I keep a lot of tabs open. On calls I keep jumping back to the same tab—the deck, the doc, the dashboard—and with a dozen tabs from the same site they all look identical. Pinning helps until I forget what's pinned where.
Home Tab is a small Chrome extension that remembers one tab as your home. Click the icon (or use a keyboard shortcut) to jump there. If you closed it, it can open again to the URL you saved. There's also a shortcut to bounce back to the tab you were just on.
Features
- Set a home tab — Mark whatever tab you're on as "home" from the toolbar or a shortcut.
- Jump home — Instantly focus your home tab from anywhere in the window.
- Back to recent — Return to the tab you came from after jumping home.
- Keyboard shortcuts (defaults; change them in
chrome://extensions/shortcuts): - Open Home Tab —
Alt+Shift+H(Windows/Linux),Ctrl+Shift+H(Mac — Control, not Command) - Back to Most Recent Tab —
Alt+Shift+B/Ctrl+Shift+B - Set current tab as Home Tab —
Alt+Shift+S/Ctrl+Shift+S - Options page — Tweak behavior from the extension's options (opens in a tab).
How to use it
- Install from the Chrome Web Store using the button above.
- Open the tab you want as "home" and use Set current tab as Home Tab (extension menu or shortcut).
- Whenever you're lost in the tab bar, trigger Open Home Tab.
- Use Back to Most Recent when you want to return to where you were before the jump.
Source for the extension lives in this repo under apps/chrome_extensions/home_tab/ if you want to audit or fork it.