# Tabby - Window & Tab Manager

> Tabby helps you manage a lot of windows and tabs easily; it can help you open, close, move, pin, and do many other things on tabs and windows quickly. With Tabby, you can even save all you windows and tabs for later with just one click!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tabby-window-tab-manager](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tabby-window-tab-manager)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tabby-window-tab-manager`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** BillK
- **Category:** search-tools,tabs
- **Daily users:** 13,255
- **Weekly downloads:** 92
- **Rating:** 4.18 / 5 (217 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.2.1
- **Last updated:** 2024-09-24
- **First published:** 2018-04-14
- **Size:** 18 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tabby-window-tab-manager/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Bill13579/tabby](https://github.com/Bill13579/tabby)

## Description

**Tabby** is a powerful and easy-to-use Window & Tab Manager for Chrome that helps users manage multiple browser windows and tabs efficiently. It offers quick actions such as opening, closing, moving, and pinning tabs and windows. Users can drag tabs to move them, open the last used tab or window via simple keyboard shortcuts, and organize their workflow with multiple layouts including Popup, Window, Tab, and Sidebar.

A standout feature is the ability to save all current windows and tabs for later with just one click, keeping your browsing sessions organized and accessible. Tabby supports advanced search with Rust-flavored regex syntax, and provides extensive keyboard shortcuts and multi-selection tools to enhance productivity. Privacy-conscious and fully open-source, Tabby stores saved data locally or via sync storage based on user preferences, ensuring security and transparency. For updates and contributions, visit the [GitHub repository](https://github.com/Bill13579/tabby). This extension is free and continuously improved to make Chrome tab management seamless and intuitive.

## Rankings

- #665 — Overall
- #13 — Search Tools
- #21 — Tabs
- #1 — cmd/ctrl+m
- #1 — windows
- #7 — manage

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `cookies`
- `contextMenus`
- `webNavigation`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `contextualIdentities`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very 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 medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

User feedback highlights Tabby as a useful and accessible window and tab manager appreciated for its simplicity, with several reviewers choosing it for daily use. However, reliability problems with moving tabs and occasional compatibility issues (notably on LM22.2) recur across multiple reviews. UI quirks like a scrollbar covering the close button and a lack of group-based tab filtering are also noted, along with some confusion around renaming windows. Improvements in reliability, compatibility, and feature parity would make Tabby a more consistently strong option.

### Pros

- Useful and helpful for managing windows and tabs
- Easy to use and lightweight with a simple, accessible interface
- Accessible visuals that aid navigation for users with visual fatigue
- Generally good tool for window and tab management

### Cons

- Tabs moving between windows is unreliable or breaks in several cases
- Compatibility issues on some systems/versions (for example LM22.2)
- Scrollbar covers the close button, making it hard to close windows
- Lacks a feature to show only non-hidden tabs from the current group
- Renaming windows is not intuitive and requires navigating a dropdown, causing confusion

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tabby-window-tab-manager)