Tabs & Chrome Groups

Live, not saved

The Tabs view mirrors whatever is actually open in your browser right now — every tab and every Chrome tab group, across all windows. It's a live reflection of browser state, not something TabSlate has saved on your behalf: close a tab and it disappears from this view along with the browser, the same as it would without the extension installed.

This is what separates tabs from the two things you deliberately keep:

• A bookmark is a page you've explicitly saved into a collection (see Bookmarks).
• A saved group is a snapshot of a Chrome tab group you've explicitly told TabSlate to remember, so you can close the tabs and reopen the whole set later (see Saved Groups).

Grouping tabs

Drag a tab onto another tab to group them, or use the group card's controls to join more tabs in. Every group you create is a real Chrome tab group — the same feature you'd see if you grouped tabs through Chrome's own tab strip — so it stays grouped in the browser itself, not just inside TabSlate.

Groups use Chrome's own nine tab-group colors (grey, blue, red, yellow, green, pink, purple, cyan, orange), picked from the same color swatch Chrome itself uses.

Compact titles

Each group has a Compact toggle. Turning it on shrinks the group's title as Chrome displays it down to a single character (the first letter of the group's name), which keeps a browser window with many groups from being crowded out by long titles — while TabSlate remembers and shows the full name everywhere in the dashboard. Turning it back off restores the full title in Chrome's tab strip.

Limitations

Grouping and its controls (rename, recolor, compact titles, dissolve, close) are available wherever TabSlate runs, but Chrome's native tab-group behavior isn't identical on every browser. Don't assume group appearance or behavior carries over exactly between browsers — Firefox's own tab-group support, for instance, only arrived in more recent versions and follows Firefox's own conventions rather than Chrome's.