TabSquad

TabSquad turns a Chromium tab group into a "squad" of tabs that stay together, and gives you control over what happens to the links those tabs spawn. Routing rules For each tab group title, choose what happens when a new tab is opened from a link click, middle click, Cmd/Ctrl+click, window.open, or even from an external app handing a URL to your browser. A rule optionally rewrites the URL through a template first. When the rewritten URL is a custom scheme (e.g. hammerspoon://) it is handed off to the OS handler and the tab is closed; when it stays an in-browser URL the tab navigates to it and then the action below applies to the new URL. Then choose an action: - Do nothing (the browser default). - Dismiss the tab (close it immediately). - Move the tab to the same group's tail. - Move the tab to the current window's tail, outside the group. - Move the tab to a different normal window (creates one if there is none). - Move the tab into a named target tab group, creating it if needed. Each rule also picks when it applies, based on where the source tab sits: - In the group (the original behavior). - As an orphan -- a tab in the same window that does not belong to any group, e.g. one freshly opened by an external app. - In the group or as an orphan. Tabs sitting inside an unrelated group are never disturbed. Rules are matched by tab group title plus an optional URL regex. The matching engine evaluates local-only rules first so a machine-specific rule can override a synced one. Navigations to the browser's own settings pages (chrome://, edge://, about:) and extension pages (chrome-extension://, moz-extension://) are skipped so they stay in the window where you opened them. Saved groups Capture the URLs of a tab group as a snapshot, edit them, and restore them later. Restore does a diff-style update: tabs whose URL still matches stay in place, missing URLs open as new tabs, and tabs that are no longer in the snapshot are closed. Snapshots travel with your browser profile sync. Privacy TabSquad does not run a server, does not collect analytics, and does not request any host permissions, so it cannot read the content of pages you visit. All your settings live inside the browser's extension storage. Configuration Click the toolbar icon to open TabSquad's options UI as a popup. The same page is also reachable as the regular "Extension options" entry in the browser's extension manager. Routing rules and saved groups can be exported and imported as JSON. Changelog ## [0.4.0] - 2026-05-28 ### Added - Show the options UI as a toolbar popup - Add a "Dismiss" action that closes the routed tab ## [0.3.1] - 2026-05-15 ### Fixed - Stop the handoff page from lingering in browser history ## [0.3.0] - 2026-05-14 ### Changed - Split URL rewriting out of the action so rules can do both - Hand external-scheme rewrites off through a dedicated tab page ### Fixed - Stop leaving stray tabs after a rewrite to an external scheme ## [0.2.0] - 2026-05-13 ### Added - Add "+ Add URL" button to saved groups ### Changed - Route orphan tabs and add source-scope condition to rules - Use git-cliff for GitHub Release notes ## [0.1.0] - 2026-05-11