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Switch Workstation Tab Manager

by switchextension

v3.8.8 Updated May 16, 2025 7.88MiB
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β˜… 3.75
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Description

Switch adds a sidebar to your Chrome browser and gives you a set of productivity tools that make it easier to switch between apps, accounts, and workflows. Unlike desktop workstations, Switch runs inside your Chrome web browser so you can manage all your web applications without sacrificing flexibility and features. Using the Switch Sidebar helps you to become ultra-productive in the browser with the following features: 🧠 Tab Management Smart tab management with the Switch sidebar – avoid tab overload and keep track of your browsing with tab stacking. πŸ™ Multi-Account Management Switch lets you log in and use multiple accounts (e.g. Gmail, Facebook, Instagram, etc) for a single website directly from the Switch extension - helping you to focus on the tasks that matter. πŸ“š Organise your workflow Organise the internet your way with Spaces – sort information into projects for everything you can think of. 🌟 Favourites & Notifications Save important web applications as favorites and they'll stay in the sidebar even after you close them. Open them with 1 click, and see instant notifications badges in the Sidebar from your favorite communication apps (i.e. Slack, Gmail, Messenger, Outlook). πŸ” Active Search Find your active tabs with a simple text search and see them listed chronologically for easy access. You can create up to 2 Spaces and save up to 2 Favourites in our free version. We also offer a Switch Pro subscription plan with unlimited functionality and the following advanced features: πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Advanced Search Quickly find any tab from your history with our keyword search. Switch uses a flexible search algorithm that makes finding what you need fast and easy. πŸ—‚ Document Management Search With our filters, you can easily search through your Google Drive accounts. All Docs, Sheets, Slides show up and are sorted chronologically, meaning you can find and manage your documents in seconds. πŸ„ Tab Flow Whether you're comparing multiple tabs or responding to a loved one on Facebook, easily switch back and forth between your recent tabs with Switch Tab History and get back into the flow. When logging in, we will ask you to verify your email address. Your email address is only used to log you in to your account and for email updates about the product. You can read our full privacy policy here: https://www.switchextension.com/privacy-policy/ -------------- Permissions When you install Switch you’ll be asked for the following permissions: "Read and change all your data on the websites that you visit": Switch needs this so that you can manage your tabs in the Sidebar. "Read and change your browsing history": Switch needs this so that you can access your search history for our Power Search feature. "Manage your apps, extensions, and themes": Switch needs this to manage multi-account login preferences -------------- If you have any questions, comments, or issues with Switch or your Switch plan, please send us an email at: support@switchextension.com
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Reviews (22 cached)

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2025-08-04
B B

This doesn't work. And from looking at other reviews, it's cause it was abandoned a few years ago.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2024-08-08
Khaled Abushqear

need an alternative for sessionbox, this plugin could be much much better

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2024-04-15
Bob Simmons

!!!!! DO NOT INSTALL, EXTENSION HAS BEEN ABANDONED !!!!!| No longer works with Google sign-in. It's pretty obvious that this developer took the money and ran and just completely abandoned this. "Your message wasn't delivered to support@swtichextension.com because the domain swtichextension.com couldn't be found. Check for typos or unnecessary spaces and try again."

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2023-07-11
Joe Pierce

!!!!! DO NOT INSTALL, EXTENSION HAS BEEN ABANDONED !!!!! Developer has ABANDONED this extension and is ignoring requests to cancel the Pro plan from myself and other users.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2023-06-27
Michael Jennings

BEWARE!! This is ABANDONWARE, and the developer is either unable or unwilling to respond to requests to cancel the pro plan!!! I had to CANCEL MY DEBIT CARD and get a new one because its been months and they won't stop charging! I'm going to do everything possible to get Google to take action here.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2023-06-08
Tal N

doesn't work. asks you to pay for full features.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2022-02-14
Roland Ryan

Multiple accounts seem to work for everything but the only website I want to use it with - Discord. :(

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2021-04-21
Kenneth Atkinson

Rating a 1. The extension itself isn't terrible, but if you pay for the Pro plan, there's no way to cancel if you want out other than sending an email, and if your experience is anything like mine, you will NOT get you plan switched back to free and you WILL continue to be billed. Avoid. A scam as far as I'm concerned.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2021-02-17
Hari Prakash

Hello! This chrome extension does not work on a Brave Browser (Chromium Based).

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2020-12-22
JY

I just downloaded it on a MacBook Air and it doesn't work at all, can't open or use it. I guess only you'll only be able to use it if you pay. Uninstalling.

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2020-07-06
Chicong Nguyen

ok

β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†β˜†2019-08-05
John Martin

Not free because it's a completely pointless piece of garbage if you don't pay them money.

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2022-05-02
Marco Vantroba

I liked the idea and also the videos i've seen. But sadly nearly ALL my tabs that i am opening are loading and loading and spinning and loading. After deactivating the extension, all pages i'm opening are instantly there. Sad. Looked promising. Deinstalling now... :'(

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2021-02-11
Steffen H

I was hoping you would having to keep all your tabs open with this extension, but you still have to have your tabs open for it to work. I guess I just don't have enough tabs open at one time to make it work. Although at the time of writing this review, I do have over 25 tabs open. But with a 27" iMac, it's not too much to not see them. I guess I'm just not the target audience for this extension. I don't see the value in it. It also does not work on most websites correctly. Websites will be bouncing side to side as your scroll as they try and resize because of this workspace taking up some of the side of the window. Or words on the edge will be cut off. On Switch's own website, their install link at the top right was halfway cut due to this extension being on. I guess I can see how it's good for some, but unless you have 100 tabs open on a 13" laptop, I don't think it's worth it.

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2020-07-06
Michelle

Too slow and bulky. Just a glorified tab organizer when used without a paid subscription. For that use, I'd reccomend the far faster Aerys extension.

β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†β˜†2019-08-04
Karthik

Nothing you will get for free, the least you have to give them your email address to try atleast what the extension does and its really irritating. The price is too high atleast for a person living in a third world country. Replaces your new tab setup without any heads up. Extension seems to be promising but the developers are very aggressive in getting what they want.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2022-01-07
Zoc Hsieh

It's invalid after 2021/12/14.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2021-05-23
Lawrence Lam

I installed this extension for a few weeks until I realized it has glitches that prevented displaying some websites. For example, with this extension installed, the simple front page at https://www.java.com/en/ is showing a blank page. I have repeatedly tested installing/uninstalling this extension. Whenever it is installed, the java.com and some other websites failed to load.

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2021-03-12
Peter Lee Budi Banjarmasin

keeps getting a pop up to either pay a monthy fee, annual fee, or sign up for a 14 day trial. please make it possible to stop this constant pop up. it's very very distracting. thank you

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2020-10-16
J K

Good idea, but not exactly working, because I need to zoom in some websites and this bar also got zoomed in and things fall apart.I need constant size for this bar. Also I need an option to hide it by default

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2020-07-04
Al

It's a good exstention but does not work well with microsoft edge. do you think that you could fix that?

β˜…β˜…β˜…β˜†β˜†2019-07-20
Dale B

Finally a good tab manager! Really digging this and glad I found it. It would be 5 stars if it didn't cost so much! I am SUPER disappointed to see the pro features are $29/year or $3/month. Even my antivirus and malware protection programs don't cost that much with the promo deals they offer. Sorry, but this kind of software is a nice to have kind of thing and you need to offer way more to charge that much. I'd consider $10-20 for a lifetime like a few others but that's it. Update: I've been using this now for over a month and I really like a lot of things about it and it has a ton of potential. I still think its costs too much and thus haven't purchased. I may delete soon though because it tends to mess up the display of some websites. I find if its active the tool bar will shift over websites in weird ways. As soon as I minimize the menu the issues go away so I know its causing them. I'd almost prefer it to have an option to keep it minimized on each new page you load, or a short cut key to open it. I find myself having to close it a lot. Maybe think about moving the bar to the bottom of the page? Seems it would interfere with the DIVs less that way.

Permissions (11)

Permissions

background contextMenusβ„Ή Can add items to the right-click menu cookiesβ„Ή Can read and modify browser cookies historyβ„Ή Can read and modify your browsing history managementβ„Ή Can manage other installed extensions notificationsβ„Ή Can show desktop notifications scriptingβ„Ή Can inject scripts into web pages storageβ„Ή Can store data locally in your browser tabsβ„Ή Can see your open tabs and their URLs unlimitedStorage webRequestβ„Ή Can observe and analyze network traffic

Details

Version 3.8.8
Updated May 16, 2025
Size 7.88MiB
First Seen Mar 25, 2026