TabQ

About

TabQ — Numbered tab favicons

Chrome already lets you jump straight to a tab with Ctrl+1 through Ctrl+9 (Cmd+1–9 on Mac) — but nothing tells you which tab is which. TabQ fixes that by drawing the tab's position number right onto its favicon: a small white circle with a light-blue number in the corner.

Now a single glance is all it takes to know exactly where each shortcut will land.

WHY YOU'LL LIKE IT
• Navigate by muscle memory — see that Ctrl/Cmd+3 goes to your email, +5 to your calendar, and so on.
• Zero setup — install it and your first nine tabs are numbered instantly.
• Stays out of your way — no popups, no notifications, no clutter.

FEATURES
• Numbers the first 9 tabs in every window (1–9), matching Chrome's built-in jump shortcuts.
• Updates instantly as you open, close, drag, reorder, or move tabs between windows.
• Keeps the badge in place even when a site changes its own favicon — like Gmail, Slack, or Discord showing unread counts.
• Lightweight and fast: Manifest V3, no background polling, no dependencies.

PRIVACY FIRST
• No accounts, no tracking, no analytics, no servers.
• TabQ never reads your browsing history, tab URLs, or page content.
• Favicons are fetched without your cookies and composited locally in your browser. Nothing ever leaves your device.

OPEN SOURCE
TabQ is free and open source under the MIT license. Read every line, report an issue, or contribute:
https://github.com/thisisdkyadav/tabq

GOOD TO KNOW
• Protected pages such as chrome:// settings and the Chrome Web Store can't run extensions, so they can't be badged — the keyboard shortcut still jumps to them.
• Badges are single digits 1–9, matching the nine available shortcuts.

Category

Workflow & Planning (best fit). Alternatives if you prefer: Tools or Functionality & UI.

Language

• TabQ never reads your browsing history, tab URLs, or page content.
• Favicons are fetched without your cookies and composited locally in your browser. Nothing ever leaves your device.

OPEN SOURCE
TabQ is free and open source under the MIT license. Read every line, report an issue, or contribute:
https://github.com/thisisdkyadav/tabq

GOOD TO KNOW
• Protected pages such as chrome:// settings and the Chrome Web Store can't run extensions, so they can't be badged — the keyboard shortcut still jumps to them.
• Badges are single digits 1–9, matching the nine available shortcuts.