Tabivore closes the tab you opened from a link with a back swipe, and keeps everything else on a calm shelf on your new tab page.
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1 · Swipe back to close
Open a link in a new tab, read it, then swipe back with two fingers on the trackpad: the drop pulls out of the screen edge, the tab closes and the page you came from is there. A tab you opened yourself is never closed by the swipe — it works only on a tab that was opened from a link.
2 · The shelf
Stash the current tab with one click, a shortcut or the context menu, and keep it open or close it to free its memory. Stash a whole tab group and open it again as a real group. Save a quote from a page with a note of your own.
3 · The new tab page
Choose which blocks the page shows and in how many columns: keep only groups and stashed tabs, or put bookmarks back. Light and dark themes and five colour schemes: Nord, Tokyo Night, Catppuccin, Solarized, Gruvbox.
A green check on the page confirms it. Or right-click the page, or click the toolbar icon.
The keys can be changed at chrome://extensions/shortcuts. One-off variants (stash and keep open, stash and close) can be given keys there too.
Stash a whole group with its name and colour and open it later as a real tab group.
Select text, right-click, and keep the quote with a note of your own.
Export and import as a JSON file, or turn on an automatic daily backup into a folder you choose.
Hide blocks, choose one to three columns, set the order.
Off by default. Tabs you have not opened for a time you choose go to the shelf.
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Everything stays on your device. No account, no server, no ads. The extension makes no network requests of its own, and tabs from private windows are never stashed.
That notice is shown to people with Enhanced protection turned on for developers who have not yet built up a history in the Chrome Web Store. Google says new developers typically need a few months to earn that status. It is not a finding about the code. Tabivore makes no network requests of its own, and what it keeps stays in your browser; the privacy policy lists every permission and what it is for.
A small script runs on web pages only to recognize the back swipe and to show the extension’s own hint and note field. It does not read the content of pages and sends nothing anywhere. It can be switched off for the sites you choose.
The gesture was tuned on a MacBook trackpad. Other trackpads and mice with a horizontal wheel may need a different swipe length: it can be changed in the settings. Everything else works everywhere.
Chromium-based browsers: Chrome, Edge, Brave. Firefox and Safari are not supported.
Export it as a JSON file in the settings and import it on the other one. There is no sync service by design.
There is a “Report a problem…” button in the settings. It copies a short report with no addresses or notes to your clipboard and opens the feedback page.
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