Tab Search — Command Palette for Chrome

Tab Search brings a Mac Spotlight-style command palette to Chrome. Press Alt+K and a search overlay opens above the active tab: a full-page dimmer with a 650 px search card, capped at 90% of the window width. Type to search open tabs, bookmarks, and browsing history all at once, then jump to any result with Enter.

How It Works

Alt+K interrupts whatever you’re doing and surfaces a search overlay above the current page. As you type, results appear in real time from three sources simultaneously:

1. Open tabs — matched by title and URL
2. Bookmarks — your full Chrome bookmark library
3. Browsing history — recent pages you’ve visited

The top results from all sources are gathered into a Best Matches section at the top of the list, ranked by fuzzy match score. Below that, results stay separated by section so you know exactly where each hit came from.

Select a result and press Enter (or click) to switch to that tab or open that page. If nothing in your local browser matches your query, Tab Search falls through to a web search in a new tab — no mode-switching required.

Press Escape to close the palette from anywhere — it registers at the document level, so the input doesn’t need to be focused first.

Settings

Bonus commands with SuperchargePerformance: If SuperchargePerformance is also installed, Tab Search surfaces three additional commands:

When to Use This

Deep tab sessions: You have 40 tabs open and can’t find the one you need. Alt+K → type a keyword from the page title → Enter.

Bookmark retrieval: Instead of navigating Chrome’s bookmark manager, type the name of what you bookmarked and jump directly to it.

Quick navigation without a mouse: Keyboard-first users can browse, search, and navigate Chrome entirely from the keyboard. Tab Search is the missing piece that makes this practical.

Replacing browser address bar habits: For sites you visit often, Alt+K is faster than clicking the address bar and typing a URL — especially for pages already open in a tab.

Privacy

Tab Search reads tab titles, URLs, bookmarks, and history from Chrome’s local APIs to build search results, and the extension itself sends no telemetry. When nothing local matches, the fall-through web search goes to your search engine rather than anywhere related to the extension.