TumbleTab

TumbleTab will cycle through your custom playlist at the time interval(s) you set — save and reload as many named playlists as you like. 💠 How it works 💠 1. Click the TumbleTab toolbar icon — it opens the configuration page. Use the Light / Dark / Auto toggle in the top-right corner to set the interface's theme; “Auto” follows your OS's light/dark setting and updates live if that changes. Your choice is remembered next time you open TumbleTab, and also applies to TumbleTab's own feed reader page. 2. Enter URLs, one per row, drag the ⋮⋮ handle to reorder them. 3. Either give every row its own interval, or turn on “Use the same interval for all URLs” and set a single global interval (default 15s). While that toggle is on, individual row durations are greyed out and locked. 4. Optionally check “Fullscreen when started” — this puts the browser window itself into fullscreen (like pressing F11), not just the page content. 5. Give the playlist a name and click Save to keep it around, or + New to start a fresh one. Use the “Load saved…” dropdown to switch between saved playlists, and Delete to remove the one you're currently viewing. If you change the name before hitting Save, it saves as a new playlist rather than overwriting the one you started from. 6. Export downloads the playlist you're currently editing as a .json file (this is TumbleTab's own format, and re-importing it restores everything — URLs, durations, fullscreen setting). Import loads a file in as a new saved playlist, named after the file itself (minus its extension). It accepts: - a TumbleTab .json export, or a plain JSON array of URLs / {url, value, unit} objects - an exported browser bookmarks file (.html) — every link in it is added, using the default interval - a .csv file — one URL per line, optionally followed by ,duration,unit (e.g. https://example.com,30,sec) 7. Click Start Playlist. The current tab starts cycling through your URLs in order, looping back to the top when it reaches the end. The tab's title stays fixed as “TumbleTab” throughout — including on pages that try to change their own title after loading — rather than switching to each site's title as it cycles through. 8. While it's running, move your mouse to the top of the page to reveal a small ✕ button in the corner, or just press Esc. Either one stops the rotation and returns you to the TumbleTab configuration page. Press the right arrow or left arrow key at any time to jump to the next or previous URL immediately, without stopping the playlist. 9. Clicking a link on any page while a playlist is running opens it in a new tab instead of navigating away — the playlist keeps cycling in the original tab untouched. (Ctrl/Cmd/Shift-click and middle-click still behave normally, since those already mean “open in a new tab” on their own.) Links inside TumbleTab's own feed reader always open in a new tab this way, whether or not a playlist is running. If the browser window is fullscreen at the time (from the “Fullscreen when started” option), it exits fullscreen first so the new tab is actually visible, and stays out of fullscreen for the rest of that playlist run. Whatever you're editing is saved automatically as you type, whether or not you've explicitly saved it as a named playlist, so it's still there next time you open TumbleTab. Check "Start automatically on a schedule" to have a saved playlist start on its own at a set time and on whichever days you toggle on (Sun–Sat) — handy for something like an office dashboard that should start rotating at 9am on weekdays. The schedule is saved as part of the playlist, alongside its URLs and fullscreen setting. Separately, check "Stop automatically at a time" to give a playlist a daily cutoff — say 6pm — after which it stops itself if it's still running. Saved playlists sync across any devices signed into the same Chrome profile, the same way bookmarks or extensions do — nothing is sent to TumbleTab's developer or any third party. 💠 RSS and Atom feeds 💠 Add a feed's own URL (RSS, Atom, or RSS 1.0/RDF) to a playlist row like any other link. When you land on a page that's actually a feed, TumbleTab shows a clean, readable list of the feed's entries instead of the raw XML Chrome would normally show: title, date, and a short summary for each, with the entry title linking through to the full article. Pages that aren't a feed are left completely alone. This isn't limited to playback — it applies any time you land on a raw feed URL in Chrome while TumbleTab is installed, not just while a playlist is running. If a page's Content-Type looks like a feed but turns out not to actually be one, TumbleTab sends you back to the original page rather than leaving you stuck on an empty reader view. 💠 Changelog 💠 Visit https://scottatkins.rocks/tumbletab-changelog for more information and full release history.