Cross-Device Sync, New Tab Page & Multi-Window Workspaces

Cross-Device Workspace Sync

A new feature: sign into the same Google account on a second Chrome install, enable sync, and your workspaces appear there. Sync runs through Chrome’s built-in sync (the same infrastructure that handles your bookmarks and passwords), not through a SuperchargeBrowser server. We never see the data.

Sync is opt-in. Nothing leaves the device until you complete the setup prompt in the side panel. That prompt is a preview, not a commit: it asks whether this is your first device, whether to keep waiting in case Chrome sync is still downloading from your account, or whether to skip syncing for now. You can also give the device a name so the status indicator can tell your Chrome installs apart. Disabling sync later wipes the synced data from Chrome sync and keeps your local workspaces intact.

Full-Replacement New Tab Page

Every new tab now opens on Nav’s new tab page instead of Chrome’s default. The page is built out of togglable rows:

• Workspace cards with favicon previews and tab/group counts, one click to activate
• Pinned tabs as a favicon row for one-click access to the sites you keep open
• Top sites pulled from your most-visited URLs, with a per-site hide control so you can keep certain results off your screen
• Fuzzy search with the same matching Nav uses in the Alt+K command palette, so just start typing (clicking anywhere on empty space focuses the bar too)
• Clock if you want a visible time
• Ambient particle animation in the background, on by default and togglable in settings

Each row is individually toggleable in Settings > Features, and the page respects your Chrome light / dark scheme. The NTP itself has a master switch: flip it off and Chrome’s default page comes back.

Multi-Window Mode

Use a different workspace in each Chrome window. The side panel reflects whichever window is currently active, so switching from a work window to a personal window also switches your tab list and groups. Window-to-workspace pairings survive browser restarts and extension reloads, and closing then reopening Chrome no longer spawns duplicate workspaces for windows that already match.

Clicking through workspaces fast is safe. Nav finishes the switch you started, then jumps to the most recent one you clicked and ignores anything in between, so you always land where you meant to.

Time-Travel Redesigned

Time-travel previously rewound one workspace at a time. This release captures every workspace in each snapshot, so the rewind slider now restores your whole setup. The preview is a checkbox list of all workspaces at that point in history, and restore is additive: ticking one workspace rolls it back without touching the others, even if they’ve changed since.

Snapshots still run every five minutes automatically. The ring buffer keeps the most recent fifty (roughly four hours of history).

URLs Menu

A new URLs menu in the side-panel action bar handles URL flows in both directions. Paste to open takes a list of URLs from your clipboard and opens each one as a tab in the active workspace, which is useful for bootstrapping a workspace from a doc full of links. Copy all takes every URL in the active workspace to your clipboard in one click, useful when you want to share a reading list or hand off your session to someone else.

Workspace Transfer

The Backup buttons have been rebranded as Transfer and lifted into their own menu at the bottom of the side panel. The full-backup export is still there, but you can also right-click a single workspace in the list for a per-workspace export. Import works on either file type and restores the workspaces on another machine or after a browser reset.

Context Menu Additions

Right-click a tab for new Copy URL and Lock / Unlock entries alongside the existing actions. The tab Lock feature already existed in v1.0; this adds a one-click way to reach it without opening the bulk-actions row.

Right-click a group header for a substantially fuller menu: Copy URLs (every tab in the group), Lock All, Mute All, Pin All, and Send Group to Workspace (preserves the group name, colour, and the pinned / muted / locked state of every tab). Close Group, New Tab in Group, and Ungroup remain as before.

Keyboard Additions

• Alt+B is now the default shortcut for Toggle Side Panel. The underlying command existed in v1.0 but shipped without a suggested key, so users had to bind one manually in Chrome’s keyboard-shortcut settings. Alt+G, Alt+Shift+G, and Alt+K remain on Smart Grouping, Ungroup All, and Quick Search.
• The time-travel dialog is fully keyboard-navigable: Arrow Up/Down, Home, End, Tab, Enter to restore, Escape to dismiss.
• Every confirmation dialog in the extension responds to Enter (confirm) and Escape (cancel), including the new close-other-tabs and sync-decision prompts.

Settings Additions

Settings dropdown picks up a new Workspaces section (confirm-before-delete, show or hide the export tools inline with each workspace, and the new sync controls when sync is on).

Individual toggles added across the existing sections: Smart Grouping and Ungroup All can be turned off if those shortcuts collide with another extension, a new Toggle Side Panel setting controls what clicking Nav’s toolbar button does, and the new tab page gets a per-row master switch for every NTP element.

Smaller Additions

• Timestamped auto-names: workspaces created automatically use Saved Tabs 14:32:10 / New 09:15:40 style names instead of the old Saved Session placeholder
• Double-click to rename from the new tab page (in-panel rename already existed), and the device name from the sync status row
• Copy all tabs button in the workspace action bar to lift every tab’s URL to clipboard at once
• Sync status at a glance: a coloured status dot with a live tooltip, a Sync now button, and an always-visible device row you can double-click to rename

Privacy

Sync data never leaves your device until you opt in, and never reaches our servers even when you do. It flows through Chrome’s built-in sync tied to your Google account, which we have no access to. Full details at Privacy Policy > Cross-Device Sync.