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Chrome Extension · by Degird

The Smart Tab Manager for Chrome

Group tabs by site, auto-suspend the ones you are not reading, kill duplicates, and export every open tab in one click.

Chrome gives every tab its own process memory, so forty idle tabs quietly hold RAM for pages nobody is looking at. TabFold folds that mess back into order: colour-coded native tab groups, a memory saver that suspends inactive tabs without losing their content, session snapshots you can restore, and clean exports to Markdown, CSV, HTML, or plain text.

Free forever · No account required · No data collected

Built for Tab Hoarders

Four Jobs Your Browser Should Already Do

TabFold is not a replacement browser or a bookmark service. It is a small toolkit for the four things that go wrong when a research session runs long: too many tabs, too much memory, too many duplicates, and no way to get the list back out.

Smart Domain Grouping
Auto-Suspend Memory Saver
Session Save & Restore
Export to 4 Formats

Who It's For

Who Uses TabFold?

If your browser regularly holds more tabs than the tab strip can show titles for, this was built for the way you work.

Researchers Running Long Sessions

A serious research session is dozens of sources open at once, spread across half a dozen domains, held open because closing one means finding it again. TabFold groups them by site so the set stays navigable, suspends the ones you are not reading so the machine stays responsive, and exports the whole list when you are ready to write.

Students Writing Literature Reviews

Twenty papers, three databases, one deadline. Group by source, save the session between library visits, and export the URLs straight into your notes.

Developers

Docs, issue tracker, Stack Overflow, three localhost ports and a staging URL. Group by domain, whitelist localhost so it never suspends, and switch projects with a session snapshot.

SEO & Marketing Teams Doing SERP Research

Competitor analysis means opening a search results page and then opening everything on it. TabFold gathers the results by domain, strips duplicates automatically, and exports the surviving list to CSV or Markdown so it can go straight into a spreadsheet, an audit doc, or a client report.

Chronic Tab Hoarders

You keep tabs open because they are the to-do list. TabFold makes that habit survivable: fold them into groups, suspend the idle ones, and stop paying for it in RAM.

Laptop Users Fighting RAM & Battery

Idle tabs still hold memory and still cost power. Suspending the ones you are not reading gives the rest of the machine room to work.

Anyone Who Has Ever Lost a Session to a Crash

The worst part of a browser crash is never the crash — it is discovering that the forty tabs you had assembled over two days are simply gone, and that neither history nor bookmarks can tell you which of the thousands of pages you visited were the ones that mattered. TabFold's session snapshots and one-click export exist so that assembling a working set of tabs is never work you can lose.

Core Features

Everything TabFold Does

Seven tools, one popup, no configuration required to start. Every one of them removes a specific piece of manual tab housekeeping.

01 / 09

Smart Domain Grouping

TabFold scans your open tabs and gathers everything from the same website into a single colour-coded group. It uses Chrome's own native 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. Thirty scattered tabs become six labelled clusters in the time it takes to click once. Finding the tab you want stops being a scan across identical favicons.

Simple Workflow

How TabFold Works

Install, open the popup, click the thing you need. There is no account, no onboarding, and no setup step before it is useful.

01

Add to Chrome

Install the free extension from the Chrome Web Store. It is 18.37 KiB, so it is done before you have finished reading this.

02

Open the Popup

Click the toolbar icon or press Ctrl+Shift+E (Cmd+Shift+E on macOS) to see every action in one panel.

03

Fold Your Tabs

Group by domain, remove duplicates, and let the memory saver suspend whatever you have stopped reading.

04

Save or Export

Snapshot the session for later, or export the whole set to Markdown, CSV, HTML, or plain text.

Pricing

Free. Actually Free.

TabFold has one plan. There is no paid tier waiting behind a feature you need, no trial clock, and no account to create.

Free Forever

Everything Included
$0

no account required

The complete extension — grouping, memory saver, sessions, export, import, and every power-user toggle.

Smart domain grouping into native Chrome tab groups
Auto-suspend memory saver with a custom timer
Session save & restore
Export to Markdown, CSV, HTML & plain text
Import tabs from a URL list
Automatic duplicate removal
Pinned-tab exclusion, domain whitelist & active-window mode
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+E / Cmd+Shift+E

TabFold is distributed free through the Chrome Web Store. The developer declares that no user data is collected, none is sold to third parties, and none is used outside the extension's core functionality.

Full Feature Set

The Details That Matter

Small things, but they are the difference between a tab manager you keep and one you uninstall the first time it closes something it should not have.

Keyboard Shortcut

Ctrl+Shift+E, or Cmd+Shift+E on macOS, opens the popup instantly.

Pinned-Tab Exclusion

Leave pinned tabs out of grouping and suspension entirely.

Domain Whitelist

Mark essential sites that the memory saver must never suspend.

Active-Window-Only Mode

Limit any action to the window you are working in.

Markdown Export

Linked lists that paste straight into Notion, Obsidian, or a README.

CSV Export

Open your session in a spreadsheet for auditing or reporting.

HTML Export

A clickable page of every tab you had open, saved as a file.

Plain Text Export

The simplest possible list, ready for anywhere that takes text.

URL List Import

Paste a list of links and open them all as tabs in one go.

Native Colour-Coded Groups

Built on Chrome's own Tab Groups — collapsible, renameable, draggable.

Duplicate Removal

Repeated URLs are cleared automatically, keeping one of each.

Content-Preserving Restore

Suspended tabs come back when clicked instead of being lost.

Local-Only Operation

No cloud storage, no tracking, no account — everything stays on your device.

18.37 KiB Footprint

A tab manager that saves memory should not be the thing consuming it.

Privacy by Design

Your Tabs Never Leave Your Machine

A tab manager sees everything you have open — which makes it exactly the kind of extension that should not be sending anything anywhere. TabFold runs entirely locally. There is no cloud storage, no tracking, no account, and no sync server holding a copy of your browsing. The developer's Chrome Web Store declaration states that no user data is collected, none is sold to third parties, and none is used outside the extension's core functionality.

What stays on your device:

Your open tabs and their URLs read locally to group, suspend, and export — never transmitted
Your saved sessions workspace snapshots stored in the browser, not on our servers
Your settings timers, whitelists, and toggles kept local; there is no account to attach them to

No data collected. Nothing sold to third parties. Nothing used outside core functionality — as declared on the Chrome Web Store listing.

Why We Built It

Because Closing Tabs
Is Not a Solution

Every piece of advice about tab overload comes down to the same instruction: close some tabs. It ignores why the tabs are open. They are open because each one is a thread you have not finished pulling, and closing it means paying the cost of finding it again — which is exactly the cost you were avoiding when you left it open.

The real problem is not the count. It is that Chrome gives every tab its own process memory, so pages nobody is reading keep holding RAM, and that a browser tab strip gives you no way to organise, preserve, or extract the set you have assembled. Forty tabs is a working document that the browser refuses to treat as one.

So TabFold treats it as one. Fold tabs into groups by the site they came from. Suspend the ones you are not reading, without losing what is in them. Snapshot the whole set so a project can be put down and picked up. And when the research is finished, export the list as a document — because the value of those forty tabs was always the list, and it should not take forty copy-pastes to get it out.

Zero Setup

Install, open the popup, and it is already useful — no account, no onboarding.

Memory Back

Idle tabs stop holding RAM while staying exactly where you left them.

Native, Not Novel

Grouping uses Chrome's own Tab Groups, so nothing new to learn.

Your List, Portable

Four export formats mean the session leaves the browser as a document.

Nothing Phones Home

No cloud, no tracking, no collection — everything runs on your device.

Free for Everyone

One tier, every feature, no upgrade prompt sitting on the button you need.

Reviews

What People Say
About TabFold

Published verbatim, unedited, from people using it.

This extension really helped me organize my marketing research tabs and keep everything clean. Super useful for staying focused and saving time while working.

Antora Ahmed

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Get Started

Fold Your Tabs Back Into Order

Group them, suspend the idle ones, kill the duplicates, and export the list. Free, local, and installed in under a minute. Curious about the underlying problem first? Read why Chrome uses so much RAM, or how to export and save all open tabs.

Free forever · No account required · No data collected · 18.37 KiB