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tabtiles

by oowildcat

v0.9.5 Updated Aug 25, 2025 77.21KiB
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★ 3.68
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Description

This extension displays a window's tabs in a bar along the top or bottom of the screen, useful for when browsing in full screen (F11) mode. The tiles are larger, so easier to click on than the usual browser tabs. Now includes touch support if you have a device with touch capability. It also allows navigating through the tabs using the keyboard, using the left and right keys. Press Enter to select a tab. Other features include: Type-to-search: start typing to enter keywords in the tabtiles address bar, press Enter to search. Choose when to display the bar: for normal restored windows, when maximized or in full screen mode. And / or auto-hide when not in use. Customize the size of the bar, to a percentage of the window height. Show popup hints, containing the full title and address of the page. -- Check out my other extension - search the web store for Last Tab Back. -- Release history: 0.9.5 Fix an issue where closing a tile removes the tab but not the tile until a later refresh has occurred 0.9.4 Added a setting to configure the main homepage (left click new tab or home), in a similar way to the alternate (right click new tab or home) 0.9.3 Added touch support to allow scrolling left and right through tabs. Also re-enabled lasttabback integration after some fixes 0.9.2 Disable lasttabback integration for now 0.9.1 Update to Manifest V3 and add bug fixes 0.9.0 Hide when viewing some media players full screen 0.8.13: Changed to allow clicking through to the page in areas where there aren't any tabs; now shows Untitled for pages with no title, and PDF Document for .pdf files - to allow the pdf viewer buttons to be clicked more easily 0.8.12 - Manually disable type-to-search or keyboard tab navigation; now allows 1-pixel activation height for auto-hide mode; set interval for hiding or switching back to mini mode; middle mouse button closes tab. 0.8.11 - Selected tab now has extra highlighting to make it easier to quickly locate. Fixed a bug where mouse clicks outside of the bar sometimes select a different tab when the button is released (i.e. when the mouse button was held down and then released at a different location). 0.8.10 - Changed to allow specifying the percentage size of mini mode compared to normal; also to allow setting the popup hint to "centered" 0.8.9 - The first (leftmost) button now shows the time and date in a hint. When using the wheel to move through tabs, mouse movement is deactivated until moved by a small amount. 0.8.8 - Added a history button within the address bar. Delete can now be pressed to close non-selected tabs when in keyboard navigation (left / right) mode. Fixed a bug that was preventing selecting tabs correctly if somehow no tab was selected 0.8.7 - Minor fixes for the new pinning integration 0.8.6 - Disabled displaying when printing the page (ie. on paper) 0.8.5 - Added support for pinning tabs - right click twice to do this 0.8.4 - Fixed minor zoom bug (not related to standard chrome zoom) 0.8.3 - Fixed a bug that caused the bar to go off screen at some chrome zoom levels 0.8.2 - Fixed bug in hide when right clicking the address bar close button 0.8.1 - Moving the mouse will cause the bar to be displayed, if it hasn't already. This helps with delays caused when the page being viewed tries to refer to slow / offline third party sites. Also, minor bug fixes 0.8.0 - Updated the button layout; click to close now snaps partly off-screen tiles to edges; fixed bugs relating to the bar not being displayed on some sites, and being damaged by chrome's translate feature 0.7.4 - Now allows address bar navigation to a new tab for both URL and search keywords; click-to-close message for selected tab is smaller for narrow tabs; fixed minor bugs 0.7.3 - Fixed a problem resizing tiles after some are closed (and auto-hide is enabled) 0.7.2 - Corrected issues regarding switching between mini and normal mode - wasn't re-sizing as intended 0.7.1 - Fixed bug where right-hand item does not correctly focus 0.7.0 - Initial release
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Reviews (12 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2022-05-31
Alex

Animations are sluggish. Can't hide buttons for back, forward, new tab, address bar. All my tabs, except active one, show "secure page" instead of title on tabs. Doesn't support Chrome's tab grouping feature so all the tabs you have hidden away in groups, and don't want to see all the time, are showing individually.

★☆☆☆☆2018-08-19
Samer T

does not work with google chrome 68

★☆☆☆☆2016-01-03
Jason Deveau

it seems to stay right in the middle of pages. Also it is ignoring my minimum size defeating the purpose.

★★☆☆☆2022-01-25
Semere Tereffe

It felt extremely clunky. The functionality is good, but it doesn't feel smooth or polished. The UX could definitely use a rework.

★★☆☆☆2016-08-04
Rose Rodent

I'm so close to loving this, but i don't because there doesn't seem to be a way to scroll it with on screen controls, I have to use the mouse. I only wanted it so I can get bigger buttons for talet mode, ie when there's no mouse. Can i scroll lef and right using the touch screen somehow? 5* if I can

★★☆☆☆2014-03-08
Lisa Grubbs-Carter

Didn't like it at all. Works as it says in description, but all of the extra tiles popping up was very distracting.

★★☆☆☆2013-02-21
Syu Qian

I dislike the zoom in when hover to the tab. The fullscreen tab disappear in Option/Extension/tabtiles option pages. I think it needs to be simple and neat, so it will look nicer.

★★★☆☆2022-03-28
Melvin MacDonald

It works, but the UX is poor. Visuals are the least of my worries; the non-scrollable tab bar via touchscreen is obviously unusable.

★★★☆☆2021-07-13
Miguel Garza

I love the look, I love the idea...but all the tabs except the active one have their titles obscured because they are "https:/" (secure) sites. This renders the extension pretty much useless. At the moment I am trying Blitz Fullscreen URL Launcher, which provides a vertical list of open tabs (the *full* title of each) at the press of a keyboard shortcut. So, for my purposes (getting some tab functionality back whilst in fullscreen mode), that extension is my go-to for now.

★★★☆☆2020-04-11
John Weiss

Seems to slow down pages.

★★★☆☆2018-05-05
Henrique Derosa

Oh. I couldn't use it, it doesn't show here. The extension was activated, but maybe it is not compatible with my Chrome version or something. :(

★★★☆☆2014-12-10
Fred J. Cimo Jr.

Using the Tab's Name or allowing suppression of the "secure page" as the Tile Name would be considerably BETTER!!!

Permissions (3)

Permissions

favicon storage Can store data locally in your browser tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs

Details

Version 0.9.5
Updated Aug 25, 2025
Size 77.21KiB
First Seen Mar 30, 2026