Hi DEV community!
I wanted to share a small project I made called Anti-chaos tabs.
It is a Chrome / Edge extension that helps when your browser slowly turns into a mess of open tabs.
You know that moment when you have too many tabs open and you look at them like: “what was I even doing here?”
That was basically the problem I wanted to solve.
What it does
Anti-chaos tabs looks at your open tabs and tries to group related ones together.
For example, it can put GitHub tabs into one group, Google Docs into another group, shopping pages into another group, and so on.
You can click Group tabs and organize everything manually.
Or, if you want, the extension can suggest grouping when you have too many tabs open. It can also group them automatically after a certain tab limit.
Why I made it
I often open a lot of tabs while working, reading, or searching for something.
At first it feels fine. Then after a while there are 20, 30, 40 tabs, and I start losing the context.
I forget:
- which tabs belong to the same task
- which tab I need right now
- what I opened “for later”
- why there are so many similar pages
Browser tab groups are useful, but creating them by hand every time is a bit annoying.
So I made a small tool that helps with that boring part.
How it works
The extension checks simple tab information, like:
- website address
- domain
- page title
- known services like GitHub, Google Workspace, Microsoft Office, OneDrive, shopping sites, and others
Then it tries to find tabs that look related and creates browser tab groups.
It does not read the page content.
It does not send your tabs anywhere.
Everything works locally in the browser.
Features
- Manual tab grouping
- Automatic grouping after a tab limit
- Grouping by websites, services, URLs, and tab titles
- Separate groups for Google Docs, Sheets, Drive, Microsoft Office, OneDrive, etc.
- Option to collapse inactive groups
- Option to lock some groups so they stay open
- Works in Chrome and Edge
- Supports several languages
- No analytics
- No server
- No remote AI
Privacy
The extension does not collect browsing data and does not send tab URLs or titles to any server.
It only uses the browser APIs needed to look at open tabs and create tab groups.
Links
Feedback is welcome
This is a small project, but I think it can be useful for people who often work with many tabs.
If you try it, I would be happy to hear what works well, what feels confusing, or what kind of grouping you would expect from an extension like this.
