FewTabs
A color-coded tab counter for chronic tab hoarders
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It's a small extension that adds a badge to the toolbar showing how many tabs you have open across all windows. You can change the thresholds and colors in the options, with up to 10 levels. Hovering the icon shows something like "42 tabs in 3 windows".
PH · launched Nov 11, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views
Niche: browser productivity extensions · 205 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▼ -6% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Chrome Extensions
- Productivity
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More like this: all 205 launches in browser productivity extensions →
Could you build this?
Yes A browser extension that counts open tabs and sets a color-coded badge uses the standard extension tabs API and is a very small project.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 144 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #57 of 145 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 353 days after the earliest competitor.
- TabMerger · ph · 2026-11-14 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Tab Organizer by PromptPilot · ph · 2026-11-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Tab Manager · ph · 2026-10-31 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Tab Vault · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- TabYell · ph · 2026-09-12 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- SlayTab - one tab instead of twenty · ph · 2026-09-15 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- More Shortcuts · ph · 2026-09-23 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- WhyTab – Intent-Based Tab Manager · ph · 2026-10-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.47
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