DiscreetTab
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Hides the favicon and the title of the website in the browser tab.
DiscreetTab – Hide Tab Titles & Icons for Privacy
DiscreetTab is a lightweight, privacy-focused extension that lets you hide tab titles and favicons, making your browsing more discreet in shared or public environments.
✅ What’s New in v1.3
Unified Storage Backend
All extension components now use a single storage system (chrome.storage.sync), replacing previous mixed usage with storage.local. This ensures consistent behavior, faster synchronization across devices, and eliminates data desynchronization issues.
Optimized DOM Monitoring
Replaced the previous 2-second polling loop with a MutationObserver that reacts instantly to title or favicon changes. This improves responsiveness and reduces background CPU usage.
New Features & UX Enhancements
Discreet List Management in Options
You can now view and manage your “discreet list” directly from the options page — control which domains automatically activate discreet mode.
Custom Domain Aliases
Assign personalized aliases (e.g., “Work”, “Bank”) to specific domains. If not set, DiscreetTab continues using the global titleFormat.
Optional Sync Toggle
Added a setting to enable or disable synchronization per device. You can keep your discreet settings identical across devices but choose whether the extension is active locally — perfect for users who want portability without always-on behavior.
Latest reviews
- jackson venza
- To start, I am using the default Dark Mode theme on Google Chrome on my MacBook Pro. When inserting a direct image link for the favicon, it seems to automatically convert the light color favicon I pasted into a dark color one. For example, I am trying to replicate the Google Chrome [Dark Mode] "New Tab" icon (dark grey background, white/light grey Chrome logo) to use with my DiscreetTab, but it always make the logo dark. Perhaps there is a way fix to this, but as of right now, there is no information. This slightly underdelivers on the immersion and discretion I'm seeking from from this extension, but otherwise, everything else works very well. The setup is easy and convenient, and I would definitely recommend it to boost your privacy.
- Tarek Nassef
- Excellent Brother !! Work Very well !! thanks ^__^
- griffin
- suggested improvements: support for sleeping tabs, including for extensions such as autotabdiscard. remembering discreeterised tabs across sessions and domains, possibly by saving to the currently signed in google account. complete blocking of favicon.ico from ever being cached on a tab that has been discreeterised across that particular tab's entire session, with optionally defaulting to being discreeterised on new tab. removal of default favicon.ico so it only shows title or _ text on each tab. love the extension, as someone that constantly has several tabs and sessions operating at any one time, and appreciate efficient coding. do you accept donations?
- Lee Keating
- Cool
- Dawn Brockman
- Not to bad could be better. It would be nice to save the settings per tab and not reset after refresh. And it would be nice to have something other then a _. Maybe numbers like 1,2,3 numbering each open tab or have Tab, Tab (1), Tab (2) or something like that. But pretty cool starting out I guess.