TabAutopilot – Smart Tab Manager, Groups & Snooze 제작자: Mamunur Rashid

TabAutopilot is a smart tab manager for Firefox that auto-groups your tabs into native Firefox tab groups by topic, snoozes tabs for later and hibernates the rest to free memory. Too many tabs open? One click organizes every one of them into clean, named tab groups — then they stay organized automatically as you browse. Close duplicate tabs, save your whole session as a workspace, and get it all back after a crash. Built for tab hoarders: whether it's 20 tabs or 200, TabAutopilot declutters Firefox so you stay focused — without any effort.

Everything runs on your machine. TabAutopilot makes no network requests at all — no server, no account, no telemetry, no remote code.

⚡ HOW IT WORKS

Install TabAutopilot and open the sidebar from the toolbar button.
Press Alt+G (or click Smart Group) — every open tab is sorted into a clean, named tab group in seconds.
Turn on auto-grouping and new tabs sort themselves as you browse. That's it — no setup, no account.
🧭 PROBLEMS TABAUTOPILOT SOLVES ✦ "Firefox is slow and using too much RAM" → hibernate inactive tabs and get gigabytes of memory back ✦ "My tab groups don't survive a restart" → save your groups as workspaces and restore them anytime ✦ "I lost all my tabs when the browser closed" → crash recovery brings every tab and group back with one click ✦ "I can't find the tab I need" → search every open tab by title or URL, results as you type ✦ "The same page is open five times" → duplicate detection spots copies and closes them automatically ✦ "I keep 50 tabs open so I don't forget them" → snooze tabs instead; they reopen exactly when you need them

🗂 AUTO GROUP TABS BY TOPIC TabAutopilot reads each tab's page title as well as its domain, so a localhost page titled "Investment Dashboard" goes into an Investment group, not a Dev group.

✦ One click to organize tabs — every open tab grouped instantly ✦ Turn on auto-grouping and new tabs are sorted as you browse ✦ Choose By site (strict domain grouping) or By topic (related sites cluster together) ✦ Uses Firefox's own native tab groups — added in Firefox 139 — not a separate window or a custom sidebar list ✦ Groups get meaningful names from a canonical vocabulary ("Development", "Social") or the dominant site's brand ("YouTube", "GitHub") — never a raw hostname ✦ If a group already exists, new tabs merge into it automatically ✦ 45+ popular sites get friendly names — Google Translate shows as "Translate", not "translate.google"

There is no AI model and no inference of any kind: grouping is a local rule engine — a seeded domain table, keyword and title matching, your own categories and rules, and what it learns from the tabs you move by hand.

😴 TAB SUSPENDER — HIBERNATE INACTIVE TABS Each open tab eats 50–300 MB of memory. TabAutopilot works as a modern tab suspender — hibernating inactive tabs to free memory while keeping them visible in your tab bar. A safe, Manifest V3 alternative to The Great Suspender, with far more control than Firefox's own automatic tab unloading.

✦ Set a timeout: 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, or 2 hours ✦ Inactive tabs are hibernated automatically ✦ Click a hibernated tab to reload it instantly ✦ Pinned tabs and tabs playing audio are never touched ✦ Hibernating 30 of 50 tabs can free 3–6 GB of RAM

🔍 CLOSE DUPLICATE TABS A live badge on the toolbar button shows your duplicate tab count. Close them all with one click. Smart matching ignores tracking parameters to catch true duplicates. You can also turn on auto-close so duplicate tabs are removed the moment they open.

🧹 CLEAR SITE DATA Sign out of a site or wipe its local storage without digging through Firefox settings. From any tab's menu — or the right-click page menu — clear that site's cookies and session data, or delete its browsing history, each behind a confirmation dialog. A global "Clear cache" and "Clear cookies" pair lives in the sidebar. Everything happens locally, only when you click.

💾 TAB SESSION MANAGER — WORKSPACES Save your entire session — tabs, groups, colors, everything — as a named workspace. Restore, switch or merge workspaces with one click. Tab groups are fully preserved including collapsed state. Unlimited workspaces, completely free.

⏰ TAB SNOOZE Save tabs for later — snooze a tab and it closes, then reopens automatically at the time you pick.

✦ Click the clock icon on any tab to snooze it ✦ Presets: in 1 hour, in 3 hours, or next Monday ✦ Or pick any custom date and time ✦ Snooze entire groups at once — they reopen with original name and color ✦ Snoozed tabs survive browser restarts ✦ Restore early or cancel anytime

⚡ INSTANT TAB JOINING Open a new social site while a Social group is already open? It joins the group instantly. TabAutopilot recognizes the category and adds it — no clicks needed. New tabs find their group on their own, across every category.

📋 DOMAIN RULES & CUSTOM CATEGORIES TabAutopilot ships with curated rules across 34 built-in categories including Development, Social, Work, Email, Cloud, Documents, Shopping, Finance, News, Education, Travel, Health, Design and Jobs. Grouping works right out of the box.

Customize everything from the Rules tab: ✦ Add, edit or delete rules — map any domain to any category ✦ Create your own categories ("Job Search", "Thesis", "Client work") and define them by keyword, by domain, or by a plain-English description ✦ Search, sort and filter by domain or category; reset to defaults anytime

🧠 A TAB MANAGER THAT LEARNS Turn on "Learn grouping from activity" and TabAutopilot starts picking up your habits. Move a tab to a different group and it remembers your choice. Next time you open a page on that domain, it goes to the right group automatically. Your corrections always take priority.

Learning is off by default — you opt in when ready. You can review and delete any learned rule from the Rules tab.

🔄 CRASH RECOVERY Your session is saved automatically every 5 minutes and on every tab change. If Firefox crashes or your computer restarts unexpectedly, a recovery banner restores every tab and group with one click.

📊 ACTIVITY & USAGE DASHBOARDS See your stats right inside the Workspaces view: ✦ Memory saved by hibernation (MB/GB) and a 30-day savings chart ✦ Top domains by tab count, and category breakdown ✦ Browse time, peak hour, and a 24-hour activity chart ✦ Usage stats record registrable domains only — never full URLs, never page titles — and can be switched off or cleared at any time

🔎 TAB SEARCH AND SORTING Sort tabs by title, domain, activity score, or default order. Sort groups by name, tab count, or default. Search tabs by title or URL — results update in real time.

↩ UNDO The last 10 actions are undoable. Press Cmd/Ctrl+Z or click the undo notification. Works for closing, grouping, ungrouping, hibernating, and duplicate removal.

⌨ KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS ✦ Alt+G — Auto-group all tabs ✦ Alt+D — Close duplicate tabs ✦ Alt+S — Save workspace ✦ Cmd/Ctrl+Z — Undo last action

🖱 CONTEXT MENU Right-click any page to move a tab to a new group, save a group as a workspace, hibernate a group, close duplicates of that tab, or clear that site's cookies and session. The toolbar button's own menu collapses or expands every group in the window.

🎨 MODERN UI Clean interface with frosted glass cards and smooth transitions. Follows your system theme — light, dark, or auto.

🔒 100% PRIVATE ✦ No account required ✦ No tracking, no analytics, no ads ✦ No network requests — none, at all. No fetch, no remote scripts, styles, fonts or images ✦ No remote code — everything that runs ships in the package ✦ All data stored locally, and deleted when you uninstall ✦ Declared to Mozilla as collecting no data whatsoever ✦ Your browsing history is never read — the history permission is used only to delete a site's own entries, locally, when you ask

🆓 COMPLETELY FREE Every feature included. No premium tier. No subscription. No workspace limits. No tab caps.

💡 HOW IT COMPARES TO OTHER FIREFOX TAB ADD-ONS ✦ Simple Tab Groups alternative — grouping is automatic and rule-driven, and it uses Firefox's own native tab groups rather than a separate window of its own ✦ Auto Tab Discard alternative — hibernation plus grouping, snooze, sessions and duplicate detection in one add-on, instead of a single-purpose discarder ✦ Tab Session Manager alternative — save and restore whole sessions as workspaces, and get automatic grouping and crash recovery with them ✦ OneTab alternative — keeps your tabs in the tab bar as native tab groups instead of dumping them into a flat list you have to dig through ✦ Panorama / legacy Firefox Tab Groups replacement — the grouped-tabs workflow Firefox users have wanted back, built on the native tab groups added in Firefox 139 ✦ The Great Suspender replacement — a safe, Manifest V3 tab suspender with no tracking ✦ The tab manager that actually keeps your data private — zero network requests, unlike cloud-based tab organizers that sync your tab list to a server

❓ FAQ Does TabAutopilot need an account? No. Install it and it works — no sign-up, no login, ever. Does it send my tabs anywhere? No. The add-on makes no network requests at all. There is nothing to send them to. Is there AI in it? No. Grouping is a local rule engine — no model, no inference, no cloud. Which Firefox versions are supported? Firefox 140 and newer on desktop, 142 and newer on Android. How do I stop Firefox using so much memory? Turn on hibernation — inactive tabs are suspended automatically and reload instantly when clicked. What happens to my groups if Firefox crashes? Autosave keeps a copy every 5 minutes; a recovery banner restores every tab and group with one click. Will it slow Firefox down? No — it's a lightweight sidebar and injects no content scripts into your pages. Can I undo a mistake? Yes — the last 10 actions are undoable with Cmd/Ctrl+Z. Does it work offline? Yes. Everything runs locally, so grouping, snooze and hibernation work with no internet connection. Is it really free? Yes — every feature, forever.

👥 PERFECT FOR ✦ Researchers and students juggling 100+ tabs across topics ✦ Developers with localhost, docs, and Stack Overflow everywhere ✦ Online shoppers comparing products across a dozen stores ✦ Anyone whose browser feels slower — and messier — every week

🆕 NEW IN VERSION 0.8.6 ✦ First Firefox release — native sidebar, native Firefox tab groups ✦ Grouping is now instant and fully local: one rule engine, no model, no waiting for a second pass ✦ Grouping modes renamed to "By site" and "By topic"; settings exported from older builds import cleanly

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🌐 Download for Chrome — the Chromium build of TabAutopilot → https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/nplekjmldglpfcdiechmgahoefhfheom?utm_source=item-share-cb

📊 LiveMetrics for Mac — free menu bar app for live system stats → https://net.mdrashid.com/

📦 NPM Manager for VS Code — manage your package.json without leaving the editor → https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=MdRashid.npm-manager

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Requires Firefox 140 or newer (142+ on Firefox for Android).