# Access Tab

> Access Tab organizes browser tabs, reduces distractions, and adds notes, productivity insights, content controls, themes, accessibility tools, and dictionary lookups.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/access-tab](https://chrome-stats.com/d/access-tab)

## Overview

- **ID:** `access-tab`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Access Tab
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,tabs
- **Version:** 2.8.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-07
- **First published:** 2025-03-08
- **Size:** 3.73 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/access-tab/)
- **Website:** [https://accesstabs.com/support/](https://accesstabs.com/support/)

## Description

Access Tab helps you organize tabs, reduce distractions, and make everyday browsing more focused and accessible.

<ul><li><strong>Smart tab organization:</strong> Group and filter tabs by category without closing or recreating them.</li><li><strong>Synchronized panel:</strong> Use one responsive Access Tab panel across tabs in each Firefox window.</li><li><strong>Content controls:</strong> Configure category filters, explicit blocklists, and allowlists.</li><li><strong>Notes and dictionary:</strong> Keep notes while browsing and look up selected words without leaving the page.</li><li><strong>Productivity insights:</strong> Review local daily, weekly, and monthly browsing trends.</li><li><strong>Accessibility and appearance:</strong> Adjust themes, brightness, contrast, fonts, focus highlighting, and color-vision filters.</li><li><strong>Multilingual interface:</strong> Available in 12 languages.</li></ul>

Browsing analytics and preferences remain in browser storage. Access Tab does not use third-party advertising trackers. When you request a dictionary lookup, only the requested word is sent to the selected dictionary provider.

## Rankings

- #139,953 — Overall
- #130 — free access

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `idle`
- `alarms`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `activeTab`
- `<all_urls>`
- `webNavigation`
- `theme`
- `contextMenus`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/access-tab)