Chrome’s bookmarks, in a popup.
Save the page you’re on. Find it later. Tabby reads and writes Chrome’s bookmark tree — no account, no server, nothing leaving your browser.
Alt+B on Windows and Linux. Option+B on Mac.
You saved it. Finding it is another story.
Chrome already stores your bookmarks. The built-in manager lives on its own page, the bar fills up, and last month’s “I’ll read this later” ends up three folders deep. Tabby doesn’t replace that tree — it puts the same bookmarks in a popup you can open from the toolbar or Alt+B.
The manager feels like homework
Star, close, forget. Opening chrome://bookmarks is enough friction that the pile just grows.
Folders nest until nothing has a home
Work, recipes, Tuesday’s tabs — nested until you can’t find the one you meant to keep.
The same URL, saved again
Scanning a long list is slower than saving it again. Tabby’s duplicate finder groups copies by URL when you want to clean up.
In the popup
Most visits are save this page or find that link. Everything else is one menu away.
- Save page
- One click adds the active tab to whichever folder you’re viewing. New bookmarks land at the top. If that URL is already there, the button briefly reads Already saved.
- Search
- Filter titles and URLs across your whole tree as you type. Click a bookmark to open it in a new tab.
- Folders when you need them
- The list uses the full width. Open Folders to pick Bookmarks Bar, Other, Mobile, or anything nested — then close the drawer. Drag a bookmark onto a folder to move it.
- Tidy when you want it
- Rename, delete with a second click to confirm, reorder inside a folder, and scan for duplicate URLs from the ⋯ menu. Handy when the pile gets messy; not why you opened the popup.
No account, no backend
Tabby does not collect, sell, or transmit personal data. It uses four Chrome permissions, each tied to a feature in the popup.
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| bookmarks | Browse folders, save pages, rename, move, delete, and reorder — the core of the extension. |
| storage | Remember which folder you last had open (synced through Chrome if you use Sync). |
| favicon | Show site icons from Chrome’s local cache, not from a remote service. |
| activeTab | Read the current tab’s URL and title only when you click Save page — not in the background. |