tabOS - Tab management, ChatGPT 4o, Docs/Images, RSS/YouTube/Reddit feeds
by gustav
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Not working in Arc Browser. I saw the tutorial addon is s*cks.
Not a fan. When opening a window via this extension, it automatically readjusts the size of the window to full width with no option to change that in the settings. How stupid is that in this day and age when we have such large monitors? That right there is the primary reason I am removing this directly. I can't believe the developer wants people to pay for this extension. Other problems: When accessing TabOS via a new tab, you see the set of tabs in the window that you are in, but there is no way to rename any of the window tab groups that you have open unless you create a folder. When I tested that, creating a folder and adding my tabs from one window, it closed all of those tabs! So, organizing with this extension is useless because there are so few options in the settings to change this extension's annoying behaviour. When I went to open all of those tabs again (because they are the ones I use every day for work), TabOS didn’t honor any of the tab groups I had made in Chrome. They were all gone and I had to rebuild from scratch. It really seems to be only a glorified "bookmarks" manager, but it isn't a very good one and I don’t see its worth over any other tab manager out there.
I wanted to love this extension. It seemed stable and robust, the layout is nice and and the concept is pretty slick, but the added value over what Chrome can already do is minimal (e.g. sidebar + tab grouping). The pricing is pretty high, likely due to the integrated AI, so it only make sense if you are replacing a ChatGPT Plus or CoPilot Pro subscription. The embedded ChatGPT widget is nicely done, but failed to generate a response when I tried a large prompt that worked on the official site. Moreover, a tabOS new tab can consume a lot of memory... a new tab with the ChatGPT widget consumed 1.2GB! I applaud the effort put into this extension, and I'm sure there are many who will love it. If you have not tried it, I see no reason not to, but overall it missed the mark for me.
This extension is amazing. The most beautiful and easy to use tab manager so far. My only wish is to have at least an option not to open it in every new tab, I'd rather have the manager tab pinned and have my favourite links open in the new tab. The biggest downturn is the subscription model, I remember I had an email once about lifetime purchase for 59$ when it was in beta but I thought it was quite expensive for a tab manager extension, considering that more features packed Eagle app for designers costs twice less. Therefore I’m switching to Raindrop as you can create as many groups and collections as you wish, the only nuisance is that it doesn't suppport tab groups, since it's a bookmark manager rather than a tab manager.
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| Version | 1.7.7 |
| Updated | Jun 5, 2024 |
| Size | 9.52MiB |
| First Seen | Mar 24, 2026 |