Tab Pinner (Keyboard Shortcuts)

Pin or Unpin a tab easily from the keyboard.

What is Tab Pinner (Keyboard Shortcuts)?

Tab Pinner (Keyboard Shortcuts) is a Chrome extension designed to simplify the pinning and unpinning of tabs. It doesn't require special permissions or inject anything into the page. The key binding is customizable. Its default combination is Ctrl + Shift + X (or Command + Shift + X for Mac OS X). Users can change this shortcut through the extensions page. The extension also supports pinning or unpinning all tabs in a window simultaneously, an update added in response to user suggestions. The extension's code is publicly available on Github.

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By: Brandon Buck

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Users: 10,000+

Rating: 4.78 (125)

Version: 1.2 (Last updated: 2023-11-20)

Creation date: 2018-04-27

Risk impact: Very low risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Size: 12.83K

Email: 00*****@icloud.com

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# 7663 ▼ 24

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#2679 in Tools ▼ 5

#24 in shortcut keyword 35 ▼ 4

#53 in keyboard keyword 41 ▼ 3

#72 in come keyword 7 ▼ 1

#88 in command keyword 9

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Extension summary

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It's annoying to have to right click a tab and choose "Pin Tab," and slows down your browsing workflow. This extension seeks to solve that by adding in a simple key binding for doing just that: Pinning and Unpinning tabs while browsing.

The default key binding is Ctrl + Shift + X (or Command + Shift + X on Mac OS X).

This extension requires no special permissions and doesn't inject anything into a page, the key binding is configurable from your extensions page so you can bind this to whatever you feel comfortable typing regularly.

To edit keybindings click the menu icon in the top left to open the sidebar and select "Keyboard Shortcuts." Or, you can navigate to chrome://extensions/shortcuts with your address bar.

Once you've got it set up the way you want to get to pinning those tabs quickly and easily!

November 27, 2017 Note

I've uploaded the source for this extension (extremely small) to Github. If you're interested to see what it takes to make this thing tick check out the "tab_pinner.js" file, if you want to make changes just make a PR with your proposed update. Enjoy!

User reviews

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Pros

Extremely useful for developers and frequent users
Keyboard shortcuts enhance productivity
Open source/MIT licensed, allowing customization

Cons

Some users experienced issues with the extension being greyed out or not working
Lack of functionality for bulk tab pinning (e.g., pin all tabs in one window)
Default keyboard shortcuts not set up correctly for all users

Most mentioned

Works great
Requests for 'pin all'/'unpin all' functionality
Need for selected tab pinning

Recent reviews

Thanks for your willingness to fix! I use this ALL the time.

Tim Dorsch, 2024-10-23

This is one of the best and most useful extensions in the chrome web store and has been for as long as I can remember being a developer. I've downloaded the source code and looked through every line. Sad to see it being removed.