Tab-less

Disables tabs for tab-less browsing

As of June 2026, Tab-less has 1,000 users and a 4.72/5 rating from 50 reviews in the Workflow & Planning category.

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Version
0.7.0
Manifest V3

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Screenshots

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About

This extension disables tabbed browsing. Rather than opening new tabs, your browser will open windows wherever possible.

* Why would you want to disable tabs?

Because I always find it difficult to find the tab I'm looking for. Tabs obscure the browsing experience, and I find it far easier to browse the web when I can see all of my windows at once. Most modern operating systems can arrange windows elegantly and efficiently, making tabs defunct.

* If you don't like tabs, then just don't use them! You don't need an extension for that

Increasingly, browsers force tabs on you by default. It does not provide an option to default to using windows rather than tabs. This extension overrides that behaviour to open windows instead, to make it seamless for users like myself.

* Why should I use Tab-less rather than New Tab, New Window?

1. Tab-less does not require any access to your browsing history at all (most extensions require access to your browsing history or the current page you're viewing).
2. It's designed to be as light-weight and simplistic as possible.
3. There's no magic, it just moves tabs to a new window, whenever they're opened (using the default settings for a new window).

All of the code for this extension is open-sourced and can be found online at https://github.com/iainbeeston/tab-less. I'd be happy to receive any feedback, hear about any bugs or accept any pull-requests for new code at that address.

Technical

Version
0.7.0
Manifest
V3
Size
10.1KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
1
Featured
No

Metadata

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Developer ID
u765fa016fc14d7c44a109b48f496ca50
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Mar 26, 2013
Last Updated (Store)
Jun 23, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 24, 2026
Website
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Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 24, 2026.