Tab Man is a Chrome extension for people who keep too many tabs open across too many windows. Click the icon (or hit Alt+Shift+T) to open a full-page manager: every tab from every window in one sortable, filterable table, plus tabs for auto-grouping rules, scheduled tab opens, and per-site daily time budgets. Every destructive action has five steps of undo.
What it does
- One table, all your tabs — sort by any column, shift-click headers to add tiebreakers, filter by title / URL / domain / group, group the view by domain, window, tab group, or age
- Multi-select with bulk actions — close N tabs, add them to an existing group, create a new Chrome tab group, or ungroup — shift-click for ranges
- Auto-group rules — match by domain or URL prefix, route tabs into colored Chrome tab groups as they navigate; drag rule cards to set precedence
- Scheduled tab opens — fire a URL into a new focused tab at a chosen time. Repeating (days of week) or one-time. Catches up if Chrome was off when the time passed
- Per-site time budgets — cap your daily minutes on a domain or URL prefix; exhausted pages redirect to a block screen with a snooze button
- Home tab — designate one tab as "home" and jump to it from anywhere; same shortcut bounces back to where you came from. Per-window mode if you want each window to have its own home
- Right-click cleanup — close this exact page, everything under
host/path/*, everything onhost, everything on*.apex-domain, OTHER tabs on this host, or duplicates — counts update live, pinned tabs are protected - Five-step undo — every close, group, ungroup, rule delete, and import can be reversed with the toast button or
⌘Z/Ctrl+Z. Closed tabs come back viachrome.sessions.restoreso history and scroll are preserved
Keyboard shortcuts
Defaults — rebind any of them at chrome://extensions/shortcuts:
| Command | Default |
|---|---|
| Open Tab Manager | Alt+Shift+T |
| Home Tab: go / toggle | Alt+Shift+H |
| Home Tab: back to recent | Alt+Shift+B |
| Home Tab: set current as home | Alt+Shift+S |
Export / import
A versioned JSON bundle round-trips your auto-group rules, schedules, budgets, and (opt-in) workspace — every open window with its tabs and groups. Import in merge mode (skips duplicates) or replace mode (wipes the section first). Workspace imports always open as new windows alongside what you've got — never destructive.
Privacy
- Zero network calls — all data stays in your browser
- No content scripts, no remote code; the manager and block screen are local extension pages
- Budget blocking uses dynamic host permissions — Chrome only grants Tab Man access to a site when you add a budget for it. Deny and time is still tracked, but the block screen can't render
Help
Something not working? apphelp@bcklg.com.