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Organize Those Chrome Tabs With TabJump

Posted on 31. Jan, 2010 by Daniel Cawrey in Reviews

Anyone ever get afflicted by tab-madness? This is a problem for those who work strictly in their browser and start off checking email, looking at Twitter updates and before you know it you have 30 tabs open. Here is a typical shot of the top of my browser and the number of tabs I have open:

Now, if you’re using Chrome, that means each tab is running as its own process and is hogging all the resources on your machine. All of a sudden when you go to watch a video or stream some music your PC just cannot handle it. Wonder why? Probably because you have tab-madness.

But this problem can be cured, and there is a cool Chrome extension called TabJump that can offer you help. TabJump sits in the navigation bar as as the green arrow shown here:

When you click on it, a drop down menu appears that organizes your tabs based on whether they have been frequently used, are closely related by topic or even if a tabs has been recently closed and you don’t want to have to go back into your history and try to find it. I don’t know how many times I have closed a tab because of tab-madness only to realize that I should have pinned it/not closed it.

So, pull yourself together and get your tabs in order with TabJump. It’s better than wasting your time going through every single tab looking for that little nugget of information, or having to go back through your history in the past day just to find that new site you just closed and forgot the name of.

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