2025.4.0
Restorable pinned tabs, tab sorting, searchable settings, and URL drag-and-drop
Oct 28, 2025New 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.