Stash Tabs Chrome Extension

Close + save the tabs you don't need at the moment. A lightweight solution to the problem of too many tabs..

When you stash tabs, they get closed and saved as a stash in the extension popup.

If you click that stash, the opposite happens: the stash is removed from the popup and the tabs are reopened.

When you have a bunch of tabs open that you arent closing just because you need to get back to them later, but theyre eating up computer resources and creating a distraction, this extension is a quick and convenient way to temporarily get rid of them.

one way to think about this extension is as a bookmarks folder where you put temporary bookmarks doubling as to-do items, but you dont end up with an ever-growing list because once you click a stash, its removed from the list.

Another way to think about it is as a non-obtrusive session manager that embraces the fact that people use browser windows as a proxy for sessions.

like bookmarks, stashes are synced across devices via chromes (not very fast) built-in mechanism.

You can stash a single tab or a window.

You can also stash a subset of tabs in a window that you select by clicking tab handles while holding Shift, Cmd (Mac) or Ctrl (PC) key (standard chrome functionality, its also convenient to use this to drag tabs out to a new window or close them with Ctrl/Cmd+W).

The one significant downside that I can think of right now is that in mobile chrome, there are no extensions, so no stashes for you.

Source code (pls use issues to report bugs and to suggest features): https://github.com/ivan7237d/stash-tabs