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A Chrome tab manager for developers who keep 40 tabs open on purpose

A pull request, four Stack Overflow answers, three doc pages, a staging URL and localhost. None of it is noise — it is all context for the same ticket. The problem is not the number of tabs, it is that they all look identical.

Which Chrome tab manager is best for developers?

Direct answer

A pull request, four Stack Overflow answers, three doc pages, a staging URL and localhost. None of it is noise — it is all context for the same ticket. The problem is not the number of tabs, it is that they all look identical. Flocci Tabs fits this workflow because it groups and colours the tabs already open, automatically, using Chrome's native tab groups — no filing step, no saved-item cap, no account needed for the automatic part.

The actual problem

Context lives across two monitors and four windows, and Chrome renders all of it as identical grey rectangles.

Colours this tab set gets

  • github.com → purple #9334e6
  • stackoverflow.com → yellow #f29900
  • localhost:3000 → next free colour in rotation
  • discord.com → purple #9334e6
  • notion.so → grey #5f6368

The workflow, step by step

  1. Drag the pull request out to the second monitor — it becomes a purple group instantly, because github.com is hard-coded purple.
  2. Open the docs you need next to it; adjacent grouping pulls them into the same group.
  3. When the group crosses three tabs, AI naming replaces “GitHub” with something like “Auth refactor · PR review”.
  4. Ctrl + Shift + M at the end of the day merges every window into one, and a snapshot parks the whole ticket for tomorrow.

Shortcuts that matter here

ActionmacOSWindows / Linux
Ungroup all tab groups⌘ + Shift + UCtrl + Shift + U
Smart-group the current tab⌘ + Shift + GCtrl + Shift + G
Merge all groups into one window⌘ + Shift + MCtrl + Shift + M

Developers — questions

Straight answers, no marketing detours.
Which Chrome tab manager is best for developers?
A pull request, four Stack Overflow answers, three doc pages, a staging URL and localhost. None of it is noise — it is all context for the same ticket. The problem is not the number of tabs, it is that they all look identical. Flocci Tabs fits this workflow because it groups and colours the tabs already open, automatically, using Chrome's native tab groups — no filing step, no saved-item cap, no account needed for the automatic part.
What colours would my tabs get?
From this example set: github.com → purple, stackoverflow.com → yellow, localhost:3000 → free rotation, discord.com → purple, notion.so → grey. Those come from the extension's fourteen built-in domain hints; anything unmatched takes the next unused colour in rotation.
Do I need to sign in?
Not for automatic colour-grouping, adjacent grouping, bulk actions or the keyboard shortcuts — those are local and free forever. Signing in with Google unlocks AI grouping, AI naming and cloud snapshots, with 300 AI credits a month included free.

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