Search and keyboard shortcuts

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Search and keyboard shortcuts · Documentation

Use the popup search when you know part of a tab's title or URL. Results can include tabs from more than one Chrome window, subject to the active window and group filters.

Search tabs

Steps

Open Tab Organizer from the toolbar, or press ⌥O on Mac and Alt+O on Windows/Linux.
Place focus in Search tabs... and type a title, domain, or URL fragment.

If expected results are missing, clear any group or window filter.
Select a result to activate its tab. Chrome also focuses the correct window when the result belongs elsewhere.
Use Clear search or press Escape once to remove the query.

If the query is already empty, Escape closes the popup. Search filters the tabs currently displayed by the extension; it is not a search of closed tabs or full browsing history.

Move through results

With a query entered:

press ArrowDown to move to the next result;
press ArrowUp to move to the previous result;
press Enter to activate the highlighted result, or the first result when none is highlighted; and
press Escape to clear the query.

The Chrome command ⌥⇧A on Mac or Alt+Shift+A on Windows/Linux activates the first search result. Check the highlighted title before pressing it when several tabs have similar names.

Keyboard shortcuts

This version defines 11 shortcuts: four Chrome commands and seven controls for the open extension interface. Mac defaults appear first, followed by Windows/Linux. Chrome commands can be reassigned at chrome://extensions/shortcuts; popup controls cannot.

Default keyboard shortcuts in Tab Organizer
Action	Mac	Windows/Linux	Scope
Open Tab Organizer	`⌥O`	`Alt+O`	Chrome command; opens the popup or the configured primary Side Panel.
Activate first search result	`⌥⇧A`	`Alt+Shift+A`	Chrome command; assignment can be changed in Chrome's extension shortcuts.
Close all tabs except active	`⌥⇧K`	`Alt+Shift+K`	Chrome command; assignment can be changed in Chrome's extension shortcuts.
Collapse all groups except the active one	`⌥⇧C`	`Alt+Shift+C`	Chrome command; assignment can be changed in Chrome's extension shortcuts.
Cycle to next context profile	`⌥⇧P`	`Alt+Shift+P`	Extension UI; works while the popup or Side Panel is open.
Focus search	`/`	`/`	Extension UI; works while the popup or Side Panel is open.
Show keyboard shortcut help	`?`	`?`	Extension UI; works while the popup or Side Panel is open.
Highlight search results

Shortcut conflicts

Chrome can leave a command unassigned or change whether it works globally when another extension or the operating system claims the same key combination.

Enter chrome://extensions/shortcuts in Chrome's address bar.
Find Tab Organizer.
Check whether each command has a shortcut and whether Chrome reports a conflict.
Assign an available combination if needed.
Return to a normal browser window and test the command.

Shortcut assignments are managed by Chrome. Reinstalling the extension should not be your first troubleshooting step because it can discard extension state.