TabGod Autor: binarybusiness.me

You have more tabs open than you can read the titles of. That is a counting problem before it is anything else, and the tab strip is the wrong instrument for it: it gives every tab the same sliver of space, whether you opened it a minute ago or last Tuesday.

TabGod adds one panel, opened with Alt+Shift+K. It lists your last hundred tabs in the order you actually visited them, with the tab you came from at the top. Tabs you closed sit in the same list as the ones still open. There is no second place to look.

Arrow down the list and each open tab comes up in the browser as you pass it. You are not reading titles any more; you are looking at pages. A closed tab selects without being reopened, so passing over one costs nothing. Press Escape and the tab you started from is back.

Press Delete and the selected tab closes. You stay in the panel, and the tab is not gone: the archive keeps it, the row stays where it was, and Enter brings it back. Press Delete again on that same row and the archive forgets it too. That is how thirty dead tabs go, and you never touch the tab strip to do it.

Typing is the third way through the list, not the first. Type "rust" and the list reorders: matches rise, everything else stays below them. It does not filter. Nothing you visited drops out of reach because you typed, which is what lets you fall back to arrowing when the word you tried was the wrong one.

Groups build themselves in Firefox's own tab strip, named and colored, and they are the groups the vertical-tabs sidebar shows. Tabs group by site and by what you are doing with them: news, code, shopping, video. When one site takes over a group, it gets its own: three Reddit tabs inside Social become "Social: Reddit". Groups you named yourself are never renamed and never split. One switch stops all of it, and every run leaves a receipt you can undo.

Some tabs no rule can classify. Those, and only those, go to a small language model that ships inside the extension and runs on your machine. It reads titles and web addresses, finds the tabs that belong together, and names the group. It is not a paid feature and it makes no network request.

Tab history is back and forward for tabs. Alt+Shift+Left and Alt+Shift+Right walk the tabs you were actually working in; three back and three forward returns you exactly where you started. Alt+Shift+Down jumps between the last two. Tabs you passed through on the way somewhere else never enter the trail, so it stays short enough to be worth walking.

Closed tabs stay searchable in a local archive, tabs you have not touched in a while are suspended to save memory, and a timeline records what you opened and when. All of it is free, and there is no upgrade prompt anywhere in it.

The optional $25 licence is bought once and adds concept search: type ? and what you remember, "the recipe I was reading", and the tab comes back when those words are not in its title. With it come group names that stick, smart groups gathered across every window, richer activity signals, a trail that spans every window, and a closed tab reopened when the trail steps onto it. Each of those has its own switch. There is no subscription, no account, and nothing checking in with a server; turn them all off and you have the free tier exactly.

TabGod has no tab-data backend and never receives URLs, titles, page content, or activity signals. It contacts the accountless licensing service only after you choose Buy, to open Stripe Managed Payments Checkout, claim the signed licence once, or request email redelivery. Optional browser-native sync uses the browser vendor's service and privacy terms; licence sync is a separate, default-off choice.

The paid capabilities also run on Chrome and Edge. The Mac App Store edition for Safari is free-only and ships no model.