# Search all Tabs

> A powerful offline indexing and searching tool to find matching tabs in a popup

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `search-all-tabs`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Lunu
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 1,471
- **Weekly downloads:** 19
- **Rating:** 4.47 / 5 (36 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.3
- **Last updated:** 2025-07-05
- **First published:** 2018-12-27
- **Size:** 874 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/search-all-tabs/)
- **Website:** [https://webextension.org/listing/search-all-tabs.html](https://webextension.org/listing/search-all-tabs.html)

## Description

**Search all Tabs** is a powerful Chrome extension designed to help you quickly locate any open tab among many. It features an offline indexing and search engine that works entirely within your browser, ensuring privacy and speed. The extension supports advanced search operators like "AND" and "OR" and can index content from around 30 languages, providing rich snippets for matching results.

Key features include copying all URLs to clipboard, grouping matched tabs into a new window, keyboard-only navigation, dark theme support, sidebar view, and deep search for multiple snippets per tab. This tool streamlines tab management without any server-side interaction, making it both efficient and secure for users juggling numerous open tabs or local files.

## Rankings

- #2,668 — Overall
- #315 — Search Tools
- #41 — search box
- #43 — search bar
- #53 — research
- #58 — new tabs

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `scripting`
- `favicon`
- `unlimitedStorage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users largely praise Search all Tabs as a very useful tool that lets you search across all open tabs quickly and privately, helping disorganized users find text fast without sending data. Recurring issues include slow indexing and searches, with some requesting an optional daemon to speed things up. UX gaps mentioned are the lack of a keyboard shortcut, results shown only as tab titles, and not searching certain content like PDFs. A few users report not being able to close found tabs from search results. Overall, strong usefulness with notable performance and UX improvements suggested.

### Pros

- Fast cross-tab search across all open tabs, saving time.
- Privacy-focused: it does not send or persist indexed data.
- Very useful for users with many tabs; helps locate text quickly.
- Highly regarded and often praised as one of the best among similar extensions.

### Cons

- Cannot close found tabs directly from the search results.
- Slow indexing/search; not instant; requests for an optional daemon to speed things up.
- Missing a keyboard shortcut to summon the search.
- Displays only tab titles in results; no page content or snippets.
- Does not search opened file types (e.g., PDFs).

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/search-all-tabs)