Tab Shelf - Side panel vertical tabs

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13 support issues

DS2902

Aug 16, 2025

нет иконок сайтов

Сделайте поддержку для браузера Opera. Сейчас там можно добавить ваше расширение в боковую панель только вручную. Но есть баг, что не отображаются иконки сайтов.

silv3r arr0w

Jul 17, 2025

Suggestions on ui improvement

The ui of tab group and tab control buttons takes up too much space, which reduces the information density. Many people who use such extensions have the need to use screen space as much as possible, but the ui of this extension sometimes can't meet this requirement very well. You can refer to another extension: vertitab. I have used both for a long time and I prefer this one, which is great in many aspects, but the ui problem is one of the few weaknesses I can point out.

Mul Doons

May 8, 2025

Tab Group colors keep resetting

Tab Groups forget their custom colors occasionally and reset to a prior state. It's very time consuming to reset the colors manually for 30+ groups, so it would be great if the custom color feature was more reliable. I love the extension, but I'm looking for alternatives because I've had to reset the colors 3 times already in less than a week of using the extension and it's not feasible to keep doing this all time.

Sky Long

Nov 18, 2024

Modifiable text color

Ability to modify text color or darken existing text color

Night Call

Nov 17, 2024

Save windows/sessions/groups and deduplicate tabs like the open-source extension TabTabTab

Thanks for making the best vertical tab extension for Chrome - something that Vivaldi, Edge and Arc have, but Chrome doesn't. Here are two features that would be nice:

- Save and export windows/sessions/groups,
- Deduplicate tabs.

The open source extension TabTabTab is similar to Tab Shelf and has a good implementation of these features.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/tabtabtab-all-in-one-tab/hfmnidllojimehmfjkclnadpebibhgoi

https://github.com/okaryo/TabTabTab/

Naftoli Gugenheim

Oct 7, 2024

Ctrl+Shift+P not working

At least on my system (Fedora Linux, both GNOME and KDE), Ctrl+Shift+P opens the Print dialog (Ctrl+P opens Chrome's print panel, while Ctrl+Shift+P opens the native OS print dialog).

kristina marie

Sep 13, 2024

Causing Glitch in Google Docs

Hi! I love tab shelf and have been using it for a while with no issues, but since I got a new computer (macbook air) I noticed the italic shortcut (command + i) on Google Docs is not working, all other shortcuts are however. I have isolated the glitch to be from this extension through turning all off and going through them one-by-one. Just wondering if this is a known issue or if there is any kind of update/fix? Thank you!

David Lewis

Aug 13, 2024

Reopen closed tab?

That would be a great feature to put in Tab Shelf, since it is quite important, and chrome's function is way off to the side. I'd rather see it closer at hand. And, my long-term hope is to completely eliminate the need for chrome's tab bar --- in fact, if there is a way to hide chrome's tab bar without closing tabs, that would be super.

Don't implement anything along these lines yet -- I want to think through my suggestions for all the various menus a bit more, but I am occupied the rest of the day.

David Lewis

Aug 13, 2024

What is sleep?

What happens when I sleep a tab? Is it what Chrome calls "inactive" in chrome://settings/performance under memory, that is, it frees up memory? If so, then is what your sleep function does is force a tab inactive right now? Or something else? This: "Sleep the tab (this will free up your computer's resources)" in the user manual suggests it's just forcing inactive.

If so, then I'm not sure it's worth the space on the context menu. That space is *extremely* valuable, since there is a limited amount of it. Sleep is not a behavior issue, it's about performance. And chrome already manages that on a global basis. Ideally users should not have to constantly attend to performance issues. You've got a "sleep all" function in the bottom bar, which is terrific, because if I am having performance problems, I can quickly see if it's at all related to tabs in general. And then I can make tabs awake/active one at a time, exactly as needed just by clicking on them, which is the perfect behavior. But being able to sleep/inactivate a particular tab is not that helpful -- unless I suspect one tab of being a particular memory, CPU or storage-access hog. (If you really want to get fancy, you could somehow monitor and display tab resource usage, and all kinds of stuff -- but that's a big job, and I'm not even sure the tools exist.)

More thought to come, especially about space on the context menu.

Thanks for your extremely fast response to suggestions! Knowing how quickly you act, however, makes me a little skittish about suggestions, because sometimes it's worthwhile to ponder a new feature idea a bit before implementing -- to see how it fits in the overall picture.

Matt Cody

Jun 8, 2024

Sync or export tab shelf

Is there a way to backup, sync, or export tab shelf settings and rules please? That way I can potentially move them across machines, or across different Google accounts.