Chrome Plugins – Tab Management

CHROME IE TAB MULTI - is a really neat MultiTab IE extension and behaves similarly to the original Internet Explorer.  It makes it possible to see an IE only site whilst you’re still using Chrome, you can also run ActiveX controls. With loads of favorable reviews it’s certainly worth taking a look at, with a 5 Star rating it’s been well received by thousands of users.

TOOMANYTABS FOR CHROME - you might have already come across this handy add on in Firefox, well, now it’s available in Chrome too. Have you ever tried working with 20 or more tabs open in Chrome – chances are that you have – isn’t it a pain? You can get into a right muddle, you can’t see the tab titles or even the favicon of any of the tabs. That’s why you need this fantastic extension to help you to stay in control of your tabs – it really does make everything so much more manageable. You can have a birds eye view of all open tabs without having to guess which is which . . .

QUICKTABS - is another great way to make your tabs more manageable.  It’s actually based on the quick selector for “Recent Files”, and you can move quickly and effortlessly around your recently used tabs without even needing your mouse. Find ‘em, use ‘em, switch ‘em – quickly and easily. Sounds like my sort of thing . . .

TABJUMP - is known as the Intelligent Tab Navigator. Well, you wouldn’t want to use a stupid one would you, we can make enough of those mistakes without add ons and plugins to help us!  It helps you to navigate your way around any recently used tabs, closed tabs, associated tabs – it just loves tabs!! Sometimes, when you’re working with lots of different tabs, you can’t always remember where you need to go next ( two tab jumps on and I can’t even remember what I was supposed to be doing in the first place), so Tabjump highlights those which you use frequently, even the ones you might have closed by accident (I hate it when that happens) – don’t worry, Tabjump to the rescue.

SESSION MANAGER - is really fantastic, it means that you can manage whatever session you’ve been working on, saving everything together to re-open in one fell swoop. You can save your browser state, quick and easy so that it’s ready to be reloaded at a later date. You can manage any number of sessions, rename them, remove them, re-order them and the sessions manager will remember exactly where you had left off, when you restore the browser – which is more than can be said for many of us.

TAB WRANGLER - is especially useful for the more forgetful among us – now where was I, oh yes, Tab Wrangler. If you’re in the habit of opening tabs “willy nilly” and then forgetting to close them again, ending up with dozens of tabs all over the place and you don’t even know which is which, then Tab Wrangler can save you from yourself. It automatically closes any tabs you haven’t used for a while. The default setting is 7 minutes, but that’s not long really once you get busy on something, so you can change that to avoid it from closing things you’re still using. It really can help to keep you focused on what you’re doing now, not what you were doing an hour or so ago. It’s a kind of tidy-up add on, and we can all use those can’t we?

PANIC BUTTON - ha ha, this is a good one too. Panic Button means that you can hide all of your tabs with just a single click, so if you’ve been up to something which you shouldn’t have . . . use your imagination on that one . . . and someone pops up behind you to see what you’re up to, press the panic button and you’re back checking e-mails from your best friend Ivy, and nobody is any the wiser. Of course, once “Mrs Nosey Parker” has gone again, another click and you’re back to where you started before you were so rudely interrupted.

TAB MENU - is another way for you to keep tab on your tabs – instead of having to watch your tabs shrink until they virtually disappear before your eyes as you add to their number, they are displayed on a very hand menu which is accessed from the toolbar – what a good idea! You can easily select a tab, close a tab, re-arrange your tabs (drag ‘em and drop ‘em) or find a tab. Brilliant.

RECENT HISTORY - this one does exactly what you’d think it might do, it displays all your recent history and activity in a pop-up menu with just a single click. You can easily find any recently closed tabs, the pages which you visit the most and any recent bookmarks – quick as a flash. I bet you wish all history was as easy to deal with as this.

SEXY UNDO CLOSE TAB - this is a modified version of the original Undo Close Tab plugin, but is, so they say, altogether sexier. That’s why I thought I’d better save it until last. If you close a tab accidentally (and we all do it don’t we), then don’t panic, this sexy extension can save you.