Simple Tab Groups

Name: Simple Tab Groups
Rating: 4.0178 (1798 reviews)
Author: Drive4ik

Create, modify, and quickly change tab groups

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Simple Tab Groups is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your browsing experience by allowing you to create, modify, and quickly switch between tab groups. It supports multiple browser windows and instances, enabling seamless navigation as windows jump to the foreground with the selected group.

Key features include a sleek new design with a dark theme and colored group icons, integration with Firefox Multi-Account Containers, support for drag & drop tab management, sorting groups, backup and restore of tabs and groups via JSON files, and customizable group icons. Additionally, it offers keyboard shortcuts for easy group and tab switching, middle-click to close tabs, and notification support for group actions. The extension also supports a sidebar for easier management and can integrate with the Gesturefy extension for enhanced control. With permissions tailored for tab management, storage, notifications, and more, Simple Tab Groups provides a comprehensive and user-friendly tool for organizing your browsing tabs efficiently.

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By:

Drive4ik

Daily users:

85,487 -1,069

Rating:

4.02

(1,798) 2 new ratings

Version:

5.3.2 Last updated: 2025-04-14

Version code:

5925543

Creation date:

2017-11-13

Risk:

Permissions:

tabs
tabHide
notifications
menus
contextualIdentities
cookies
sessions
downloads
management
webRequest

Size:

834.43KB

Email:

dr*****@protonmail.com

URLs:

Website

Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Data ingested on:

2025-07-14

Ranking

# 227 ▲ 1

Other rankings

#4 in Tabs

#8 in Other extensions

#11 in Appearance

#1 in group keyword 16

#1 in grow keyword 11

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User reviews

Simple Tab Groups is praised for its clean and effective tab organization that helps users manage and focus on their browsing tasks easily. However, multiple users report significant issues with reliability, especially losing tab groups after updates or unexpectedly, coupled with inconvenient backup management. Despite these concerns, it remains a favored tool for Firefox desktop users seeking better tab group organization, though it lacks support on Firefox Android and has some interface loading quirks.

Pros

Allows easy and clean management and switching between tab groups.
Helps users focus on tasks by organizing tabs into groups, reducing clutter.
Provides useful tools to organize tabs better than other systems.
Widely appreciated for its user-friendly interface and functionality.
Seen as a superior alternative to built-in or Chrome tab grouping solutions.

Cons

Loss of tab groups after updates, causing data loss and needing restoration from JSON backup files.
Unreliable at times; some users report the extension randomly deleting all tab groups without warning.
No option to select backup file locations; backups are saved in the download folder by default.
Doesn't work on Firefox for Android due to different tab logic.
Sidebar loading issues requiring reopening to function properly.

Recent reviews

by Ol*****, 2025-07-11

Recently Firefox added its own tab grouping feature that could synergize really well with this extension, but unfortunately there's a bug: When you create a Firefox group it also creates group collapse button for it, and when you switch to another STG group, it hides the grouped tabs but not that collapse button. Hope it gets patched, because it's a bit janky and annoying.

by Al*****, 2025-07-11

Funktion Top, einfacher Wechsel zwischen Tab-Gruppen und Managen der Tabs. Aber bei Updates schon zweimal die Tab-Gruppen verloren und nun nur noch in der JSON-Sicherung wiederfindbar und nicht importierbar oder so

by Fi*****, 2025-07-09

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Simple Tab Groups requires a lot of 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.
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Risk likelihood

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Simple Tab Groups has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

Risk likelihood analysis details

Low This extension was updated more than 6 months ago. Older versions are more likely to be stable and safe.
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