glimpse

Visual tab manager
What is glimpse?
glimpse is a visual tab manager that provides a grid view of all your tabs, allowing you to move, copy, save, and delete groups of tabs. It also offers search functionality to quickly find what you need. With hotkeys and various selection options, glimpse simplifies tab management for a more organized browsing experience.

Extension stats

By: glimpse
Users: 85 ▼ -12
Rating: 5.00 (1)
Version: 0.0.0.1 (Last updated: 2022-08-16)
Creation date: 2022-08-16
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Overrides new tab: Yes
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • webNavigation
  • bookmarks
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 335.87K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
Want to check extension ranking and stats more quickly for other Chrome extensions? Install Chrome-Stats extension to view Chrome-Stats data as you browse the Chrome Web Store.

Extension summary

glimpse is a visual tab manager. See all your tabs in a grid; easily move, copy, save, and delete groups of tabs; quickly find what you need with search. Below is a guide to the features of glimpse.

Hotkeys

  • There are hotkeys for nearly all actions in glimpse. The full list can be viewed by clicking "Hotkeys" or using shift + ?

Selecting

  • Click a sidebar item to select/deselect it. You will see pages associated with selected sidebar items on the right, sorted by access time
  • Ctrl + click a page to select/deselect it
  • Shift + click to a sidebar item or page to select/deselect all items between your last selection and that item
  • Clicking "windows" or "folders" will select/deselect all sidebar items under that heading

Basic functions

  • Click a page to go to that page
  • Remove a page (close a tab, or delete a saved page) by clicking the "x"; remove all selected pages by clicking "Remove all"
  • Selected pages can be moved or copied by dragging. If "copy" is on, dragged pages will be added to the new window but will also remain in their original windows/saved folders. If "move" is on, the dragged pages will instead be closed in their original windows and deleted from their original saved folders. "Open all" is the same as dragging selected pages to the active window
See more

Extension safety

Risk impact

glimpse requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

glimpse has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Upgrade to see risk analysis details

Similar extensions

Here are some Chrome extensions that are similar to glimpse: