Tab Tier

Smart tab lifecycle management for your browser

🗂️ Tab Tier — Smart Tab Lifecycle Management Tired of having 50+ tabs open and your browser eating all your RAM? Tab Tier is the first browser extension that automatically manages your tabs through an intelligent tiered lifecycle system. Unlike other tab managers that simply close your tabs or group them by domain, Tab Tier keeps ALL your tabs accessible while intelligently organizing them based on actual usage patterns. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ HOW IT WORKS Tab Tier automatically categorizes your tabs into 5 tiers based on how actively you use them: 🔴 T0 — Fixed: Your essential tabs (Gmail, Slack, Notion). Always pinned, never demoted. 🟠 T1 — Active: Tabs you're currently working with. Fully loaded and ready. 🟡 T2 — Warm: Tabs idle for 1+ hour. Still in the tab bar but suspended. 🔵 T3 — Cold: Tabs inactive for 24+ hours. Grouped and minimized. ⚫ T4 — Archive: Tabs untouched for 7+ days. Removed from tab bar, saved for later. Tabs automatically move between tiers as you use them. Open an archived tab? It jumps right back to T1. Stop using an active tab? It gradually moves down. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ KEY FEATURES ✅ Automatic Tier Management — Tabs move between tiers based on your actual usage. No manual sorting needed. ✅ Smart Tab Groups — Each tier gets its own color-coded group in the tab bar (T0: red, T1: orange, T2: yellow, T3: blue). ✅ Drag & Drop — Drag tabs between tier groups to manually promote or demote them. The extension syncs instantly. ✅ T0 Fixed Tabs — Pin your essential tabs (email, chat, tools) to T0. They never get demoted. ✅ Customizable Timers — Set exactly how long before tabs move between tiers. Default: T1→T2 after 60 min, T2→T3 after 24 hours, T3→T4 after 7 days. ✅ Tab Management Dashboard — Full overview of all your tabs with search, filter, sort, and bulk actions. ✅ Duplicate Detection — Automatically detects and handles duplicate tabs. ✅ Onboarding Wizard — Easy first-time setup to select your T0 (essential) tabs. ✅ Memory Optimization — Reduces browser memory usage by managing inactive tabs efficiently. ✅ Privacy First — All data stored locally. No data sent to external servers. Ever. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ WHY TAB TIER? Other tab managers: ❌ Close your tabs and save them to a list (OneTab style) ❌ Group tabs by domain only ❌ Require manual organization ❌ Lose your tab state and scroll position Tab Tier: ✅ Keeps ALL tabs accessible — nothing gets closed unless you want it to ✅ Organizes by actual usage, not just domain ✅ Works automatically — set it and forget it ✅ Preserves tab state through the lifecycle ✅ Visual tier groups right in your tab bar ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ CUSTOMIZATION ⚙️ Adjust tier transition timers (minutes, hours, days) ⚙️ Choose what happens with duplicate tabs ⚙️ Customize group names for each tier ⚙️ Control behavior when tabs are manually closed ⚙️ Set T4 auto-delete period (or keep forever) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ PERMISSIONS Tab Tier only requests the minimum permissions needed: • tabs — To manage and monitor your browser tabs • storage — To save your settings and tab data locally • alarms — For scheduled tier transitions We do NOT collect any personal data. Everything stays on your device. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ OPEN SOURCE Tab Tier is open source! View the code, report bugs, or contribute: https://github.com/benvesa-llc/tab-tier ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ SUPPORT If you find Tab Tier useful, consider supporting the project: ⭐ Star us on GitHub ☕ Sponsor us: https://github.com/sponsors/benvesa-llc ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Made with ❤️ by Benvesa LLC