Tabhunter

Wade through all your tabs fast
What is Tabhunter?
Tabhunter is a Chrome extension that allows power-users to efficiently manage their tabs. With features like search, bulk-close, and minimized window detection, you can easily navigate through dozens of tabs. Stay organized and in control of your browsing experience with Tabhunter.

Extension stats

Users: 369 ▼ -21
Rating: 5.00 (6)
Version: 3.6.7 (Last updated: 2024-11-12)
Creation date: 2020-07-04
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • clipboardWrite
  • storage
  • scripting
  • tabs
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 95.13K

Other platforms

Tabhunter (v3.6.7)
4.10 (29) 927
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension lets browser power-users easily juggle dozens of tabs at any time. Enter a search string (could be a standard JavaScript regex), highlight the URL you want to bring up, and press return, double-click it, or press the "Go" button. Tabhunter will even find and bring up minimized windows containing the target tab.

Tabhunter also lets you easily bulk-close large numbers of tabs. Let's say you have a bunch of github pages all related to a project we'll call "inconsolable-toucan". Enter a pattern like 'github.com/example-user/inconsolable-toucan', click on the first hit in the list, shift-click the last hit, and press the "Close Tabs" button. No-longer-needed tabs gone like that.

Bring up Tabhunter by either pressing the hunter's scope icon, or using the command-key Ctrl-Shift-T on macos, Alt-Shift-T on Linux and Windows.

Drowning in a sea of tabs? Stay afloat with Tabhunter. Users of that other browser have been happily using it since 2008. Now you Chrome folks can use it too.

Under no circumstances should this software be confused with Tab Hunter, an actor best known for his work in the mid-20th century.

Updates: 2.1.6 - support moving a group of tabs to a selected window

2.1.7 - support selecting windows in the pattern field:

  • putting {w:N} at the start of a pattern shows only tabs in window N
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User reviews

I had this installed on both of my supported browsers until my laptop died. I was missing it on the new machine, but couldn't remember the name until it came to me one morning. So this very useful tool is now on both my Firefox and Chrome browsers. I'm going to try it on Comodo Dragon which is a Chrome knockoff next and then maybe AVG browser which I think is another.
by Rick Collins, 2021-10-26

Was glad that Ghacks stumbled upon it and that it is also available for Chrome-based browsers too! ;)
by Daniel G, 2019-10-27

Great app. Thanks for writing it!
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Extension safety

Risk impact

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

Risk likelihood

Tabhunter has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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