# Email Tabs

> Compose an email from your tabs

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/email-tabs](https://chrome-stats.com/d/email-tabs)

## Overview

- **ID:** `email-tabs`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Mozilla Test Pilot
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 576
- **Weekly downloads:** 4
- **Rating:** 4.10 / 5 (30 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.2.526resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-26
- **First published:** 2019-01-22
- **Size:** 269 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/email-tabs/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/mozilla/email-tabs](https://github.com/mozilla/email-tabs)

## Description

**Email Tabs** is a Chrome extension designed to simplify sharing and saving your open browser tabs. Whether you're researching, shopping, or casually browsing, Email Tabs helps you compile your tabs into a well-formatted email directly in Gmail. You can seamlessly include links, screenshots, or article text from your open tabs to create rich, informative messages.

This extension integrates smoothly with the Gmail webmail client, enhancing your productivity by making it effortless to share multiple tabs with colleagues, friends, or yourself. Save time and avoid manually copying URLs by letting Email Tabs automate the process, helping you organize your browsing sessions efficiently.

## Rankings

- #4,600 — Overall
- #6 — export emails
- #6 — polished emails
- #7 — email
- #27 — hotmail
- #44 — mail

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `activeTab`
- `tabs`
- `clipboardRead`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `notifications`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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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## Review summary

Users repeatedly praise Email Tabs for easily emailing multiple open tabs and for including full article text (handy for research/newsletters). Common complaints—appearing in several reviews—are that it’s Gmail-only, has issues with multi-account/container setups, and can fail or perform poorly with large numbers of tabs.

### Pros

- Sends multiple open tabs/links in a single email (convenient for research or sharing lists).
- Can include the full article text for tabs, useful for saving and later searching content.
- Lets you pick which open tabs to include, making it handy for newsletters or curated link lists.

### Cons

- Works only with Gmail / a very limited set of mail providers (no Outlook/Thunderbird support).
- Compatibility issues reported with multi-account setups or Firefox Multi-Account Containers / multiple Gmail accounts.
- Reliability and performance problems for some users—fails for some setups and may struggle with very large numbers of tabs.

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