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TabFern tab manager and backup tool

Save and restore your tabs and windows, and navigate tabs in a vertical view.

Users1KCurrent public install base
Rating4.2Store average score
Reviews41Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version0.4.1
ManifestV3
Size1.42MiB
Languages4Deutsch / English / français +1
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NOTE TF has been updated to Manifest V3 --- please report any issues at https://github.com/cxw42/TabFern/issues . As always, back up early and often! Thanks!

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TabFern organizes your browsing life. It shows all your open windows and tabs in one place, for immediate access. With one click, you can close a window, and then bring it back any time with one more click. With two clicks, you can backup all those URLs to a text file, or restore a backup. No need to login to copy browsing sessions between computers! With TabFern, switching between projects is a breeze, and you can leave a task behind without worrying about losing the pages. TabFern is perfect for researchers, the perpetually curious, and anyone who winds up with way too many tabs open at once!

TabFern is under active development, so please do not hesitate to report bugs or provide feedback via GitHub. TabFern is offered AS-IS, and with NO WARRANTY — see the license on the Web site for full details. However, the primary author uses TabFern almost 365 days a year, so bug reports should receive a quick response :) . If you would like to contribute to TabFern's development, feel free — we welcome pull requests and would be happy to help you get started.

Permissions: The "Read your browsing history" permission permits TabFern to access the URLs and titles of pages you visit, so that it can help you manage your tabs. TabFern stores that data only on your computer, and does not send it anywhere.

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Store average score4.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
Synced text average4.0Average computed only from synced review bodies below
Reviews with text30Synced review bodies
Total ratings / reviews41Chrome Web Store public rating/review count

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r w2021年8月31日
4

Please offer keyboard shortcut such as Alt+T to load the tab list. Besides, please offer two columns tab list optionally for wide screen desktop.

Language en
寒木钓萌2021年7月21日
5

这是一个我可能要使用10年的插件,特别好用,超过市面上所有一切。

Language zh
James Chase2021年4月12日
5

This tool is amazing and underrated! I used Tabs Outliner for a long time and that has it's benefits too but the ability to easily name and open/close windows in Chrome with Tab Fern means you can basically do what Chrome *should* do which is keep your idle windows from using all your system resources. Just open a named window "session" when you want to research those thing. What made me switch in the first place though was the ability to easily backup the open windows and tabs to a local file and then re-load this file on another computer -- so you can easily transfer your browser state for those of us that work at companies that block tools that use cloud storage like Chrome's synchronization.

Language en
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Jenny Williams2021年4月2日
5

Hi Chris, agree with all the above, well done again on the work here. As with many TO users, when moving to new PC's and moving the TO database, we need to reload TO, which is now gone. Any chance you could add a read of TO databases into TF? Instant 80% TO>TF migration it could be :)

Language en
Jeff Statz2021年3月22日
3

This is one of the few session management extensions that appears to remain active development. However, this extension does not support restoring Tab Groups. Restoring sessions results in disorganized tabs, which then need reclassifying into Tab Groups. Google has listed the Tab Group API as working since Chrome v89: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/tabGroups/ My hope that an actively-developed extension, like TabFern can now use Chrome's Tab Groups API to get it implemented. Everything else with this extension, works great, so this is a 5* review as soon as Tab Group restoration is implemented.

Language en
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Hikari Shidou2020年7月24日
5

I had used it for a day and it's really impressive. It's the third best and most flexible tabs manager I've ever experienced. I loved how it saves backup on json format, this way I'm able to manually create backups of single windows. I'm willing to donate if you keep it open source and implement support for tree tabs structure and/or per-tab hibernation, similar to how Tabs Outliner works.

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Elite Stone Design2020年7月19日
4

I've been looking for a replacement for Tabs Outliner and this is the best contender so far. I wish there was a similar addon for FireFox but so far nothing as simple or as elegant.

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László Krencz2020年3月26日
5

I love it, came from Tabs Outliner. Love the simplicity and ease of use and the clean interface. Would love to donate a few bucks but so far haven't found a way :)

Language en
Máté Rémiás2019年11月26日
5

What a great alternative to TO, thanks a lot for making and maintaining it!

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Fidel Perez2019年6月13日
5

Excelent. Simple yet very powerful. Wont have a browser open without TabFern also open again! Thanks for creating this and for doing it open source.

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