# Pin Tabs

> Pins homepage URLs as tabs

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `pin-tabs`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Thomas
- **Category:** privacy-security,other,tabs
- **Daily users:** 60
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 3.22 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.1resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-05-02
- **First published:** 2017-11-29
- **Size:** 11 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/pin-tabs/)
- **Website:** [https://bitbucket.org/ntists02/pintabs](https://bitbucket.org/ntists02/pintabs)

## Description

Pin Tabs is a Firefox add-on that enables users to have their homepages as pinned tabs when they start Firefox. It changes the homepage tabs to be pinned tabs and includes a toolbar button to pin all existing tabs. This add-on is inspired by the App Tab Initializer plugin.

## Rankings

- #14,784 — Overall
- #112 — homepage
- #245 — new tabs

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/pin-tabs)