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Browser tab manager

Ranking updated Jul 28, 2026

For tab management controls, the strongest matches are greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender (The Great Suspender is a Chrome extension focused on), drive4ik/simple-tab-groups (Simple Tab Groups is a browser extension that organizes) and sienori/tab-session-manager (Tab Session Manager is a browser extension that handles). josh-berry/tab-stash and alyssaxuu/omni round out the shortlist. Each is ranked by relevance to your query, popularity and recent activity.

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  • greatsuspender/thegreatsuspendergreatsuspender avatar

    greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender

    5,078View on GitHub↗

    The Great Suspender is a Chrome browser extension and memory optimization tool designed to manage browser tab states and reduce system resource consumption. It functions as a browser tab manager that frees up system RAM by freezing dormant browser pages. The tool improves browser performance and stability by suspending inactive tabs to limit the number of active processes running in the background. It reduces overall memory and CPU usage by freezing tabs until a user interacts with them again. The extension handles browser memory management and performance optimization through the monitoring

    The Great Suspender is a Chrome extension focused on memory saving through tab suspension, making it a valuable tool for managing heavy tab loads though it lacks broader session management features.

    JavaScriptResource-Based Tab SuspensionTab Management
    View on GitHub↗5,078
  • drive4ik/simple-tab-groupsDrive4ik avatar

    Drive4ik/simple-tab-groups

    1,379View on GitHub↗

    Simple Tab Groups is a browser extension designed to manage, organize, and persist collections of open tabs. It functions as a session manager that allows users to categorize web pages into named groups, enabling them to switch between different browsing contexts by hiding or restoring sets of tabs. The tool ensures workspace continuity by automatically saving tab group states and session metadata to local storage, allowing for recovery after browser restarts. The extension distinguishes itself through integrated support for browser-level identity containers, allowing users to associate speci

    Simple Tab Groups is a browser extension that organizes and persists collections of tabs into named sessions with local storage support, fitting the search for tab management tools well despite lacking explicit memory saving.

    JavaScriptTab GroupingBrowser Session Management
    View on GitHub↗1,379
  • sienori/tab-session-managersienori avatar

    sienori/Tab-Session-Manager

    2,384View on GitHub↗

    Tab-Session-Manager is a browser extension designed to capture, organize, and restore window and tab configurations. It functions as a utility for maintaining workflow continuity by serializing the state of open browser sessions into structured data, which is then stored locally to ensure availability across browser restarts. The extension distinguishes itself through automated background orchestration, which monitors browser lifecycle events to trigger state snapshots without requiring manual intervention. It supports the preservation of complex tab group structures, ensuring that categorize

    Tab Session Manager is a browser extension that handles session management and window configuration storage, fulfilling several core tab organization needs while omitting features like tab suspension.

    JavaScriptTab GroupingBrowser Session Management
    View on GitHub↗2,384
  • josh-berry/tab-stashjosh-berry avatar

    josh-berry/tab-stash

    1,048View on GitHub↗

    Tab Stash is a browser extension designed to manage, categorize, and archive collections of open browser tabs. By capturing active web pages and organizing them into structured bookmark folders, the tool enables users to declutter their workspaces while maintaining a persistent history of their browsing sessions. The extension distinguishes itself by leveraging native browser infrastructure for its core operations. It utilizes the built-in bookmarking system as a persistent storage layer and relies on native cloud synchronization services to propagate saved tab collections across multiple dev

    Tab Stash is a browser extension that organizes, archives, and manages open tabs using native bookmarks, covering session management and organization features well though lacking memory suspension.

    TypeScriptBrowser Session Management
    View on GitHub↗1,048
  • alyssaxuu/omnialyssaxuu avatar

    alyssaxuu/omni

    7,799View on GitHub↗

    Omni is a browser-based productivity automation tool that operates as a local extension. It provides a command-palette interface to execute workspace actions and manage browsing sessions through text-based inputs. The system allows for local-source sideloading, enabling the software to run from a local directory rather than through a centralized extension marketplace. Capabilities cover browser tab management, including programmatically switching and organizing pages. It also includes tools for bookmark organization and history search, allowing users to filter and retrieve saved pages or pre

    Omni is a browser extension that provides a command-palette interface for tab and workspace management, matching the visitor's need for tab control and search though lacking dedicated session suspension features.

    JavaScriptTab Management
    View on GitHub↗7,799
  • piroor/treestyletabpiroor avatar

    piroor/treestyletab

    3,761View on GitHub↗

    TreeStyleTab is a browser tab tree manager and hierarchical tab organizer that replaces the native horizontal tab strip with a vertical sidebar. It organizes open tabs into a parent-child tree structure, allowing users to manage large numbers of tabs through nesting and collapsible branches. The project distinguishes itself by offering a CSS-customizable interface, enabling deep visual modifications of tab layouts and colors via custom stylesheets. It also provides a programmatic browser tab API extension that allows other add-ons to monitor and modify tab hierarchy and sidebar behavior. The

    TreeStyleTab is a browser extension that organizes numerous open tabs into a vertical parent-child tree structure for hierarchical tab management, though it focuses primarily on tree layout rather than general session management.

    JavaScriptTab GroupingTab Search & Switching
    View on GitHub↗3,761
  • tridactyl/tridactyltridactyl avatar

    tridactyl/tridactyl

    6,246View on GitHub↗

    Tridactyl is a Vim-like Firefox extension that provides a comprehensive keyboard-driven interface for browsing, tab management, and page interaction. It replaces traditional mouse-based navigation with Vim-style keybindings, an ex-mode command line, and a hint overlay system for selecting and interacting with page elements. The extension is built around a core infrastructure that includes a modal command parser, a keybinding configuration system, and a content-script command bridge for executing commands in page context. The extension distinguishes itself through its deep integration with Fir

    Tridactyl is a keyboard-driven Firefox extension that supports tab management and command-line navigation, fitting the visitor's need for browser extensions though it lacks dedicated tab grouping and memory-saving features.

    TypeScriptTab GroupingTab Discard OperationsTab-to-Group Moves
    View on GitHub↗6,246
  • babyman/quick-tabs-chrome-extensionbabyman avatar

    babyman/quick-tabs-chrome-extension

    1,020View on GitHub↗

    Quick Tabs Chrome Extension is a browser tab manager extension and popup navigation interface inspired by Integrated Development Environment quick-open dialogs. It operates as an isolated popup script communicating with background processes to query and control browser state, displaying all open browser tabs across windows in recently used order for rapid switching. The extension provides fuzzy search filtering to process user queries against a combined index of tabs, bookmarks, and history using string distance algorithms. It organizes flat tab lists into nested trees representing parent bro

    This repository provides a quick tab list and switch plugin for the browser that lets you search and navigate open tabs efficiently, though it lacks session management and memory saving features.

    JavaScriptTab Search & Switching
    View on GitHub↗1,020
  • soffes/hotkeysoffes avatar

    soffes/HotKey

    1,077View on GitHub↗

    HotKey is a developer library for registering system-wide keyboard shortcuts in macOS applications. It binds modifier keys and key codes to system-wide identifiers using native operating system event hooks, allowing applications to respond to key combinations while running in the background. The library executes custom closures asynchronously when native keyboard monitor notifications match registered global shortcut signatures. It handles both press and release events, and automatically unregisters system hot key bindings during object deallocation to prevent stale event listeners and memory

    HotKey is a system-wide keyboard shortcut library for macOS rather than a browser tab manager, making it a lower-level building block you might use to build such a tool rather than the application itself.

    SwiftGlobal Keyboard ShortcutsGlobal Keyboard Shortcuts
    View on GitHub↗1,077
  • refined-github/refined-githubrefined-github avatar

    refined-github/refined-github

    31,531View on GitHub↗

    Refined GitHub is a browser extension enhancement suite designed to improve developer productivity by augmenting the native web interface of code hosting platforms. It functions as a modular framework that injects custom JavaScript and stylesheets directly into the browser context, allowing for real-time manipulation of the page structure and visual design. The project distinguishes itself through a declarative architecture that monitors the document for structural changes, enabling it to dynamically patch interface elements as users navigate. By intercepting native event flows and applying c

    Refined GitHub is a browser extension that enhances developer productivity on code hosting platforms rather than a tool for organizing, searching, and managing numerous open browser tabs or windows.

    TypeScriptBrowser Extensions
    View on GitHub↗31,531
  • vincelwt/chatgpt-macvincelwt avatar

    vincelwt/chatgpt-mac

    6,284View on GitHub↗

    This is a macOS menubar application that provides a desktop client for ChatGPT, designed for quick, always-available access. It lives in the system menubar and can be triggered with a global keyboard shortcut from any application, bringing the ChatGPT chat window to the foreground without disrupting your workflow. The app runs as a persistent background menubar application with a native icon that supports dark mode and accessibility tinting. It uses a single frameless Electron window that shows or hides without reloading the page, and remembers its screen position and size across launches. A

    This is a desktop ChatGPT client for the macOS menubar rather than a browser tab and window management tool.

    JavaScriptGlobal Keyboard ShortcutsGlobal Keyboard Shortcuts
    View on GitHub↗6,284
Compare the top 10 at a glance
RepositoryStarsLanguageLicenseLast push
greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender5.1KJavaScriptGPL-2.0Aug 11, 2023
drive4ik/simple-tab-groups1.4KJavaScriptMPL-2.0Jun 1, 2026
sienori/tab-session-manager2.4KJavaScriptMPL-2.0May 17, 2026
josh-berry/tab-stash1KTypeScriptMPL-2.0Jun 14, 2026
alyssaxuu/omni7.8KJavaScriptMITJan 11, 2024
piroor/treestyletab3.8KJavaScriptNOASSERTIONJun 22, 2026
tridactyl/tridactyl6.2KTypeScriptNOASSERTIONJun 19, 2026
babyman/quick-tabs-chrome-extension1KJavaScriptBSD-3-ClauseSep 17, 2025
soffes/hotkey1.1KSwiftMITDec 29, 2024
refined-github/refined-github31.5KTypeScriptMITJun 16, 2026

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