# TabSearch

> Easy tab search & management. Get a keyboard-accessible search interface for managing your tabs.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tab\_search](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tab_search)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tab_search`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Enrico Baculinao
- **Category:** other,tabs
- **Daily users:** 2,013
- **Weekly downloads:** 35
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (114 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.6.2
- **Last updated:** 2026-02-07
- **First published:** 2017-07-04
- **Size:** 128 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab_search/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/issues](https://github.com/reblws/tab-search/issues)

## Description

**TabSearch** is a powerful Chrome extension designed to simplify tab management through a keyboard-accessible interface with customizable shortcuts. It provides extensive configuration options, enabling users to efficiently search open tabs, bookmarks, history, and recently closed tabs. Visual indicators show the number of tabs open per window, helping to keep browsing organized.

With handy features like tab deletion, refreshing, pinning, URL copying, and muting audible tabs—all accessible via intuitive keyboard shortcuts—TabSearch enhances productivity and browsing experience. Privacy is respected with no browsing data saved, and the extension is open source, encouraging community contributions. Regular updates bring new functionalities and improvements. Ideal for power users looking to streamline tab navigation and management.

## Rankings

- #2,165 — Overall
- #182 — Tabs
- #344 — Other extensions
- #17 — default search
- #20 — searchable
- #20 — tabellenkalkulation

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`
- `sessions`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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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## Review summary

TabSearch is widely praised for making tab navigation faster and easier in Firefox, especially with many tabs or windows. Users call it intuitive and among the best tab-search tools, with a clean UI that fills a missing browser feature. Common drawbacks reported by multiple reviews include: keyboard shortcuts not working or not configurable; settings not persisting after restart; UI issues such as excessive spacing and lack of a dark theme; missing UI options like a sidebar or quick-access button, and occasional focus or search quirks. Overall, it’s highly valued but with bug reports and feature requests that indicate ongoing improvements.

### Pros

- Significantly speeds up tab navigation and switching in Firefox, especially with many tabs or windows.
- Intuitive and convenient to use, often described as among the best tab-search tools with a clean UI.
- Fills a missing browser feature by providing built-in tab search that improves overall tab management.

### Cons

- Keyboard shortcuts often do not work or cannot be customized.
- Settings do not persist across browser restarts, requiring reconfiguration.
- UI issues such as excessive spacing, lack of a dark theme, and limited popup sizing.
- Missing UI options like a sidebar or quick-access button, and occasional focus/search quirks.

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