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Take control of your browser with SEA TabFinder — the ultimate virtual folder manager for Chrome Tab Groups.

Are you tired of your browser's top bar becoming an unreadable, cluttered mess of Tab Groups? While Chrome's native Tab Groups are great, they don't allow you to organize them into folders. That's where SEA TabFinder comes in.

SEA TabFinder lives conveniently in your Chrome Side Panel, allowing you to create a virtual, nested folder structure for your Tab Groups. Think of it like a file explorer for your browsing sessions! Easily drag and drop your active Tab Groups into custom folders, keep your workspace clean, and focus only on what you need right now.

🌟 Key Features

📁 Virtual Nested Folders: Create custom folders and sub-folders to organize your Tab Groups by project, client, research topic, or whatever fits your workflow.

🖱️ Intuitive Drag & Drop: Simply drag your active Tab Groups from the "Unsorted" list and drop them into your custom folders to organize them instantly.

📝 Smart Snippet Capture: Highlight text on any webpage to save it as a rich-text snippet. It automatically generates deep links (including line-specific links for GitHub) so clicking the source takes you back to the exact spot on the page!

🧠 Structured Workspaces & Templates: Kickstart your projects with premade templates (like Research Topics or Lesson Plans) or save your own custom folder structures as reusable templates in the gallery.

⚡ Batch Tab Operations: Instantly add all open tabs to your current folder or save them all as a named snapshot to declutter your browser in seconds.

📋 Copy URLs for NotebookLM: Quickly copy all URLs from a folder directly to your clipboard in a clean, new-line separated list—perfect for dropping into AI tools like NotebookLM.

🔍 Deep Search: Find what you need instantly by searching across item titles, snippet contents, and your personal custom notes.

🙈 Privacy Mode: Customize Automatic folder name obfuscation for sensitive directories in the favorites bar, making screen sharing stress-free.

👯 Duplicate Detection: Easily identify and highlight duplicate URLs and snippets to keep your workspace lean and clean.

💾 Local Backup & Export: Never lose your workspace. Export your entire folder structure, specific folders, or snapshots as file backups. Perfect for migrating to a new computer.

🔒 Privacy First: Your data belongs to you. SEA TabFinder saves your folder structures locally on your device. No accounts, no cloud syncing, and no tracking.

🚀 How it Works
Open the SEA TabFinder side panel.
Click "+ Folder" to create a new category (e.g., "Work Projects", "Travel Planning").
Right-click on a page to send links/snippets directly to your active folder.
Click on any saved group in your folders to instantly focus its tabs!

Say goodbye to tab overload and hello to a beautifully organized browser. Install SEA TabFinder today and build the workspace you deserve!

🚀 Key V4 Features & Workspace Enhancements:
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🎨 Visuals & Appearance
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Dual Theme Support: Native support for both Dark Mode and Light Mode, offering a beautifully styled glassmorphic interface that adapts instantly to user preference.

Aesthetics Refinements: Standardized element alignment, improved dotted-line drop zone boxes, and resolved layout spill-overs.

Favicon Optimization on Template Buttons: Excluded favicon icons from template button layouts. This maximizes horizontal space for button titles to prevent truncation, and ensures clean text legibility/contrast across both themes (as testing translucent favicons in background images yielded inconsistent contrast results).

🧹 Tab Management & Pruning
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Tab Pruning ("Close Already Saved Open Tabs"): Prune open browser tabs that are already saved under a folder structure.

Folder Context Action: Right-click a folder item or folder workspace background to close all matching open browser tabs.

Smart Group Retention: If a matching Tab Group (snapshot) contains new unsaved tabs, the group remains open with those new tabs inside, pruning only the saved ones.

Refocus Tab Overload Redirection: Navigation automatically checks if the target URL is already open in your browser. If so, it focuses that existing tab and brings its window to the front, instead of creating duplicate tabs.

Focus Toast Notifications: Shows a glassmorphic history toast ("Focused existing tab") to confirm navigation focused an existing session.

⚙️ Settings & Customization
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Advanced Normalization Engine: Fully user-configurable URL Match Normalization fields in Advanced Settings:

Strip All Query Params From Domains: Disables parameters for matching specific hosts.

Strip Parameters Globally: Ignores tracking or OAuth redirect query keys.

Strip Path Patterns (Regex): Strips dynamic pathname structures (e.g. Google Docs /u/0/ accounts indexing).

Click-Navigation Controls: Toggles under settings to require only a single-click to open folders, templates, snapshots, templates buttons, expand snippets, or visit links (defaults to double-click).

Hide Template Actions: Toggle to hide the "+ Add Row" template buttons.

📂 Favorites Bar & Navigation
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Drag to Favorites: Directly drag and drop any folder onto the Favorites bar.

Recents Directory: Dynamic folder automatically compiled in the Favorites bar showing your most recently visited workspace nodes.

🛡️ Privacy & Sensitive Obfuscation
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Mark Folder as Sensitive: Checkbox in Get Info modal to obfuscate folder contents when displayed in the Favorites bar.

Peek at Sensitive: Right-click folder action temporarily reveals original names of sensitive folders. Obfuscation automatically reapplies as soon as focus returns to the main panel.

📝 Manual Item Entry & Capturing

Manual Snippet Adding: Context menu option to add snippets manually when webpage overlays prevent native Chrome right-click capture.

Manual URL Adding: Add custom link records manually for URLs not accessible in your current profile/network environment.

Markdown Formatting Support: Capturing and copying snippets preserves original HTML/Markdown structure and indentations.

🗂️ Gallery & Template Lifecycles
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Save as Standardized Template: Convert any workspace folder to a clean, standardized template. Standardizing automatically strips saved urls and snippets, replacing them with empty italicized placeholders ("Right click and add current tab or all tabs!"), while preserving all structure, section titles, row orders, and button layouts.

Persistent Gallery Management: Full lifecycle controls for premade templates:

Pencil Edit Controls: Customize default premade titles/icons. Edits are saved to editedPremadeTemplates to survive extension updates.

Premade Deletion: Delete built-in templates to the Recycle Bin. Deletions are saved to deletedPremadeTemplates to prevent updates from recreating them.

Two New Templates: Added pre-built Research and Tasks workspaces to the Gallery.

Template Section Collapsing: Minimize or collapse individual template sections to manage tab overload.

Drag & Drop Sorting Overrides: Complete freedom to drag and reorder sections, subsections, and template buttons. Saves manual drag placements in a persistent override list.

🐛 Bug Fixes
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Snippet Routing in Templates: Fixed background service worker to route dropped snippets/URLs into the first links grid (allowRows === false) instead of pushing them as top-row buttons.

Performance Latency: Optimized load times and paint states, resolving delays when opening large folders or templates.

Visual Highlights Sync: Fixed sorting views and duplicate indicators inside templates so they clean up properly when disabling highlight settings.

Template Columns Truncation: Fixed template layout grid columns to prevent long subsection names from truncating.

Import Gallery Action: Fixed JSON import system in the Gallery to ingest custom templates as templates instead of adding them as regular folders.

Version 4.1.0 Enhancements and Bug Fixes
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New Features and Enhancements

Dynamic Version-Linked Visual Indicators: Visual "NEW" badges and context menu indicator dots are linked directly to the manifest version (4.1.0 / 4.x). They will automatically hide when upgrading to a newer version (e.g. V5) to eliminate manual code cleanup.

Superscript "NEW" badges are displayed next to Recents and Settings favorites.

Solid circular blue dots are displayed next to new features in context menus: Add Manual Snippet/URL, Copying options, Peek at Sensitive, Close Saved Tabs, Save as Template, Add/Delete Link Container, and Add Row to Section.

Hollow circular blue dots are displayed next to enhanced features like Get Info inside right-click menus to signify V4 updates.

Search "Sections" Filter Pill: Added a dedicated "Sections" filter pill in the search panel. Toggling it allows users to filter template sections and rows independently of standard folders. Defaults to inactive (grey) to prevent search results clutter.

New "Manual" Sort Indicator: Appended the blue dot next to the Manual (Custom Order) sort dropdown option.

Focused Tab Toast Action Link: Enhanced the Refocus Tab redirection toast message ("Focused existing tab") to include a clickable settings hyperlink ("change in settings"), which directly opens the panel's Settings modal.

Aesthetics and Contrast Adjustments:

Superscript Badges in Light Mode: Styled the superscript "NEW" badges in light mode with a darker royal blue text color to prevent text wash-out.

Search Badges in Light Mode: Color-inverted active search badges to use white text on a blue background, ensuring high contrast and legibility.

Drag and Drop Highlights: Added base CSS rules for drag-over (semi-transparent blue background) and drag-over-row (subtle white background), enabling drag-and-drop highlight indicators under dark mode.

Setting Defaults and Bug Fixes:
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Corrected Toggle Default States:

Hide "+ Add Row" Button: Defaults to false (visible) so new users can see it immediately.

Single-click Template Buttons: Defaults to true (single-click enabled) to match standard interactive expectations.

Focus Existing Tab: Defaults to false (disabled) to avoid unexpected redirection behavior for new installations.

Resolved Favorite Drag-and-Drop Artifacts: Fixed an issue where dragging an item from the favorites bar into a grid folder placed a broken, unclickable favorite pointer object (rendering as offset squares). The handler now correctly resolves favorite items back to their actual folder object before assigning them to the target destination.

Added Infinite Scrolling to Favorites bar, add as many favorites as you want to the favorites bar!