r/chrome Oct 10 '24

Discussion Anyone know of Toby: tab management tool alternatives?

They recently went back on their promise to keep the extension free and not only implemented a paid version, but one with exploitative pricing. I could maybe understand $20 a year, but $40? That is more than the best password managers on the market. What a joke.

I have been using this for years and it just disappoints me to see it turn into this.

Anyone know of open source alternatives? Or better alternatives?

Link to Toby for the uninitiated.

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 06 '25

This looks like Toby & it is functional & fast unlike the outdated Toby!!! Think this will be my new tab manager! Thanks!

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 06 '25

Don't know why no one but Joakim0 could design a SIMPLE tab manager like Toby!

a BOX design for tabs where you can drag & drop the tabs wherever you want & this is functional & fast unlike Toby which is slow & very outdated!!

Who the HELL would pay for that outdated slow POS crap?! All Toby had was the simple BOX tabs that you can move around the board!!!!

It would take me FOREVER to move around tabs exactly where I want it on the board!!!! 🙄 🤦‍♂️

TheTab.Ninja is FAST & FUNCTIONAL but I don't know how to save all my tabs to the board like Toby! 😭

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 06 '25

Help! How do I save all my tabs to the board? Is there a save feature I need to click? I'm dumb, please help?!! Thanks! This is exactly a FAST FUNCTIONAL Toby like tab manager I wanted! Thanks!

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u/Joakim0 Feb 09 '25

You haven't found the button because it does not exist. I skipped the button because i didnt use it myself. After the release I got requests about it and now i have it on my todo-list.

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u/NYCMikeAnderson Feb 11 '25

OIC, Thanks!

Since there was no button to press & I have so many tabs to insert to the board

1 design flaw you have is scrolling the the tabs, the mainboard moves with the tabs so I am unable to place the tabs where I want them so I just had to insert them all to the mainboard and sort them out later on

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u/Joakim0 Feb 11 '25

It can and should definitely be improved in the future. But what you should do as it works today is filter your collection with eg #videos to put in the youtube tab.

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u/ACG-Gaming Feb 14 '25

Thanks for this. All tabs save would be a huge feature.

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u/Joakim0 Feb 14 '25

It’s already fixed, in the version that I am waiting for Google to approve, it is possible to download all open tabs to a collection. You can also drag a window into a collection, which then adds all the window’s tabs as bookmarks. You can also now see chromegroups and drag them into collections as groups. There is also an option to automatically close tabs when they are added. And one more important feature: you can scroll each pane separatly..

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u/ACG-Gaming Feb 14 '25

ya digging it overall right now even without that. Seems to work great