A vertical tab manager that lives in the page, not a separate window. Search, group, and switch tabs without leaving what you’re reading. It follows you from tab to tab.
Learn these first. The rest you can pick up whenever you need it.
Bring your tabs and workspaces up, or tuck them away.
Type to jump to any tab, bookmark, history entry, or workspace.
Group every open tab by site in one keystroke.
Every shortcut Navigation adds to Chrome. Hover a row to see what it does.
Set in Chrome. Not firing? Chrome skips a key when another extension already owns it — assign your own at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.
Always on, on every normal page — nothing to set up. Prefer different keys? Change them in the extension’s options.
While hint badges are showing, hold Shift+Alt and type a letter to preview that link, or Shift+Ctrl to open it in a background tab.
The in-page sidebar is the default — slim, dockable, and it follows you from tab to tab. Prefer Chrome’s own panel? One toggle switches it, and one switches back.
Lives inside the page you’re reading.
The trade-off
On chrome:// pages, the Web Store, and PDFs it can’t run in the page, so it opens on one dedicated tab — the kind of page you’re on right now.
The same sidebar, docked in Chrome’s side panel instead of the page.
The trade-off It can’t collapse to icons or auto-hide, it shows the panel’s built-in border, and it won’t go narrower than Chrome’s minimum width.
Make it sit right
Dock left or right, keep it full, collapsed to icons, or hidden, drag the width, and turn on auto-hide — all in the in-page sidebar.
Switch any time in the extension’s options: Options Tabs & sidebar Sidebar style
One extension instead of a stack of them. Turn on what you need — what you skip stays off and costs nothing.
Your tabs, workspaces, and new tab, set up once.
Scrollable side list, drag to reorder.
Save named tab sets, switch in one click.
Workspaces, top sites, search, clock — every row togglable.
Workspaces follow your browser account, not our servers.
Reach any tab, link, or text without the mouse.
Jump anywhere by typing.
Letter badges on links — type to click.
Start typing to highlight matching text.
Peek a link in place, no new tab.
Cut clutter and label what matters.
Group all tabs by site instantly.
Merges duplicate tabs automatically.
Annotate any tab, find it via the command bar.
Export or import your setup on any device.
Rewind, lock, and recover when things go sideways.
Auto every 5 min — rewind any subset.
Stops a tab closing by accident.
Get your tabs back after a crash.
Turn Navigation off on one site.
Chrome runs every extension’s on-page features through a content script — a small piece of code the browser injects into the page. For your safety, Chrome refuses to inject content scripts into a handful of protected surfaces: its own chrome:// settings and internal pages, the Chrome Web Store, and the built-in PDF viewer. Nothing any extension does can change that — it is a browser rule, the same for all of them.
An in-page sidebar needs to run on the page to show up. On a protected page it has nowhere to run. Rather than fail quietly, SuperchargeNavigation opens one ordinary tab where it can run and brings the sidebar there. Your tabs, workspaces, and search are all still one keystroke away — they just live on this tab while you’re on a protected page.
The same limit is why a tab manager that lives in the page is rare. Most settle for the browser’s narrow side panel. This one runs in the page so it can be slimmer and follow you around — and accepts the one trade-off: on Chrome’s own pages, it borrows a tab. Prefer it everywhere with no borrowed tab? You can switch to Chrome’s native side panel instead — the two modes are compared just below.