Auto Collapse for Tab Groups

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Status
  • Extension status: Featured
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Description from extension meta

Collapse your unfocused groups.

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Auto Collapse for Tab Groups
Description from store

Auto Collapse makes the tab bar less distracting by collapsing all unfocused Tab Groups (the feature introduced in Chrome 89).

When you click on an ungrouped tab or a tab within one group, all other tab groups get collapsed.

Changelog:
*v1.1: Fixed timing bug during tab group focus.

Latest reviews

Curtis Jones 2025-07-01

Exactly what I was searching for, great work

Raymund Galapate 2025-05-26

still need to click on the site tab so that other unfocused tab will toggle

Denny Lenselink 2025-05-10

This extension, which I love, also collapses groups on other windows when selecting a tab within a group of another windows. Would be nice to automatically select the last active tab in a group when selecting a group.

Kevin Hingston 2025-01-26

Doesn't work on saved groups, which are the entire reason I was looking for a solution. For my use case, this is one star, and I've not seen it work as saved groups are all I use.

Gustavo Godoy 2024-11-06

Works Flawlessly! Btw, i found this extension looking for another. I like this extension but i was thinking also its a great idea if you can open a tab from a group and at the same time hide the others not used from the group you are in. If you know what i mean. Could you add that option? Or if not instead make another extension with this funtionality?

Sean Goy 2024-07-10

Works perfectly thank you so much!

Sharath Chandra 2024-05-19

Just what i needed, thanks for creating this extension

Gary Kavanagh 2024-05-10

I love the idea of this for focusing tabs while context switching, but since saved groups came out I use them heavily, and this extension unfortunately doesn't support collapsing a saved group, and I'm not willing to trade off benefits of saved groups to get auto collapsing. If updated to support working on save groups would be a 5 star for me, I like a simple just collapse groups you're not actively using function.

Sherwood Zoho Admin 2024-05-03

Doesn't work with saved groups and would be nice to have keyboard shortcuts

Mohit Rahaman 2024-04-22

Please add keyboard shortcuts to activate extension or toggle feature on-off

Sven Eckert 2024-02-29

Would be nice if there was a noption to disable it (temporarily, for the current session). Otherwise, does exactly what it's supposed to 👍

Aurelien Mathias (Mathan) 2024-02-01

sadly this doesn't work if the group is saved

Jake Downs 2024-01-03

LOVE IT, pairs great with "Merge Windows" and "Group Tabs by Domain" https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/group-tabs-by-domain/icmbnkmjhdapliaologdghjfpcmcimln

Ryan Antilla-Porter 2023-06-15

Working exactly as I wanted it to so far. Thanks!

Ryan Antilla-Porter 2023-06-15

Working exactly as I wanted it to so far. Thanks!

Tripp (特伦) 2023-05-22

This is exactly what I need.

Tripp (特伦) 2023-05-22

This is exactly what I need.

Andrii Lutogin 2023-04-15

glitch with cromecast

Andrii Lutogin 2023-04-15

glitch with cromecast

Marilyn Gerrard 2022-11-27

Great concept and worked well for a few hours but then completely stopped working. Please fix the extension

Marilyn Gerrard 2022-11-27

Great concept and worked well for a few hours but then completely stopped working. Please fix the extension

Matias Morant 2022-10-08

would be good if groups also collapsed when you click on a group (not only on a tab inside)

Matias Morant 2022-10-08

would be good if groups also collapsed when you click on a group (not only on a tab inside)

Robert De Niro 2022-08-23

Seems to work

Robert De Niro 2022-08-23

Seems to work

Dmitriy DHS 2022-07-18

Awesome extension, works like a charm! It'd be nice if there was a way to disable it temporarily - like a click on the extension icon in the bar to toggle auto-collapsing (sometimes you just have to jump between the groups but disabling/enabling the extension itself is not easy at all). Thanks for the work!

Dmitriy DHS 2022-07-18

Awesome extension, works like a charm! It'd be nice if there was a way to disable it temporarily - like a click on the extension icon in the bar to toggle auto-collapsing (sometimes you just have to jump between the groups but disabling/enabling the extension itself is not easy at all). Thanks for the work!

Bruno De Angelis 2022-07-18

I'm not sure where to file bugs, so I'll do it here. Everything works perfectly except when switching tabs using the Tab Search (Cmd+Shift+A), if the tab I'm going to is from another tab group, the previous tab group doesn't collapse (basically the extension doesn't work in that scenario.) It'd be amazing if that could be fixed. Thank you!!

Bruno De Angelis 2022-07-18

I'm not sure where to file bugs, so I'll do it here. Everything works perfectly except when switching tabs using the Tab Search (Cmd+Shift+A), if the tab I'm going to is from another tab group, the previous tab group doesn't collapse (basically the extension doesn't work in that scenario.) It'd be amazing if that could be fixed. Thank you!!

Telmo Amaral 2022-06-05

It works and it's really useful. It should be an option built into Chrome. Minor issue: often a small artifact shows up to the right of the last auto-collapsed group (example here: https://ibb.co/mFRv9QY). It seems that a bit from one of the tab icons in the group stays visible after the group is collapsed. Using Chrome 102. It would be nice if this extension worked better together with the "Open Last Tab" extension. As it is, the two extensions kind of work together, but nor perfectly.

Telmo Amaral 2022-06-05

It works and it's really useful. It should be an option built into Chrome. Minor issue: often a small artifact shows up to the right of the last auto-collapsed group (example here: https://ibb.co/mFRv9QY). It seems that a bit from one of the tab icons in the group stays visible after the group is collapsed. Using Chrome 102. It would be nice if this extension worked better together with the "Open Last Tab" extension. As it is, the two extensions kind of work together, but nor perfectly.

Stealthbat 2022-05-26

First of all, I love this extension. However, as of late, it's stopped working whenever I first open up chrome. After I manually collapse all my group tabs, it starts working again. But once I close chrome it stops working till I've re-launched chrome and manually collapsed all group tabs. This extension use to work perfectly. But after I had to reinstall my OS, it stopped working. Please, please, PLEASE fix this! I beg you!

Stealthbat 2022-05-26

First of all, I love this extension. However, as of late, it's stopped working whenever I first open up chrome. After I manually collapse all my group tabs, it starts working again. But once I close chrome it stops working till I've re-launched chrome and manually collapsed all group tabs. This extension use to work perfectly. But after I had to reinstall my OS, it stopped working. Please, please, PLEASE fix this! I beg you!

Loris Stavrinides 2022-04-27

Doesn't work

Loris Stavrinides 2022-04-27

Doesn't work

Azhe Kun 2022-04-10

I like Auto Collapse for Tab Groups Can limit expanded tab group to current tab group and prev tab group?

Azhe Kun 2022-04-10

I like Auto Collapse for Tab Groups Can limit expanded tab group to current tab group and prev tab group?

Derek Kelly 2022-03-04

Cannot get this to work on Version 99.0.4844.51 (Official Build) (64-bit).

Derek Kelly 2022-03-04

Cannot get this to work on Version 99.0.4844.51 (Official Build) (64-bit).

Ryan Ceroky 2022-02-17

Works as described and can be useful. I would love to be able to limit the collapse to just one window, instead of all Chrome windows. When using multiple monitors with multiple windows and groups, I often want to look at 2 different windows at the same time. It would be helpful to only collapse groups within one window, not across all windows, thus keeping one group expanded in each window at all times.

Ryan Ceroky 2022-02-17

Works as described and can be useful. I would love to be able to limit the collapse to just one window, instead of all Chrome windows. When using multiple monitors with multiple windows and groups, I often want to look at 2 different windows at the same time. It would be helpful to only collapse groups within one window, not across all windows, thus keeping one group expanded in each window at all times.

Nenad Bogdanovski 2022-01-07

Just found out about it, really usefull!!! Thanks

Nenad Bogdanovski 2022-01-07

Just found out about it, really usefull!!! Thanks

Haim Zamir 2021-11-30

Want to use it, but it just isn't working for me on Chrome 95 at all. I've tried disabling/re-enabling, creating new groups, etc. Nothing. Maybe just maybe I'm different because I'm using a pair of chrome profiles? Extensions are enabled separately on each. I've got it on both profiles, but neither of them work.

Haim Zamir 2021-11-30

Want to use it, but it just isn't working for me on Chrome 95 at all. I've tried disabling/re-enabling, creating new groups, etc. Nothing. Maybe just maybe I'm different because I'm using a pair of chrome profiles? Extensions are enabled separately on each. I've got it on both profiles, but neither of them work.

Kerry Johnson 2021-11-13

Works well! Two options that would make it perfect for me: 1. Auto-collapse all but last active tab (this is handy when you are referencing and moving back and forth between two tabs) 2. Auto-collapse timer (prevent collapsing right away, helpful for misclicks)

Kerry Johnson 2021-11-13

Works well! Two options that would make it perfect for me: 1. Auto-collapse all but last active tab (this is handy when you are referencing and moving back and forth between two tabs) 2. Auto-collapse timer (prevent collapsing right away, helpful for misclicks)

Sello Mkantjwa 2021-11-12

Works perfectly. Thank you very much. - Sello

Sello Mkantjwa 2021-11-12

Works perfectly. Thank you very much. - Sello

Vladimir (cuqi) 2021-10-06

Very useful.

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Installs
3,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
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Rating
4.02 (43 votes)
Last update
2021-06-11
Version 1.1
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