TabSense, Display All Chrome Tabs On A Single Page

Keeping track of all open tabs in a single browser window, or multiple browser windows, becomes increasingly difficulty with an increasing number of open tabs. Web browsers offer limited space to display open tabs, usually in a toolbar or sidebar. Once the limit is reached a scrollbar is added to navigate the open tabs. The issue becomes increasingly unclear if multiple browser windows are used at the same time.

The Google Chrome extension TabSense offers an overview of all open tabs in the Internet browser. The extension displays all open tabs, no matter if they are open in the active Chrome window or another Chrome instance.

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The Chrome extension adds a new icon to the address bar of the browser. A click on the icon opens a new tab displaying all open tabs in this browser window, and all other Chrome instances.

Each Chrome window is displayed separately on the page. It is furthermore possible to name each window on the page to distinguish the windows on first glance.

Each open tab is listed with the page’s favicon and name. A click on a name switches the active window to that tab, regardless whether it is a tab of the active window or another Chrome window. This only works if the Chrome instances are not minimized. The keyboard shortcut Shift-Ctrl-S did not work during our tests, the developer promised to make that shortcut customizable in future editions of the add-on.

Tabsense offers better tab management in Chrome, especially for users who work with lots of open tabs, or use multiple Chrome instances.

Newer versions of the Chrome extension show tabs in tree view that highlight where they have originated from. The core feature on the other hand is still that it provides you with an overview of all open tabs in all instances of the web browser.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Tuesday August 3, 2010 -
Tags:chrome instance, chrome tabs, google chrome, google chrome extensions, tabsense