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What is Flocci Tabs?
Flocci Tabs is a free Chrome extension that organises your browser tabs into native, colour-coded Chrome tab groups automatically. Drag a tab into a new window and a titled, coloured group appears. Sign in with Google and AI names your groups and sorts your open tabs into topics.
Is Flocci Tabs free?
Yes. Installing it is free, and automatic colour-grouping is unlimited and works without any account at all. AI grouping and AI naming use your Flocci account: the free plan includes 300 AI credits a month, after which AI generation is metered at 30 credits per 1,000 tokens from the same wallet that every other Flocci app shares.
Do I need an OpenAI or Gemini API key?
No. Flocci Tabs used to ask for your own key and no longer does. AI runs through Flocci’s own service behind a single Google sign-in, so there is no key to generate, paste, rotate or leak.
Does Flocci Tabs work with Chrome’s built-in tab groups?
It uses them. Every group Flocci Tabs creates is a real Chrome tab group with one of Chrome’s eight native colours. Nothing is a custom overlay, so collapsing, dragging and right-clicking all behave exactly as you expect.
Can I save a tab group and open it again later?
Yes, with cloud snapshots. A snapshot stores the window’s group names, colours, tab order and URLs against your Flocci account, and restore rebuilds it — after a crash, after a restart, or on a completely different computer. Chrome has no native equivalent.
Which browsers does Flocci Tabs support?
Any Chromium browser that supports Manifest V3 and the tabGroups API: Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera and Vivaldi. It is distributed through the Chrome Web Store.
What data does Flocci Tabs send anywhere?
Only tab titles and domains, only when you trigger an AI action, and only to api.tabs.flocci.in. Page contents, form data and browsing history are never transmitted. Automatic colour-grouping runs entirely on your device and sends nothing at all.
How many tabs can AI grouping handle at once?
Up to 50 ungrouped tabs per request. Anything beyond that is rejected rather than silently truncated, and AI naming reads up to 10 tabs from a group when deciding what to call it.
How is Flocci Tabs different from OneTab or Toby?
OneTab closes your tabs into a flat list and Toby is a manual board of saved collections. Flocci Tabs leaves your tabs open and makes them legible in place — automatic colour-coded native tab groups with AI names — and adds snapshots when you do want to park a layout.
Does Flocci Tabs reduce Chrome’s memory usage?
Not directly, and we will not claim a percentage. Chrome’s own Memory Saver is the right tool for RAM. What grouping gives you is the ability to see which whole cluster is finished and close twenty tabs in one action instead of twenty.
Do I need a separate account for Flocci Tabs?
No. One Flocci account signs you into every Flocci product, and the same credit wallet covers AI across all of them. If you already use another Flocci app, Flocci Tabs is one Google click away from working.
Who makes Flocci Tabs?
Flocci Technologies, a bootstrapped AI-native software company founded by Md Afsar Hussain in Ranchi, Jharkhand, India. Flocci Tabs is one of 30+ interconnected products on the same identity, credit and AI platform.
Does Flocci Tabs work on Microsoft Edge, Brave or Arc?
Yes. Any Chromium browser with Manifest V3 and the tabGroups API runs it — Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc, Opera and Vivaldi. It is distributed through the Chrome Web Store, which all of those can install from.
Can I export my settings?
Yes. The options page exports rules, templates and preferences as a JSON file, and imports them back — useful for a new machine or for sharing a team-wide rule set.
What Chrome permissions does it request, and why?
tabs and tabGroups to read and create groups; windows to detect a drag-out; storage for local settings; identity for Google sign-in; alarms and notifications for scheduled background work. Host access is limited to api.tabs.flocci.in.
Is Flocci Tabs open source?
No, it is not currently open source. The extension is distributed through the Chrome Web Store, which publishes the permission set, and it talks to exactly one declared host.
Where is Flocci Tabs built?
In Ranchi, Jharkhand, India, by Flocci Technologies — a bootstrapped company founded by Md Afsar Hussain, previously a senior engineer at SAP Labs India.

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