One shortcut opens a search box over everything your browser holds: open tabs, bookmarks, history, recently closed tabs and your saved workspaces. Type three letters, hit enter, you are there. Then close the forty tabs you did not need from the same list.
The tab bar is not a filing system. It is a list of things you might need, in roughly the order you opened them, growing until you cannot tell which of the fourteen GitHub tabs is the one you wanted. Every few hours you close them all, lose the three you needed, and start again. ArkTabs replaces the tab bar as your index. Everything is in one searchable list, ordered by how often you actually go there rather than by when you found it. You find the tab, switch to it, and close everything else without leaving the search box. The whole loop is a keyboard shortcut and a few characters.
The default state of doing real work. If finding the right tab has become the bottleneck, this removes it in one keystroke.
Forty sources open at once, and the ones you need back tomorrow but not today. Snooze the lot, find them again in the morning.
RAM is the constraint. Keep twenty projects open by suspending the nineteen you are not working on right now.
A workspace for the sites you open every day, scheduled to launch on its own. You sit down and the environment is already there.
You open the same handful of sites every morning in the same order. That should be one action, not twelve clicks.
A ranking algorithm that learns your browsing patterns and predicts what you need. The more you use it, the smarter it gets.
Fuzzy search across open tabs, bookmarks, history, recently closed tabs and workspaces. Finds things even when you misspell them.
Arrows to move, Enter to jump, Alt+X to close. Alt+L for last tab, Alt+J and Alt+K to walk your most-recently-used tabs.
Closed the window by accident? The last session is at the top of the list, ready to restore.
Suspend inactive tabs to free RAM. They stay open and findable without costing you memory.
Close a tab now and have it reappear later. Park the research, keep working, get it back when you need it.
Find every duplicate tab and close them all in one click.
Close tabs directly from the search results. Focus Mode closes everything except your current tab.
Close every tab from one domain in a single action. Domain-level control, not just tab-level.
Save collections of websites under meaningful names, like Morning Routine or Project Docs.
Open every site in a workspace at once, straight from the search results. Start a session in seconds.
Set a workspace to open automatically at a given time. Your routine is already running when you arrive.
New and existing tabs move into their designated groups automatically, based on your rules.
Define your own rules. Group every search engine together, keep work domains in one colour.
Groups collapse and expand, so the important tabs stay front and centre instead of drowning in noise.
Everything runs in your browser. Your tabs, your history and your bookmarks never leave your computer, because there is nowhere for them to go. No analytics, no telemetry, no data collection of any kind, and no accounts, because accounts exist to collect something. This is a browser extension built by a developer who would rather ship software that does not need to know who you are. If it could be phished out of your browser and read on a server, it is not in ArkTabs.
Advanced launcher mode, live tab previews, power actions and premium themes. Currently free; pricing changes after launch.
What browsers does it work in?
Chromium-based browsers, installed from the Chrome Web Store. That covers Chrome, Edge, Brave and Opera.
Is it really free?
Yes. The tab manager is free with no account and no card. Plus adds advanced features and is currently free during launch on a pay-what-you-want model, so right now it costs nothing at all. Pricing changes after launch.
Does it need an account?
No. There is no sign-up, no login, and no server holding anything. Install it and press Alt+P.
Can my browsing data leave my computer?
No. There is no analytics, no telemetry and no data collection. Everything runs locally in your browser, so your tabs, history and bookmarks never go anywhere.
What does memory management actually do?
It suspends tabs you are not using, which frees the RAM they were holding while keeping them open and searchable. Your twenty open projects stop costing you a slow browser.
I use a tiling window manager. Will it work?
Yes, but Advanced Launcher Mode needs the popup told to float and centre. For i3 add floating enable and move position center for the window titled ArkTabs. For bspwm add a rule marking ArkTabs floating and centred. For awesome, add a rule with floating true and centred placement.
Install it, press Alt+P, and type three letters. Everything you have open, everything you have saved, everything you closed by accident, in one list, ranked by what you actually use.