Getting Started With TabFold
Install TabFold and organise Chrome: group tabs by domain into native tab groups, suspend idle tabs, and remove duplicates in one click.
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You organise an overloaded Chrome window with TabFold by installing the free extension, opening its popup, and clicking the action you need: group every tab by the site it came from, remove duplicate URLs, suspend the tabs you are not reading, or export the whole set as a document. There is no account, no onboarding, and no setup step before it is useful.
Before you begin
- Google Chrome
- A window full of tabs — the extension does the rest
What TabFold is
TabFold is a free tab manager for Chrome, published by Degird on the Chrome Web Store. It is deliberately small — 18.37 KiB — and deliberately native: grouping uses Chrome's own Tab Groups, so the result is a first-class browser feature you can collapse, rename, and drag, not a custom sidebar you have to learn.
It runs entirely locally. Your open tabs, saved sessions, and settings stay on your device; the Chrome Web Store declaration states that no user data is collected, none is sold to third parties, and none is used outside core functionality. For a tool that can see every tab you have open, that is the property worth checking first.
The first five minutes
Install TabFold from the Chrome Web Store, then open the popup from the toolbar icon or with the keyboard shortcut — Ctrl+Shift+E on Windows and Linux, Cmd+Shift+E on macOS. Every action lives in that one panel.
Start with Smart Domain Grouping. TabFold scans your open tabs and gathers everything from the same website into a single colour-coded group: thirty scattered tabs become six labelled clusters in one click, and finding a tab stops being a scan across identical favicons.
Then run the Duplicate Destroyer. Long sessions accumulate the same URL three or four times — opened from search, reopened from history, reopened from a link — and TabFold removes the copies automatically, keeping one of each.
Where the other features fit
The remaining tools handle memory and persistence. The auto-suspend memory saver releases the RAM idle tabs are holding while keeping them exactly where they are in the strip — timers, whitelists, and pinned-tab exclusion are covered in the memory saver guide. Session snapshots and the four-format export make a set of tabs something you can save, restore, and share, covered in sessions and export.
If you keep mail, calendar, or music pinned, turn on pinned-tab exclusion first. It keeps those tabs out of grouping and suspension entirely, so cleanup never touches them.
Next steps
TabFold
Group, suspend, and export browser tabs to reclaim memory and keep long research sessions organized instead of overwhelming.
See also
Related documentation
- Reduce Chrome Memory Usage With TabFold Auto-SuspendConfigure TabFold's memory saver: auto-suspend idle Chrome tabs on your own timer, whitelist essential domains, and keep content safe.
- Save, Restore & Export Chrome Tabs With TabFoldSave Chrome tab sessions as named snapshots, restore them later, and export every open tab to Markdown, CSV, HTML, or plain text.