I built a small browser extension to clean up messy tabs

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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.

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:

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.

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.

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