Search Chrome tabs. Read the whole title.

Find the page you meant to keep

When several tabs have the same favicon, the small strip at the top of Chrome gives you very little to go on. Tabula puts the tabs from your current Chrome window in a sidebar where long titles wrap onto multiple lines. You can read the page name before switching to it.

Search is a text filter over tab titles and URLs. It ignores letter case: typing a distinctive phrase or part of a domain is enough. You do not need AI, an API key or a regular expression.

1. Install Tabula from the Chrome Web Store and open its toolbar popup. Pin the extension in Chrome if you want it within easy reach.
2. Use the sidebar action in the popup to open Tabula’s side panel.
3. Select the search icon in the sidebar, then type part of the title or URL.
4. Select a matching tab to switch to that page. Clear the search to return to the full list.

Use the detail you remember

Suppose you have “React documentation — Synchronizing with Effects” and “React documentation — You Might Not Need an Effect” open. Searching for “synchronizing” narrows the list to the first page. Searching for “react.dev” can find both through their URLs. These are illustrative titles; your sidebar shows your own open tabs.

A distinctive word works better than a broad phrase such as “docs”. The search matches a continuous piece of text, so try a shorter phrase if you are not sure of the exact wording. Long titles wrap in the sidebar instead of being squeezed into a horizontal tab.

Search inside collapsed groups, too

You can collapse groups to shorten your sidebar during normal browsing. While searching, matching tabs inside those groups remain visible, so you do not have to open each group by hand.

Grouping and searching solve different problems. Groups keep related work together; search takes you to one specific page. Use domain grouping for a quick sort, or custom title and domain rules when your projects need more control.

If the tab does not appear

Check that the page is still open in the current Chrome window and try a shorter word or a domain fragment. If it is in another window, switch to that window and open its Tabula sidebar. This is a search of open tabs, not a search engine for the contents of every page, your bookmarks or your browsing history.

If you remember a sentence inside an article but it is not in the page title or URL, the sidebar filter will not match it. Locate the page first, then use Chrome’s Find command to search within its contents.