Chrome Show Tab Numbers

A Chromium extension to show tab numbers.
What is Chrome Show Tab Numbers?
Chrome Show Tab Numbers is a handy extension for Tab Management. It prefixes a numeric index to each tab title, making each tab's number easily detectable. Users can smoothly navigate between tabs using keyboard shortcuts. You can choose to display numbers for all tabs or just the current tab. It also supports Google Chrome's collapsed tab group feature, ignoring tabs in a collapsed group. With Source Code available on GitHub, bugs can be reported transparently and feature requests can be submitted.

Extension stats

By: kg8m
Users: 2,000+
Rating: 4.57 (7)
Version: 1.5.0 (Last updated: 2024-09-16)
Creation date: 2022-04-28
Risk impact: High risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Permissions:
  • contextMenus
  • scripting
  • storage
  • tabGroups
  • tabs
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 14.73K

Other platforms

Not available on Firefox
Not available on Edge
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Extension summary

This extension shows tab numbers. In other words, this extension adds a numeric prefix before each tab title. For example, "1. GitHub," "99. Google Calendar," and so on.

With this extension, you can detect each tab's number easily and navigate between tabs with ctrl/⌘ + 1-9 keys.

Notable features:

  • This extension supports Google Chrome’s collapsed tab group feature, automatically ignoring tabs in a collapsed tab group.
  • You can toggle tab numbering for all tabs or just the current one via keyboard shortcuts or the extension’s context menu.
  • Tab numbers can be relative, displaying the current tab’s absolute number and indicating the position of other tabs relative to it ― how many tabs they are ahead or behind the current one.

This extension is an open source software. Feel free to report bugs and request features at https://github.com/kg8m/chrome-show-tab-numbers/issues .

User reviews

Doesn't renumber open tabs as you close others that I can see. Don't see any options for this either. Also leaves some tabs unnumbered for what reason I don't know.
by Eli Johnson, 2024-08-02

Just trying it now--seems to be working well!
by William Hoover, 2024-06-20

Works perfect
by Hrushikesh Mohapatra, 2024-05-07
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Extension safety

Risk impact

Chrome Show Tab Numbers is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install Chrome Show Tab Numbers if you trust the publisher.

Risk likelihood

Chrome Show Tab Numbers has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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