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ProTABS - The Tab Manager for Pros

by BkWare

v3.2.4 Updated May 28, 2024 1.76MiB
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★ 3.78
37 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over a year

Description

ProTABS is an intelligent tab manager designed to to make your life easier. It's particularly useful when dealing with large amounts of tabs, empowering you to work and browse more efficiently. ProTABS effectively replaces many other extensions such as tree tabs, tab suspender, tab recycler, etc, and enables many powerful workflows such as: ▶ Pin your frequently used tabs (like email!) so you can refer back to them quickly and see any notifications at a glance. ▶ Create groups from your tabs and windows to categorise them by topic. ▶ See tabs grouped automatically by site and by topic. ▶ Save individual or groups of tabs for future reference. Star them, close them, then come back to them later! ▶ Quickly search for tabs by name, group, or by URL and switch back to them easily. 100% keyboard friendly, for the real Pro's! ▶ Rapidly switch back to your previous tab with a simple keyboard shortcut! ▶ Quickly find and restore tabs that you closed accidentally. ▶ Pop open a group of related tabs to a new window so you can focus on one topic at a time. ProTABS can also work in the background to help keep your browsing efficient by: ▶ "Pausing" tabs after period of disuse, freeing up memory and making your browser run faster! ▶ "Tidying-up" your tabs automatically after a period of disuse by Saving and then closing them automatically. We'll tidy-up your tabs so that you don't have to! Happy ProTABBING!
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Reviews (10 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2025-10-06
Ashish Alexander

bad: - does not save tab groups

★☆☆☆☆2025-09-09
S M (deraeler)

makes an already horrible tabs experience even worse. like I need new groups - it wont let me edit chrome's groups, but needs to ad and mange its own for some inexplicable reason. at least it allows me to find lost tabs that chrome wont display, for that it gets a star

★☆☆☆☆2025-01-30
bane banely

You ruined the user-friendly and extremely convenience of this extension by removing the docked popup-menu/window and replacing it with the awful free floating window. The whole reason we use extensions like this is to remove clutter. Yours adds to it now. buh bye

★☆☆☆☆2024-06-01
Julia Finarovsky

It was a perfectly fine extension until the latest update, now it's completely unusuable. Who asked you to remove features?? Who asked you to force to open in a new window?? Who asked you to remove organization by tabs? I'm done with this extension.

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-17
Ulysses Omycron

Was happy with it when it appeared to work. But as soon as the pages in my group left the Recently Closed menu of Chrome (which is when you need an extension like this to recover them), recovering them from ProTABS makes all of them be loaded in memory at once, and once you have like 70 of them the whole browser crashes and the system hangs. Wish it loaded them suspended, otherwise it's unusable.

★☆☆☆☆2019-10-26
Filipe Azevedo

Wasted many hours trying to make this thing working. Anything i do get cancelled as soon as the extension popup get hidden (like creating groups). Tabs dragged into another window is marked as moved in the popup but in reality nothing moved (and get lost when the popup re-open). What i'm doing wrong ??

★☆☆☆☆2019-04-02
Tim Shaw

Has potential but needs a lot of work, my main gripe is it is causing itself and other extensions to crash. Until this is fixed it is pointless to use. Minus 1 star for not even looking at your google group where i posted a lot of feedback. Pause functionality does not seem to work. Needs some install instructions so user knows what different statuses mean. Hope to revisit this after more work has been done.

★★★☆☆2022-03-31
Benjamin

Has all the features I need, but would like Automatic Tab Grouping to also group tabs with Chrome's built-in Tab Groups feature.

★★★☆☆2021-03-13
Party Pat

Too complicate. Just wanna move tabs between windows. I can't get the display directly, have to click the "Windows" slidedown.

★★★☆☆2019-11-20
Laura Timmel

I love the promised features, but unfortunately some of them aren't working. Most notably, when I save a window or a custom group and then close that window or group, the tabs and group are also removed from My Groups and Saved. The other issue I noticed seems to occur intermittently. When I first started using the extension, items that had been starred could not be un-starred, and nothing could be starred from the My Groups section. In the past few minutes, starring started working correctly. No idea why that happened. In addition to those apparent glitches, there is some missing functionality that I really can't do without. The order of tabs in the extension doesn't match the order of tabs in the window (which, for me, is a deal breaker for a tab organizer). Along the same lines, tabs and windows cannot be re-ordered. Also, closing a tab from the extension focuses the window it was in, and that window won't necessarily have the extension window open, making it difficult to close multiple tabs in a row. This doesn't have to do with using the extension, but... "Pro's" gets me every time. (It should be "Pros." Plural, not possessive.)

Permissions (5)

Permissions

alarms Can schedule periodic background tasks sessions Can access recently closed tabs and windows storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs webNavigation Can monitor navigation events

Details

Version 3.2.4
Updated May 28, 2024
Size 1.76MiB
First Seen Mar 25, 2026