Ever feel like your browser is running slower than dial-up days? If you're anything like me, you may find yourself constantly opening new tabs while working on projects or researching. Once I hit about 10 tabs, I start to notice a difference in performance. What to do? I use OneTab, a Chrome extension, to organize open tabs in a single tab. Once installed, the OneTab icon (blue filter) will appear in your browser toolbar.Whenever you get to a point where you are switching tasks or just have too many tabs open, click the icon and all of your unpinned tabs will automatically transfer to OneTab where they will be neatly listed and easily restored when you want to return to them.
Once in OneTab, you have the option to restore all your tabs, delete all your tabs, share your list with others, and restore/delete individual tabs. The ability to share a list as a web page can be helpful when you want to share research with a class or collaborative group.
You can even drag and drop tabs in you OneTab list to reorder them. Hold down the Ctrl key while restoring tabs and they will also stay in your OneTab list.
Even more options are found in the More drop-down menu. Here you can name a tab group, which is helpful when tabs are grouped by project or task. Lock a tab group to prevent yourself from accidentally deleting tabs, or Star a tab group to move it to the top of your OneTab list.
Additionally, if you want to specify which tabs are sent to your OneTab, right-click the browser icon to receive the following choices.
To customize the default OneTab actions, select the Options menu by right-clicking on the browser icon or using the menu located on the right side of your OneTab page.Here you can determine how OneTab behaves in several situations based on your preferences.
OneTab is easily one of my favorite and most frequently used extensions.
Click here to watch my OneTab video tutorial.
Click here to get the OneTab extension for Chrome.
