We review 12 extensions to Manage Tabs in Google Chrome

Tab handling in Google Chrome is quite bad. Have too many tabs open and you'll never be able to know which tab is which.
...And that's why we set too review All the tab manager extensions we could find to help us management our browsing mayhem. We tried to everything we could find to finally make this single page review for all your tab management needs.

Keepin' Tabs (Tab Manager) ★☆☆☆


✔ Vertically Show all tabs.
✔ Reload all tab button.
✔ Close, pin, new tab button.
☹ Group Tabs button; was not what I expected to be. It just rearranged tab location according to the URL, so same website tabs are arranged in sequence.
✖ No Searching tabs.
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Tabman Tabs Manager ★★★☆


✔ Vertically show all tabs.
✔ Ability to quickly search tabs.
✔ Can have the tab view in a new window.
✔ Shortcut to open closed the docked window.
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Tab Manager ★★☆☆


✔ views
+ Favicon only, horizontally arranged
+ Favicon only, arranged in blocks
+ List view
✔ Filter option to highlight tabs.
✔ Pin or close multiple tabs with filter.
✖ No Search only Filter.
☹ Favicon view seems use less.
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Tab Outliner ★★★★


✔ Nested Tree like tabbed view.
✔ Docked window.
✔ Can add text too.
✔ Offload tabs, while still keeping it in tree.
✔ Proper sub-tree window count.
✔ Can save all tabs and exit.
✖ No Search.
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Fruumo Tab Manager ★★★☆


✔ Vertical tab view.
✔ Quick search bar.
✔ Search History with ':'.
✔ Search bookmarks with ','.
✔ Command to Close duplicate tabs.
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Project Tab Manager ★★☆☆



Manage tabs as projects
Project Tab Manager is a Chrome Extension that lets you store tab sets per project, considering windows as projects. Storing projects as bookmarks on Chrome, you can use them even on Chrome for Android or Chrome for iOS which don't support extensions.
✔ See Time spent on each project.
✔ Search tabs.
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Tab Manager (by shimomire)★★☆☆


✔ Shows Vertical tabs with thumbnails and 3 more views.
✔ Search tabs.
✔ View closed tabs.
☹ Tab view on a new tab.
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Too Tabs Manager ★☆☆☆


✔ Table view of tabs.
✔ Unload tab (Shelve) with folder organisation.
✖ No Search.
☹ 1 sec loading every time to open it.
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TooManyTabs for Chrome ★★★★


✔ Show grid view with thumbnails with horizontal scrolling.
✔ Search tabs.
✔ Sort tabs, title, time or domain.
✔ Suspend tabs.
✔ Save tabs to drive.
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Sidewise ★★★☆


✔ Tree View.
✔ Docked window which tries to stick to the left of chrome.
✔ Search from url by typing sw [tab]
✔ Suspend tabs.
✔ Add a note.
☹ Only a single note is possible.
☹ Side Sticking window does not seem smooth.
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TabJump - Intelligent Tab Navigator ★★★☆


✔ Access Recently used tabs.
✔ Shows Related tabs.
✔ Lets undo closed tabs.
✖ No searching.
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Awesome Window & Tab Manager ★★☆☆


✔ Organises tabs into closable windows.
✔ Sort by title or URL.
✔ Quick search bar.
✔ Group tabs by domain, category, window.
☹ 1 sec Loading every time you open it.
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Our Pick
In no specific order:
  • Too many tabs for Chrome: It works without any hassle, quick switching between tabs and ability for memory management. 
  • Tab Outliner: Because tree organisation is best for handling multiple tab, it has all the right tools to handle tabs and memory consumption. 


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