Overcome Infinity Chrome Tabs Syndrome

Teepob Harutaipree
Bright Days
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3 min readMar 23, 2021

Infinity Chrome Tabs Syndrome

While working we always end up with enormous list of chrome tabs as always. But this is a very bad habit to put your important off the focus. You should have more systematic way to clean up unused tabs and retrieve it when needed.

Tabs Lifecycle: Ultimately we want to remove/organize inactive tabs in our screen AND retrieve somehow when needed.

Chrome extension is a great cure !

Chrome extensions are very helpful to execute repetitive tasks, there are pretty useful extensions out there that will help you accomplish your task more efficiently.

Moreover, most of the time we always spend the time on our PC open up the browser, its much convenient to control and execute tasks within the browser, this reduce window management crisis.

Imagine overwhelmed tabs that could interfere with our ability to find the right tab. These are some of the tools+tips that could help with ICTS.

1. Session Buddy

Closed all tabs and get back to them EASY. You can keep all history of closed Window Tabs & save or manage the current windows tabs.

Key Features

  • Auto record tabs automatically (multiple windows)
  • Save sessions for later use
  • Merge Session show/hide duplicate
  • Import / Export as json/txt

Useful keyboard shortcuts

f — searchsession name / selected session tabs
s — save sesion | w—renameSession
e — move up | d — move down
E — select up | D — select down

📌 Extension Link

2. Quickey

Let you navigate through tabs quickly by fuzzy match search bar.

Alt+Q : Toggle search bar

  • select/switch active tabs
  • /b <bookmark search>
  • /h <history search>

Key Features

  • Search active tabs + history and bookmarks
  • Handy keys for switching to previous / next tab
  • Handy keys for moving tabs

📌 Extension Link

3. Papaly

Board style bookmark manager, easy to find+save webpage and sync across account.

Left: Papaly main board view / Right: Adding page with Papaly

Key Features

  • Sync with Facebook Account
  • Import from Bookmark
  • Organize into Boards with Categories + Colors
  • Sharing
  • Appear on search provider result: Google/Bing

📌 Extension Link

Google / Bing Search Results with Papaly bookmark

4. Native Chrome Tabs Group

  • Group Tabs
  • Toggle Show/Hide group

Right Click the Tab > Add to New Tab Group

Use Shift/Cmd+Click to group multiple tabs

Search for Tabs

Use Cmd+Shift + A to open the tab search

  • Navigate and close tabs quickly

Manage Groups

  • Right Click the group to Edit
  • Left Click to Toggle
  • Slide other Tabs inside to add tab to group
See all group managing actions

Notes: For older chrome versions it still in developer version

Use chrome Developer setting > Navigate to chrome://flags

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Please comment/share your ❤️ way to deal with tabs

………………….🌊🌊🌊 Happy surfing 🌊🌊🌊……………..

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Teepob Harutaipree
Bright Days

💻 Full stack Developer who likes to exercise 🏊‍♂️and living the healthy lifestyles. 📑 Exploring and incorporating productivity tools in daily routine.