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Side Tabs. A Chrome extension that moves your open tabs to a sidebar instead of the top bar.

github.com/paulirish/chrome-side-tabs-extension

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Updates

January 2026
  • Merge branch 'master' of github.com:paulirish/chrome-side-tabs-extension
December 2025
  • icon
  • save to file
September 2025
  • expose
July 2025
  • throttle loadTabs
August 2024
  • space at the end so closing tabs always scrolls the content the same way
October 2023
  • sort by url/title buttons. hacky
September 2023
  • fix margin/padding. add scrolltotab button
  • zebra stripe windows. dont show pinnedtabs header if theres none
  • scrollintoview fix
  • drop web accessible resources
  • max height
  • mv3. it works. todo: screen.height shit. and null.scrollIntoView
  • scrollintoview. dont show some buttons. my defaults
  • drop sass
May 2021
  • slightly better perf
  • also search tab urls
  • type=search even tho its useless
June 2020
  • disable window resizing entirely.
February 2019
  • install instructions