Contextual Tab Groups - Auto create groups when opening a new tab

Tracking since Apr 18, 2026.

Changelog

• Apr 18, 2026
  description

  Full Support: Chrome, MSEdge, Brave, NaverWhale
  Will not work on: Opera, Opera GX, Vivaldi, Kiwi, Quetta (or similar mobile browsers)
  
  This extension helps you manage your tabs automatically and conveniently!
  
  ✅ Automatic Tab Groups Creation (Custom Tab Group Names)
     - Default & Search Engine tabs can be set differently!
     - Supports setting Tab Group names to your search query!
     - Supports Placeholders!
     - Set custom name for each domain!
  ✅ Fully compatible with non-English URLs! (Punycode Domains)
  ✅ Auto Disband Groups with only 1 tabs (togglable)
  ✅ Alt+T Shortcut to open newtab in current/new tab group (shortcut changable/deletable)
  
  Extension Options: https://github.com/SpookyKipper/ContextualTabGroups?tab=readme-ov-file#extension-options
  
  This extension is open source: https://github.com/SpookyKipper/ContextualTabGroups
  
  Permissions Justifications:
  tabs: Detect Newly open tabs. Group Tabs, Ungroup Tabs, Detect Tab Removal Event, Detect Tab Groups with only 1 tab in it
  tabGroups: List All Tab Groups for Detecting Tab Groups with only 1 tab in it
  storage: To store the data of extension options
  unlimitedStorage:To store a large amount of custom rules to bind hostnames to tab group names

  Full Support: Chrome, MSEdge, Brave, NaverWhale
  Extra Setup needed: Opera, Opera GX (See GitHub)
  Will not work on: Vivaldi, Kiwi, Quetta (or similar mobile browsers)
  
  This extension helps you manage your tabs automatically and conveniently!
  
  ✅ Automatic Tab Groups Creation (Custom Tab Group Names)
     - Default & Search Engine tabs can be set differently!
     - Supports setting Tab Group names to your search query!
     - Supports Placeholders!
     - Set custom name for each domain!
  ✅ Fully compatible with non-English URLs! (Punycode Domains)
  ✅ Auto Disband Groups with only 1 tabs (togglable)
  ✅ Alt+T Shortcut to open newtab in current/new tab group (shortcut changable/deletable)
  
  Extension Options: https://github.com/SpookyKipper/ContextualTabGroups?tab=readme-ov-file#extension-options
  
  This extension is open source: https://github.com/SpookyKipper/ContextualTabGroups
  
  Permissions Justifications:
  tabs: Detect Newly open tabs. Group Tabs, Ungroup Tabs, Detect Tab Removal Event, Detect Tab Groups with only 1 tab in it
  tabGroups: List All Tab Groups for Detecting Tab Groups with only 1 tab in it
  storage: To store the data of extension options
  unlimitedStorage:To store a large amount of custom rules to bind hostnames to tab group names
  webNavigation: To verify that the new tab is opened from an existing tab (genuine openerTab), and not from a computer desktop shortcut or external app

• Apr 18, 2026
  permissions

  tabs, tabGroups, storage, unlimitedStorage

  tabs, tabGroups, storage, unlimitedStorage, webNavigation

Permissions & access

Permissions

tabstabGroupsstorageunlimitedStoragewebNavigation

Host access

None declared

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