TabSquad

Tracking since May 13, 2026.

Changelog

• Jun 1, 2026
  description

  TabSquad turns a Chromium tab group into a "squad" of tabs that stay
  together, and gives you control over what happens to the links those
  tabs spawn.
  
  Routing rules
  
  For each tab group title, choose what happens when a new tab is
  opened from a link click, middle click, Cmd/Ctrl+click, window.open,
  or even from an external app handing a URL to your browser:
  
  - Do nothing (the browser default).
  - Rewrite the URL via a template and update the tab.  Useful for
    handing the link off to an external scheme handler (Hammerspoon,
    Choosy, Finicky, ...) that opens it in a different browser.
  - Move the tab to the same group's tail.
  - Move the tab to the current window's tail, outside the group.
  - Move the tab to a different normal window (creates one if there
    is none).
  - Move the tab into a named target tab group, creating it if needed.
  
  Each rule also picks when it applies, based on where the source
  tab sits:
  
  - In the group (the original behavior).
  - As an orphan -- a tab in the same window that does not belong
    to any group, e.g. one freshly opened by an external app.
  - In the group or as an orphan.
  
  Tabs sitting inside an unrelated group are never disturbed.
  
  Rules are matched by tab group title plus an optional URL regex.
  The matching engine evaluates local-only rules first so a
  machine-specific rule can override a synced one.  Navigations to
  the browser's own settings pages (chrome://, edge://, about:) and
  extension pages (chrome-extension://, moz-extension://) are skipped
  so they stay in the window where you opened them.
  
  Saved groups
  
  Capture the URLs of a tab group as a snapshot, edit them, and
  restore them later.  Restore does a diff-style update: tabs whose
  URL still matches stay in place, missing URLs open as new tabs, and
  tabs that are no longer in the snapshot are closed.  Snapshots
  travel with your browser profile sync.
  
  Privacy
  
  TabSquad does not run a server, does not collect analytics, and
  does not request any host permissions, so it cannot read the
  content of pages you visit.  All your settings live inside the
  browser's extension storage.
  
  Configuration
  
  Click the toolbar icon to open the options page.  Routing rules and
  saved groups can be exported and imported as JSON.
  
  Changelog
  
  ## [0.3.1] - 2026-05-15
  
  ### Fixed
  
  - Stop the handoff page from lingering in browser history
  
  ## [0.3.0] - 2026-05-14
  
  ### Changed
  
  - Split URL rewriting out of the action so rules can do both
  - Hand external-scheme rewrites off through a dedicated tab page
  
  ### Fixed
  
  - Stop leaving stray tabs after a rewrite to an external scheme
  
  ## [0.2.0] - 2026-05-13
  
  ### Added
  
  - Add "+ Add URL" button to saved groups
  
  ### Changed
  
  - Route orphan tabs and add source-scope condition to rules
  - Use git-cliff for GitHub Release notes
  
  ## [0.1.0] - 2026-05-11

  TabSquad turns a Chromium tab group into a "squad" of tabs that stay
  together, and gives you control over what happens to the links those
  tabs spawn.
  
  Routing rules
  
  For each tab group title, choose what happens when a new tab is
  opened from a link click, middle click, Cmd/Ctrl+click, window.open,
  or even from an external app handing a URL to your browser.
  
  A rule optionally rewrites the URL through a template first.  When
  the rewritten URL is a custom scheme (e.g. hammerspoon://) it is
  handed off to the OS handler and the tab is closed; when it stays
  an in-browser URL the tab navigates to it and then the action
  below applies to the new URL.
  
  Then choose an action:
  
  - Do nothing (the browser default).
  - Dismiss the tab (close it immediately).
  - Move the tab to the same group's tail.
  - Move the tab to the current window's tail, outside the group.
  - Move the tab to a different normal window (creates one if there
    is none).
  - Move the tab into a named target tab group, creating it if needed.
  
  Each rule also picks when it applies, based on where the source
  tab sits:
  
  - In the group (the original behavior).
  - As an orphan -- a tab in the same window that does not belong
    to any group, e.g. one freshly opened by an external app.
  - In the group or as an orphan.
  
  Tabs sitting inside an unrelated group are never disturbed.
  
  Rules are matched by tab group title plus an optional URL regex.
  The matching engine evaluates local-only rules first so a
  machine-specific rule can override a synced one.  Navigations to
  the browser's own settings pages (chrome://, edge://, about:) and
  extension pages (chrome-extension://, moz-extension://) are skipped
  so they stay in the window where you opened them.
  
  Saved groups
  
  Capture the URLs of a tab group as a snapshot, edit them, and
  restore them later.  Restore does a diff-style update: tabs whose
  URL still matches stay in place, missing URLs open as new tabs, and
  tabs that are no longer in the snapshot are closed.  Snapshots
  travel with your browser profile sync.
  
  Privacy
  
  TabSquad does not run a server, does not collect analytics, and
  does not request any host permissions, so it cannot read the
  content of pages you visit.  All your settings live inside the
  browser's extension storage.
  
  Configuration
  
  Click the toolbar icon to open TabSquad's options UI as a popup.
  The same page is also reachable as the regular "Extension options"
  entry in the browser's extension manager.  Routing rules and
  saved groups can be exported and imported as JSON.
  
  Changelog
  
  ## [0.4.0] - 2026-05-28
  
  ### Added
  
  - Show the options UI as a toolbar popup
  - Add a "Dismiss" action that closes the routed tab
  
  ## [0.3.1] - 2026-05-15
  
  ### Fixed
  
  - Stop the handoff page from lingering in browser history
  
  ## [0.3.0] - 2026-05-14
  
  ### Changed
  
  - Split URL rewriting out of the action so rules can do both
  - Hand external-scheme rewrites off through a dedicated tab page
  
  ### Fixed
  
  - Stop leaving stray tabs after a rewrite to an external scheme
  
  ## [0.2.0] - 2026-05-13
  
  ### Added
  
  - Add "+ Add URL" button to saved groups
  
  ### Changed
  
  - Route orphan tabs and add source-scope condition to rules
  - Use git-cliff for GitHub Release notes
  
  ## [0.1.0] - 2026-05-11

• May 18, 2026
  description

  TabSquad turns a Chromium tab group into a "squad" of tabs that stay
  together, and gives you control over what happens to the links those
  tabs spawn.
  
  Routing rules
  
  For each tab group title, choose what happens when one of its tabs
  opens a new tab via a link click, middle click, Cmd/Ctrl+click, or
  window.open:
  
  - Do nothing (the browser default).
  - Rewrite the URL via a template and update the tab.  Useful for
    handing the link off to an external scheme handler (Hammerspoon,
    Choosy, Finicky, ...) that opens it in a different browser.
  - Move the tab to the same group's tail.
  - Move the tab to the current window's tail, outside the group.
  - Move the tab to a different normal window (creates one if there
    is none).
  - Move the tab into a named target tab group, creating it if needed.
  
  Rules are matched by tab group title plus an optional URL regex.
  The matching engine evaluates local-only rules first so a
  machine-specific rule can override a synced one.
  
  Saved groups
  
  Capture the URLs of a tab group as a snapshot, edit them, and
  restore them later.  Restore does a diff-style update: tabs whose
  URL still matches stay in place, missing URLs open as new tabs, and
  tabs that are no longer in the snapshot are closed.  Snapshots
  travel with your browser profile sync.
  
  Privacy
  
  TabSquad does not run a server, does not collect analytics, and
  does not request any host permissions, so it cannot read the
  content of pages you visit.  All your settings live inside the
  browser's extension storage.
  
  Configuration
  
  Click the toolbar icon to open the options page.  Routing rules and
  saved groups can be exported and imported as JSON.

  TabSquad turns a Chromium tab group into a "squad" of tabs that stay
  together, and gives you control over what happens to the links those
  tabs spawn.
  
  Routing rules
  
  For each tab group title, choose what happens when a new tab is
  opened from a link click, middle click, Cmd/Ctrl+click, window.open,
  or even from an external app handing a URL to your browser:
  
  - Do nothing (the browser default).
  - Rewrite the URL via a template and update the tab.  Useful for
    handing the link off to an external scheme handler (Hammerspoon,
    Choosy, Finicky, ...) that opens it in a different browser.
  - Move the tab to the same group's tail.
  - Move the tab to the current window's tail, outside the group.
  - Move the tab to a different normal window (creates one if there
    is none).
  - Move the tab into a named target tab group, creating it if needed.
  
  Each rule also picks when it applies, based on where the source
  tab sits:
  
  - In the group (the original behavior).
  - As an orphan -- a tab in the same window that does not belong
    to any group, e.g. one freshly opened by an external app.
  - In the group or as an orphan.
  
  Tabs sitting inside an unrelated group are never disturbed.
  
  Rules are matched by tab group title plus an optional URL regex.
  The matching engine evaluates local-only rules first so a
  machine-specific rule can override a synced one.  Navigations to
  the browser's own settings pages (chrome://, edge://, about:) and
  extension pages (chrome-extension://, moz-extension://) are skipped
  so they stay in the window where you opened them.
  
  Saved groups
  
  Capture the URLs of a tab group as a snapshot, edit them, and
  restore them later.  Restore does a diff-style update: tabs whose
  URL still matches stay in place, missing URLs open as new tabs, and
  tabs that are no longer in the snapshot are closed.  Snapshots
  travel with your browser profile sync.
  
  Privacy
  
  TabSquad does not run a server, does not collect analytics, and
  does not request any host permissions, so it cannot read the
  content of pages you visit.  All your settings live inside the
  browser's extension storage.
  
  Configuration
  
  Click the toolbar icon to open the options page.  Routing rules and
  saved groups can be exported and imported as JSON.
  
  Changelog
  
  ## [0.3.1] - 2026-05-15
  
  ### Fixed
  
  - Stop the handoff page from lingering in browser history
  
  ## [0.3.0] - 2026-05-14
  
  ### Changed
  
  - Split URL rewriting out of the action so rules can do both
  - Hand external-scheme rewrites off through a dedicated tab page
  
  ### Fixed
  
  - Stop leaving stray tabs after a rewrite to an external scheme
  
  ## [0.2.0] - 2026-05-13
  
  ### Added
  
  - Add "+ Add URL" button to saved groups
  
  ### Changed
  
  - Route orphan tabs and add source-scope condition to rules
  - Use git-cliff for GitHub Release notes
  
  ## [0.1.0] - 2026-05-11

• May 18, 2026
  permissions

  tabs, tabGroups, webNavigation, storage

  tabs, tabGroups, webNavigation, storage, history

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Permissions

tabstabGroupswebNavigationstoragehistory

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