2025.4.0

Restorable pinned tabs, tab sorting, searchable settings, and URL drag-and-drop

Oct 28, 2025

New features

  • Restorable pinned tabs - set a base URL for each tab (based on order of pinned tabs) in settings, then restore the pinned tab to the URL by right-clicking and selecting the “Restore pinned tab URL”.
  • Run grouping rules on all windows - enabled by default; this allows grouping rules to run on all windows with Tab Shelf open.
  • Auto-sleep newly-opened background tabs with various timeout options - this affects tabs which were opened but never visited/activated. You can also add sites to an allow or block list to determine whether to only sleep tabs if they’re from a certain set of sites, or to never sleep tabs for certain sites.
  • Searchable settings - works in all languages supported by Tab Shelf.
  • Drag-and-drop plain text with a URL or multiple URLs on to Tab Shelf to open them as new tabs.
  • Tab sorting - sort tabs by name (alphabetical order) or when they were last accessed.

Improvements

  • Overhauled the user settings engine - settings are stored and managed more efficiently.
  • Restored the “Roomy” appearance (the floating tab groups style) as an option.
  • Redesigned grouping rule creation and editing modes (use the same, simplified grouping rule editor).
  • Allow saved session, window, and tab group bookmarks to be renamed within the Saves modal menu.
  • Make the “Save snapshot” button from the Action Bar (as an optional button) to the top bar (as a fixture). In the Settings, this button can be changed to either take save the current state of the window, save the entire session, or hidden altogether.

Bug fixes

  • Fixed an issue where settings, grouping rules, custom tab group colors, and session restore metadata were never synced via the browser account (despite being enabled).
  • Fixed an issue where dragging and dropping a tab into another instance of Tab Shelf doesn’t trigger the tab list to refresh in the inactive window.
  • Fixed an issue where the detected duplicate tabs list is not getting updated after closing duplicate tabs.