Tab Modifier

Take control of your tabs.

Features

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

Installation

Install from the Chrome Web Store.

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

Help

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"

And now, build your own... 💪

Known issues

Local icon path doesn't work

Related issue: #5

Due to browser security restrictions, this path won't work: file://<path>/icon.png. Your icon will not be shown by Chrome.

Alternatively, you can upload your icon somewhere like imgur.com and paste the direct link in your rule.

Chrome system pages `chrome://`

Related issues: #11, #14

Pages that start with chrome:// URL are protected. No content script can be injected then Tab Modifier will not work on these pages.

Dynamic favicon

Related issue: #16

The extension does not detect website with dynamic favicon.

For example, you set a custom favicon on a website, on the page reload, the default favicon will be replaced by yours. In case the website wants to replace the favicon by a new one in Javascript, like prepending with "(1)", e.g. a notification, Tab Modifier will not detect this change.

Changelog

See releases section.

Development

In case you want to contribute or just want to play with the code, follow the guide.

Setup

Download and install NodeJS to get npm.

Install gulp globally:

sudo npm install -g gulp

Clone the project and install dependencies with npm install.

Type gulp to watch your changes inside src/ folder or type gulp build after each change.

Load local extension in Chrome

Go to chrome://extensions/ and enable the "Developer mode".

Click on "Load unpacked extension..." and select the project dist/ folder.

License

See license file.

leebivip/chrome-tab-modifier