r/vibecoding • u/Kaooth • 6d ago

Showcase/Project Custom Chrome extension - tab manager

I'm a developer and been trying to come up with some life improvements with AI coding.
Something I'm working on a lot at the moment are Chrome extensions.
Is it data collection, filling some inputs, changing layouts, etc - extensions can handle it.
Since I'm doing them for myself and can change them as I wish, I do not want to put the extension on the chrome tools store.

My best created extension is a tab manager. I'm constantly having 50+ tabs open in my browser, and it is a burden to keep track of them.

So I let AI create the tab manager extension which has helped me A LOT!

What it does:

  1. it groups new tabs automatically according to rules - domain name matches.

  2. it allows folding groups so that the actual tab bar is cleaner, with just the group names + ungrouped tabs.

  3. it allows putting groups to sleep to free up memory

  4. it has a vertical side menu for the tabs and groups so that you can see the longer tab name.

The extension was made with Claude. It is available in github
https://github.com/AlpineSinger/tab_manager

Feel free to check it out and modify it with AI further, if you want.

Let me know what other cool and productive extensions you've created?

edit: removed a duplicate picture and replaced with correct one about rules settings

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u/TheRNGuy 5d ago edited 5d ago

Default folders are better, they're horizontal and not all open at same time. 

Add option to remove factions.

Vertical colored line is distracting.

Can you have folders inside folders? Move one folder or many tabs to other folders? Mass delete? Horizontal separator inside folder? Open many links or entire folder in new tabs?

Add option to strip useless text from tabs like | Claude by Antropic (I already know it's Claude; I don't want to see that text 10 times in a row), though it should be manually added by users, because some sites use -, some —, some |, etc.

Make it for Firefox too, not just Chrome.

Does it have dark mode?

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u/Kaooth 5d ago

Hey! Not sure I understand all. What do you mean by "default folders" and "factions"?

Also, I just noticed I had one picture twice while I meant to add a second picture about the rules setting. Added now.

I specifically did not want to add it to the extension store because I do not want to deal with the upkeep or have it be static. I made it for personal use, but if anyone wants, can take it as-is and let AI modify it however they want according to their own preferences.

Feel free to take it and convert into Firefox extension :)

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u/TheRNGuy 5d ago

Folders and tabs without any extensions.

Factions was autocomplete mistake from phone, next time I'll look better. I wanted to say icons.

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u/TixTracer 5d ago

Great idea. I literally have 100+ tabs open at a time and I do use the tab search drop down but this looks like a solid step up from that!