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Your tabs, on theside of every page.

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.

Slimmer than Chrome’s native panel · Docks left or right · Collapses to a strip of icons · Free. No account.

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Your sidebar’shome tab.

Chrome blocks extensions on its own pages, the Web Store, and PDFs, so the sidebar opened here instead. Your tabs, workspaces, and search are still one keystroke away.

Keyboard shortcuts Two ways to run it What’s new
  • Toggle Alt+B
  • Command bar Alt+K
  • Move the sidebar OptionsTabs & sidebarSidebar side

Two ways to run the sidebar

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. On Chrome’s own pages, the Web Store, and PDFs the in-page sidebar can’t run, so it opens on this tab instead; the native panel has no such limit.

Default

In-page sidebar

Lives inside the page you’re reading.

  • Slimmer than Chrome’s own panel
  • Docks on the left or the right
  • Collapses to a strip of icons, or tucks away
  • Follows you from tab to tab

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.

Works everywhere

Native side panel

The same sidebar, docked in Chrome’s side panel instead of the page.

  • Opens on Chrome’s own pages too — never borrows a tab
  • The same tabs, workspaces, and search
  • One toggle to switch, one to switch back

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. Dock left / rightFull · Collapse · HideDrag to resize
  • Switch any time in the extension’s options: OptionsTabs & sidebarSidebar style

SuperchargeNavigation keyboard shortcuts

Every key Navigation adds. Hover or focus a card to watch it work.

Set in Chrome. Not firing? Chrome skips a key when another extension already owns it — assign your own at chrome://extensions/shortcuts.

  • Alt+B

    Show or hide the sidebar.

  • Alt+K

    Open the command bar — jump to any tab by typing.

  • Alt+G

    Group your tabs by site, instantly.

  • Alt+Shift+G

    Ungroup everything.

  • Alt+Shift+P

    Pause Nav on the current site.

  • Esc

    Close the peek preview.

Gestures on any page

Three moves that work on every normal web page, no setup.

Always on, on every normal page — nothing to set up. Prefer different keys? Change them in the extension’s options.

  • Hold Shift Hold to drop a letter badge on every link and button. Type one to click it.
  • type Just start typing (no Shift) to highlight matching text on the page.
  • Alt +Click Preview a link in place, without opening a tab.
  • Alt +wheel Hold Alt and scroll to move to the next or previous tab.
Advanced: chords while badges are up

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.

Sidebar settings

The three settings that decide where the sidebar sits and how it rests. The quick ones are also in the sidebar menu.

  • Sidebar style In-pageNative panel Pick the in-page sidebar or Chrome’s own side panel.
  • Sidebar side RightLeft Pick which edge the in-page sidebar docks to.
  • Sidebar resting state FullCollapseHide Full stays open, Collapse shrinks to icons, Hide tucks it away until your mouse reaches the edge.

OptionsTabs & sidebar  Quick switch without opening Options: ⋯ MoreSidebarSide

Move your workspaces

Save one workspace or all of them to a file, then import the file on another computer.

  • Download this workspace: one workspace, one .json file.
  • Export all workspaces: a full backup of every workspace.
  • Import from file: pick a .json file to bring its workspaces in.

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Questions

Why can’t Chrome extensions run on chrome:// pages, the Web Store, or PDFs?
Chrome blocks extension content scripts from running on its own internal pages (chrome://), the Chrome Web Store, and the built-in PDF viewer. It’s a browser-wide security rule, identical for every extension — no extension can opt out of it. An in-page tool simply has nowhere to run on those pages.
What is an in-page sidebar for Chrome?
A tab manager that renders directly inside the web page you’re viewing, rather than in the browser’s separate side panel. SuperchargeNavigation’s in-page sidebar can be narrower than Chrome’s native panel, can dock left or right, and stays open as you move between tabs.
How do I open the sidebar on any page?
Press Alt+B, or click the SuperchargeNavigation toolbar icon. On a normal web page the sidebar appears in the page. On a Chrome page, the Web Store, or a PDF, it opens on a dedicated tab where it can run.
A keyboard shortcut isn’t working. How do I fix it?
Chrome only assigns an extension’s shortcut if the keys are free. If Alt+B, Alt+K, Alt+G, or Alt+Shift+G does nothing, another extension probably claimed that combination. Open chrome://extensions/shortcuts, find SuperchargeNavigation, and set or change the keys there. The in-page gestures — hold Shift for link badges, type to highlight text, Alt+click to peek a link, Alt+Shift+P to pause on a site — always work and can be tuned in the extension’s options.
Can the sidebar be on the left instead of the right?
Yes. It defaults to the right, matching Chrome’s side panel. To move the in-page sidebar, open the extension’s options and set Tabs & sidebar → Sidebar side to Left. (If you use Chrome’s native side panel instead, its side is set in Chrome itself — right-click the panel and choose “Show on left”.)
Can I use Chrome’s native side panel instead?
Yes — open the extension’s options and set Tabs & sidebar → Sidebar style to Native panel. It opens on Chrome’s own pages too, so it never borrows a tab. The trade-off: it can’t collapse to icons or auto-hide, it shows the browser’s panel borders, and it won’t go below Chrome’s minimum width. The in-page sidebar is slimmer and collapsible; the native panel is everywhere. Switch back any time from the same setting.
Does the sidebar see my browsing?
No. SuperchargeNavigation runs on your device — it has no servers of its own and collects no telemetry. The one exception is cross-device sync: if you turn it on, your workspaces ride your browser’s own sync (Google or Microsoft), never our servers.

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