TabCarousel
Extension Actions
- Extension status: Featured
- Live on Store
Cycle through your Chrome tabs automatically. Great for monitoring information on a TV with a computer attached.
A Chrome extension to help you keep tabs on info you want to monitor. It's great for cycling through tabs on an external display, like a TV.
Authors: Benjamin Oakes, Madhur Ahuja, and Jim Adamson
Tutorial
TabCarousel is simple: open tabs you want to monitor throughout the day, then click the toolbar icon. To stop, click the icon again.
By default, TabCarousel will flip through your tabs every 15 s, reloading them every 5 min. It's great on a unused display or TV. Put Chrome in full-screen mode (F11, or cmd-shift-f on the Mac) and let it go.
If you want to change how often TabCarousel flips through your tabs, right click on the toolbar icon and choose "Options".
New in 1.0.3 (2024-06-21):
* Sponsorship links
New in 1.0.2 (2024-06-19):
* Fix no carouselling when flipWait set to > 30 seconds (Thank you, Jim Adamson!)
New in 1.0.1 (2024-06-10):
* Fixed auto startup (Thank you, Madhur Ahuja!)
New in 1.0.0 (2023-12-26):
* Manifest v3 support (Thank you, Madhur Ahuja!)
New in 0.5.4 (2020-05-14):
* Reduce permissions for Chrome Web Store policies
New in 0.5.3 (2012-08-21):
* Bug fixes
New in 0.5.2 (2011-07-06):
* Added an option to start Carousel automatically, by request from a user
* Tabs that have previously failed to reload now reload correctly
* Carousel now only flips through tabs in the window in which it was started
Example Uses
On a computer that has an external display (like an HDTV), try opening:
* NewRelic - Open as many tabs as you want for your apps -- don't forget to turn on "kiosk mode"
* Twitter - Make a list of services you use, for example, and open it
* Status sites:
* GitHub
* Heroku
* Monitor your CI service
* Packages with tracking information
* Anything else that's on the web that you want to monitor
The TabCarousel wiki on GitHub has more: https://github.com/TabCarousel/TabCarousel/wiki
TabCarousel is open source software. Contributions are welcome, as are suggestions and bug reports. Check the project out at https://github.com/TabCarousel/TabCarousel
Latest reviews
- Jason Black
- Best way to rotate fitness leaderboards that I create with keepthescore.com.
- Jordan Weaver
- It works great. The best part is that it requires zero extra permissions. It would be 5 stars if it allowed me to change the auto refresh time or disable it.
- Jordan Weaver
- It works great. The best part is that it requires zero extra permissions. It would be 5 stars if it allowed me to change the auto refresh time or disable it.
- Alexandra Melia
- It's good, but very disappointing you can't use full screen mode
- Alexandra Melia
- It's good, but very disappointing you can't use full screen mode
- AC KA
- Feedback from early users has clearly been taken on board as this extension works perfectly IMO. From one dev to another, excellent job mate :)
- AC KA
- Feedback from early users has clearly been taken on board as this extension works perfectly IMO. From one dev to another, excellent job mate :)
- Eduardo Fernández
- This extension is useful if you have static images/gifs displaying in multiple tabs. If you want to cycle through videos, or have videos be on loop this is NOT FOR YOU. This extension unfortunately doesn't reload the page and disables loop from a video that has loop selected.
- Wong Eric
- 赞得一逼，肥肠好用！
- Jeroen Hutjens
- Very helpful and simple tool. Does exactly what it needs to do, cycle through tabs and refresh them once in a while... Great!
- Jeroen Hutjens
- Very helpful and simple tool. Does exactly what it needs to do, cycle through tabs and refresh them once in a while... Great!
- Alexandra Huang
- Yes yes yes. I have to monitor several screens for my work and this is literally perfect. Thank you so much for making it!!
- Alexandra Huang
- Yes yes yes. I have to monitor several screens for my work and this is literally perfect. Thank you so much for making it!!
- Marlow Quast
- Works great! I've had it running constantly between reports and refreshing now for over a week. Leadership is happy to see live (or close to live) data as they walk by the team's area.
- Marlow Quast
- Works great! I've had it running constantly between reports and refreshing now for over a week. Leadership is happy to see live (or close to live) data as they walk by the team's area.
- Paul Calabro
- Very useful application for monitoring graphs and charts. One recommendation would be to have the extension run on the selected window, not all open Chrome windows. You don't necessarily want all browser windows doing this.
- Paul Calabro
- Very useful application for monitoring graphs and charts. One recommendation would be to have the extension run on the selected window, not all open Chrome windows. You don't necessarily want all browser windows doing this.
- Alexander Thomas
- Requests focus when switching tabs, no option for turning off auto-refresh (despite being set at 5 minutes--this is still too short for my uses). If these were fixed, I would happily use this.
- Alexander Thomas
- Requests focus when switching tabs, no option for turning off auto-refresh (despite being set at 5 minutes--this is still too short for my uses). If these were fixed, I would happily use this.
- David Wear
- Really like this. Only recommendation would be to have the refresh time adjustable, or turn it off. I have a page that needs a login again after refresh, so refresh only hurts in this case.
- David Wear
- Really like this. Only recommendation would be to have the refresh time adjustable, or turn it off. I have a page that needs a login again after refresh, so refresh only hurts in this case.