Outline Tab Manager

About

Outline Tab Manager gives Chrome a tree-style view of all your tabs so you can manage big browsing sessions efficiently. Key capabilities include:

Hierarchical tab tree:
 It tracks parent/child relationships, so tabs opened from a page appear nested under their parent, letting you expand/collapse branches to stay organized.

Pinned tab enhancements:
 Pin tabs into color-coded “groups,” rename them, and drag them around with custom ordering while preserving their original structure.

Side-panel controls:
 From the panel you can search, multi-select, drag/drop to reorder or reparent tabs, duplicate, close branches, or convert between pinned/normal tabs.

“Open all links” workflow:
 Extract all links on the current page, filter them through an exclusion list, choose which to open, and let the extension open them in batches with progress, pause/resume, and cancellation.

Bookmarking and grouping tools:
 Quickly bookmark selected tabs, move them into Chrome tab groups, or assign them to saved pinned-group presets.

Persistent state & styling:
 Keeps tree structure across sessions, offers a custom tooltip system, adjustable split views in the panel, locale overrides, and background/pinned-tab settings via the options page.

Overall it combines hierarchical tab management, batch operations, and tailored UI elements (context menus, tooltips, progress bars) to make working with dozens or hundreds of tabs more manageable.


2025-12-01
Version: 1.0.5.6

**Fixes**
Removed chrome://favicon2/?size=16&pageUrl=... from the favicon search path, as it is not allowed to access from the side panel.

**Feature improvements**
When a Chrome tab is pinned or unpinned, corresponding tab in outline-tab-manager will also be pinned or unpinned.


2025-11-30
Version: 1.0.4.5

**Fixes**
-Changed the tab borders in the tab tree from only the bottom side to all around.
-Fixed an issue where changing the side panel background color from settings did not update the background color beneath the tab tree.
-Set tab colors and right-click menu color to white in light mode and gray in dark mode.
-Fixed a problem where the close button width became too narrow when the page title was long.
-Fixed the "Not allowed to load local resource: chrome://favicon2/?" error.


2025-11-26
Version: 1.0.4.0

**New Feature: **
- Font size of tab labels and the padding around the text in the tab tree can be configured from the settings page.  

**Feature Improvements: **
1. Changed so that the border color of pinned tabs remains clearly visible even when the pinned tab is selected and highlighted.  
2. Modified so that the tab’s name is updated at the point when the title, URL, or icon metadata changes.  
3. Modified so that when a tab is added to the top of the tab tree, the upper tab tree window scrolls to display the new tab; and when a tab is added to the bottom, the lower tab tree window scrolls to display it. Other tab tree windows will not scroll.  
4. Since there are cases where the favicon is not displayed, the retrieval order has been modified to include the browser’s internal favicon cache path: tab.favIconUrl -> chrome://favicon2/?size=16&pageUrl=... -> Google S2 -> default icon attempted in this sequence.