Tab Modifier

Take control of your tabs.

Features

• Rename tab
• Change tab icon
• Pin tab
• Prevent tab closing
• Unique tab
• Mute tab

Quick rename can be done by right-clicking anywhere in the page and click on "Rename Tab".

Why?

I needed a quick UI element in Chrome to know the environment of the tab, as a Web developer I often use multiple versions of the same website: local, pre-production and production.

Not easy to find the appropriate tab when you have multiple tabs called "My awesome website".

I created Tab Modifier to add prefixes to website titles with a specific match.

• [DEV] My awesome website: .local.domain.com
• [PREPROD] My awesome website: .preprod.domain.com
• [PROD] My awesome website: .domain.com

After that, I have added more features like "auto-pin", custom favicons and more.

Focused scope

Tab Modifier is based on user rules and act on the tab URL that matches the first seen rule.

Aware of that, there is no reason to include a feature that is not "rule-based". Prefer to install specific extensions.

Installation

Install from the Chrome Web Store.

Also available for Opera Browser.

Not available for Firefox, refer to #46.

Usage

• Click on the icon to open Options.
• Create your tab rules.
• Try & enjoy!

Demo

Before

After

• Youtube tab has been modified: use Google icon and pinned state.
• My Website tabs have been modified: use a prefix in title.
• Twitter tab has been modified: use default Chrome icon (white paper) and renamed to "I'm working hard!".

Options

Tab Rules

Tab Rules Form

Settings

Examples

You have infinite possibilities, here are some configurations:

Pin all tabs:

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: http
• Pinned: ON

Say hello to all Google websites:

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: google.com
• Title: Hello Google: {title}

Disguise GitHub as Google

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: github.com
• Title: Google
• Icon: https://www.google.com/favicon.ico

Prevent accidental tab closure:

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: important-website.com
• Protected: ON

Mute all Youtube videos by default:

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: youtube.com
• Mute: ON

Set blank icon on Pinterest:

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: pinterest.com
• Icon: select "Chrome > Default"

Get only one GMail tab opened at once:

• Detection: Starts with
• URL fragment: https://mail.google.com
• Unique: ON

Pin all PNG images (useless):

• Detection: Ends with
• URL fragment: .png
• Pinned: ON

Customize title with HTML selector and Regexp:

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: github.com
• Title: {title} | $2 by $1
• URL matcher: github[.]com/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)

Tab title will be: "sylouuu/chrome-tab-modifier: Take control of your tabs | chrome-tab-modifier by sylouuu"

Match GitHub repositories:

• Detection: RegExp
• URL fragment: github[.]com/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)/([A-Za-z0-9_-]+)
• Title: I got you GitHub!

Customize GMail title with Title matcher and URL matcher:

• Detection: Contains
• URL fragment: mail.google.com
• Title: @0 | $0
• Title matcher: [a-z]*@gmail.com
• URL matcher: [a-z]*.google.com

Tab title will be: "youremail@gmail.com | mail.google.com"

And now, build your own... 💪

Ideas

• Require password after inactivity.

Known issues

Local icon path doesn't work

Related issue: #5

Due to browser security restrictions, this path won't work: `file://