TabMate

Name: TabMate
Rating: 3.8846153846153846 (26 reviews)
Author: Abhilash

TabMate helps you manage the tab clutter. Easily switch between tabs, save & restore set of tabs or windows, and more.

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TabMate is a powerful Chrome extension designed to help you manage tab clutter effectively and boost your productivity. It allows you to save sets of tabs or windows as "stashes," which you can name for easy identification and restore whenever needed. The quick switcher feature lets you search through all open tabs and saved stashes to jump between them instantly.

With TabMate, you can drag and drop tabs to rearrange them within windows or stashes, save sessions for research, group frequently visited pages logically, and manage your existing tabs efficiently by offloading unnecessary ones into saved sessions. This results in a tidy browsing experience and helps you stay organized while working or researching online.

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By:

Abhilash

Users:

1,000

Rating:

3.88

(26)

Version:

1.0 Last updated: 2024-06-27

Creation date:

2019-01-13

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
contextMenus
storage
offscreen

Size:

159.00KB

Email:

ma*****@abhilashm.me

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 23,178 ▲ 437

Other rankings

#337 in Functionality & UI ▼ 2 #202 in session keyword 51 ▼ 4 #216 in restore tabs keyword 18 ▼ 2

User reviews

TabMate is praised for its effective tab management, ease of naming and retrieving saved sessions, and useful drag-and-drop features. Users appreciate its ability to work with pinned and suspended tabs. Common issues include the unexpected closing of browser windows when saving or stashing, lack of export/import functionality for sessions, and UI visibility concerns such as pale fonts and lack of dark mode. Additionally, users want better tab multi-selection and more efficient tab restoration that doesn't overload system memory. Overall, it is viewed as a flexible and handy tool with room for improvements.

Pros

Helps organize and manage browser tabs effectively by saving sessions or stashing windows.
Allows naming and easy retrieval of tab collections or sessions.
Supports drag and drop of tabs within the extension interface.
Works well with pinned and suspended tabs.
Provides options to open saved stashes in the current or a new window.

Cons

Clicking "Save Window" or stash sometimes closes the browser window unexpectedly.
Lack of export/import feature for saved sessions makes transferring between devices or browsers difficult.
User interface has visibility and usability issues, such as light text color and lack of dark/light mode options.
Multi-selection of tabs and more flexible drag and drop within windows is limited or missing.
Restoring stashed windows reloads all tabs fully, causing high memory use and potential system instability.

Recent reviews

Clicking "Save Window" closes my browser -- WTH! What application closes when you click Save? Poor design decision. I've got a bunch of tabs open and I want to save the list. Can't I just save it and keep working? No, clicking Save closes my browser. Uninstalling...

Pa*****, 2024-08-23

Ich verstehe den Sinn nicht. Die Anzeige der geöffneten TABS ist nicht kompatibel mit den auch dort angebotenen Kontextbefehlen wie Drucken. In der Druckvorschau erscheinen nicht die Inhalte der Tabs sondern nur der Anzeigedialog der Erweiterung selbst, das hilft nicht.

Ja*****, 2024-04-22

TabMate is really cool! It's like having a tidy toy box for all my internet pages. I can flip through them easily and even put some aside for later. It's super easy to find my pages again, and I get to name my collections, like my sticker albums! It makes using the computer a lot more fun and way less messy.

xi*****, 2024-01-24

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Extension safety

Risk impact

Risk impact measures the level of extra permissions an extension has access to. A low risk impact extension cannot do much harms, whereas a high risk impact extension can do a lot of damage like stealing your password, bypassing your security settings, and accessing your personal data. High risk impact extensions are not necessarily malicious. However, if they do turn malicious, they can be very harmful.

TabMate requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.

Risk likelihood

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TabMate has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

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