Tab Shelf - Side panel vertical tabs

Tab Shelf is a minimal, yet versatile, vertical tab manager for Chrome.

🤔 WHY VERTICAL TABS?

Whether you're frantically doing research for a paper, queuing up articles to read, or you just love hoarding tabs, tab management can be a pain. Having all your tabs squeezed at the top of your window makes it hard to remember what tabs you have and to quickly navigate between them.

Being able to persistently view all your tabs in a convenient, colorful, and customizable vertical view takes that headache away!

⭐️ FEATURES

- View and manage your tabs conveniently from the side panel.
- Use rules to automatically group tabs from specific websites.
- Choose from amongst 20 colors to differentiate your tab groups.
- Quickly search or filter your tabs by group, window, or whether they've got audio playing.
- Sleep your tabs to save memory and energy.
- Sync your settings and grouping rules via your Google account across your other computers.
- Light and dark themes to match your browser, plus 20 accent colors to give your Tab Shelf some flair.

🌏 TRANSLATIONS

Tab Shelf is also available in 17 languages - English, Chinese (Simplified), Japanese, Korean, Malay, Indonesian, Vietnamese, Thai, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Hungarian.

🔐 PRIVACY POLICY

Please read Tab Shelf's privacy policy (which can be found at: https://www.tabshelf.com/privacy-policy) to understand how Tab Shelf prioritizes responsible permissions usage and user privacy. Tab Shelf does not and will never collect your data.

🛠️ USAGE

You can launch Tab Shelf in a number of ways:
1. Opening the Chrome side panel via the toolbar button (on the right-hand side, next to your profile button) and selecting Tab Shelf.
2. Pinning the Tab Shelf extension button to the toolbar. This allows you to open Tab Shelf in a single click.

You can also use the default keyboard shortcut to quickly open Tab Shelf:
* On Windows/Linux: Ctrl + Shift + P
* On macOS: Command + Shift + P

For a more detailed user guide, please visit:
https://tabshelf.com/user-guide

Disclaimer: This extension requires at least Chrome 114 in order for side panel integration to work.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.8
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BUG FIXES

- Fixed issue where muted audio indicator appears for all tabs except for muted tabs when muting a tab.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.7
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IMPROVEMENTS

- Significant performance improvements for tab event handling and drag-and-drop.

BUG FIXES

- Fixed issue that caused the window filter to switch to the last active window instead of the current window when switching window focus.

DEPRECATED FEATURES

- Deprecated scroll position restoration. When opening Tab Shelf, the tab list will now automatically scroll to the active tab.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.6
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BUG FIXES

- Replace default keyboard shortcut for 'Move tab to...' menu (Ctrl/CMd+Shift+I) to prevent clash with formatting keyboard shortcuts in productivity web apps. The new default keyboard shortcut is Alt+M (you may need to manually change this if you had v2024.3.5 previously installed).

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.5
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NEW FEATURES

- Keyboard shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd + I) to open the 'Move tab to...' menu for the current active tab.
- Keyboard shortcut (Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Space) to trigger tab selection mode.
- Discarded/sleeping tab will now show a 'Wake tab' option in place of 'Sleep tab' when hovering over it in the list (coffee mug icon instead of the crescent icon) or in the tab's context menu.
- Even more compact pinned tabs mode (Appearance --> 'Reduce spacing in pinned tabs compact view.').
- Auto-hide toolbars mode to hide toolbars when cursor is not in the side panel (Behavior --> 'Auto-hide toolbars when cursor is not in side panel.').

BUG FIXES

- Fixed issue where the color selection in the 'Create tab group' menu is not respected.
- Fixed missing translations for 'Save' button for text field options in the Settings menu.
- Fixed missing translations for 'Tab Control Buttons' and 'Tab Group Header Buttons' group titles in the Settings menu.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.4
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IMPROVEMENTS

- Make tab group names more visible for lighter custom tab group colors.

BUG FIXES

- Fix custom tab group color mapping persistence across sessions (e.g. rebooting after an update). If a group is not restored in a month, the custom tab group color mapping will be expired (base browser tab group colors would be used instead).

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.3
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NEW FEATURES

- Added Czech, Slovak, Polish, and Hungarian as language options.

IMPROVEMENTS

- Welcome/Onboarding page has been completely redesigned with greater emphasis on privacy information.
- What's New page has been moved into the side panel as a pop-up modal. This will be less disruptive to your session.
- Settings and grouping rules sync now attempts to save new changes immediately.
- Added a note in the Settings modal on how the browser control's account syncing frequency, not Tab Shelf.
- Privacy and permissions (including the new nutrition facts sheet) can now be seen directly within Tab Shelf via the Settings modal.
- Uninstalling Tab Shelf will now show an uninstall survey. Filling it out is optional, but it would help greatly with figuring out issues that users don't usually report.
- Added links to the feedback form and extensions store pages to encourage users to submit more feedback and reviews.
- Sleep option in tab context menu will now be disabled if the tab is already put to sleep/discarded.

BUG FIXES

- Grouping rules execution should no longer cause the main Chrome/Edge process to spin up to 100% CPU usage.
- Grouping rules execution should now be triggered when moving tabs out of tab groups.
- Grouping rules execution should now be triggered when dragging and dropping tabs within a window or between windows.
- Bookmarks and open sites selector in Grouping Rules should now close when clicking on the 'Add' button.
- Debouncing method used to prevent grouping rules from executing after every tab event. This should reduce CPU usage and prevent multiple identical tab groups from being created when restoring a closed session.
- Selecting a bookmarks folder in the bookmarks selector in Grouping Rules should now exclude already-included sites.
- When using the 'Move tabs to...' option from the tab context menu, selecting the option to move tabs to a new window and create a new group should no longer move the tabs first. The new group information would need to be filled in and confirmed before the tabs are moved.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.2
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IMPROVEMENTS

- Reliance on permissions for the clipboard and user identity have been removed. Syncing options will now be toggle-able by all users regardless of login state.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.1
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Please note that v2024.3.1 was just a re-labelled v2024.2.2. v2024.3.0 was rolled-back while a change to remove the reliance on clipboard and identity permissions was being worked on.

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CHANGELOG - v2024.3.0
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NEW FEATURES

- Ability to import/export settings and grouping rules.
- Ability to sync settings and grouping rules via your browser sync account.
- Regular expression and wildcard support for grouping rules.
- Add sites to a grouping rule from your bookmarks and open tabs.

IMPROVEMENTS

- Tabs are now tinted with the color of the tab group they belong to. This could be disabled in settings.
- Improved visibility of the tab group visibility toggle for tab groups without a name.
- Update availability message will now appear if a new version of Tab Shelf is available (frequency of checks depends on your browser).
- Grouping rule creation and editing has been redesigned to be more streamlined.
- Added a "Open Tab Shelf" button in the Welcome page.

BUG FIXES

- When compact pinned tabs are enabled, the favicon was not shown if favicons were disabled for the tab list. This has been fixed to always show favicons even if favicons are disabled.
- Button to jump to the current active tab previously changed the window filter to whichever window had the last active tab. This has been fixed to always show the active tab in the current window.
- Language picker was previously not visible in the Welcome page to users with a fresh install of Tab Shelf.