About this extension

With Winger, having lots of windows becomes a truly viable way to organize lots of tabs. Fluidly operate multiple windows with ease, and divide-and-conquer your tabs by topic, task, project, you name it – literally.

Highlights

Once named, finding a window on the pop-up panel takes one glance; moving tabs between windows takes one click.
Spoils you with two ways to move tabs: "send" or "bring" to another window.
With Winger's omnibox, all actions can be done even quicker by typing a few keys. Great for power users.
Dear power users: Thanks to the omnibox, there are no keyboard shortcuts to remember, apart from the one that opens the panel. (You use slash commands instead)
Private window support: Tabs normally cannot be moved between private and normal windows, but Winger can automatically reopen them in windows you send or bring them to.
If enabled in settings, Winger makes it possible to move pinned tabs.
Stash windows you want to save and close, and easily restore them later. (This new feature is a work in progress, building up from basic functionality first. Significant improvements to come! Get in touch with me via email/github if you have feedback.)

More information can be found in the Quick Guide accessed from the Help button.

Is this like tab groups? Why manage windows?

Tab grouping is a popular tab management approach that has seen many implementations. Winger belongs in the same space but without the wheel-reinvention: instead of introducing a made-up tab collection context, you just use windows, the efficient and original "tab groups" that also delivers all the familiar features provided by your browser and OS (and any third-party window management tools). Winger simply adds a few more features that remove friction and key limitations.

So yes like tab groups, but IMHO better. Window management done well begets viable tab management.

Required permissions

Access browser tabs – To access tab titles for displaying them in Edit mode, and tab urls for reproducing tabs into/out of private windows
Access recently closed tabs – Refers to access to "sessions"; for storing window names that will persist across browser sessions

Optional permissions (Requested when relevant feature is enabled)

Read and modify bookmarks – For the stash/unstash commands to create/remove bookmarks

In Winger's foreseeable future?

Tab and link context menus - Added in v1.2
Visually differentiate between windows via toolbar button - Added in v1.3
Stash away windows as bookmarks - Added in v1.4
Dark theme
Indicate/mute windows playing audio
Winger in your language
and more...

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Release notes for 1.4.2

v1.4.2

New: If the panel fails to load, shows a Restart Winger button as a fix.
New: Placeholder tabs for unstashing privileged urls now also used for sending/bringing privileged urls in and out of private windows. (Previously, such urls are not reopened at all.)
Fixed: Resolve any name conflicts at window creation for reopening and unstashing of windows.
Fixed: Text selection by keyboard (e.g. Ctrl+A, Shift+arrow) of slash commands within the panel omnibox now works properly.

Stash related:
Improved: Stashing performance. Name conflict checking dropped; stashed window closes immediately, while bookmarks are saved synchronously in the background.
Improved: Unstashing performance. Stash-folder restriction on unstash command dropped; bookmark deletion decoupled from tab creation and performed in the background.
Improved: Stashing a window removes it from the Recently Closed Windows list, to avoid polluting the list with stashed windows.

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