Smart Tab Groups

About

Smart Tab Groups organises your browser tabs automatically — no manual sorting, no drag-and-drop. Open a tab and it lands in the right group instantly.

HOW IT WORKS

Each group has a list of keywords. When a tab finishes loading, Smart Tab Groups checks its URL and title against those keywords and moves the tab into the matching group. If no match is found, the tab stays ungrouped — nothing is moved unexpectedly.

WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THE BOX

- 6 ready-made groups: Work, Social, Video, AI, Dev, Shopping
- Pre-configured keywords for your browser language (English, Russian, Polish, German, Spanish)
- Colour-coded groups that match Chrome's native tab group colours

KEY FEATURES

Automatic grouping — tabs are sorted the moment they finish loading, across all windows.

Right-click to reassign — made a mistake? Right-click anywhere on a page and choose "Move to group" to reassign instantly.

Regroup all tabs — one button in Settings runs the matching logic across every open tab at once. Useful after restoring a session or enabling the extension for the first time.

Import existing groups — if you already have Chrome tab groups, Smart Tab Groups detects them and offers to import them with one click.

Built-in stats — see which groups you use most, filtered by the last 7 days, 30 days, or all time.

RAM optimisation — optionally put inactive grouped tabs to sleep after a configurable idle time to reduce memory usage.

Full customisation — edit group names, colours, and keywords. Add new groups. Everything is stored locally, nothing is sent to any server.

Light and dark theme — the popup follows your system appearance automatically.

PRIVACY

Smart Tab Groups reads tab URLs and titles locally to match against your keyword lists. No data is collected, stored remotely, or shared with any third party. All settings are saved in chrome.storage.local on your device only.

The extension requests access to all URLs solely to read the URL of each tab for keyword matching. It does not inject scripts into pages, modify page content, or track browsing history beyond what is needed for grouping.

PERMISSIONS EXPLAINED

- tabs — to read the URL and title of each tab for grouping
- tabGroups — to create, update, and manage Chrome tab groups
- storage — to save your groups and settings locally
- bookmarks — to automatically add group tags to new bookmarks
- alarms — to run the RAM optimisation check periodically
- contextMenus — to add the "Move to group" right-click menu
- windows — to detect and clean up duplicate groups across windows