Tab Spotlight is a Spotlight-style tab switcher for Chrome. Designed for keyboard-first usage to quickly find and switch between your browser tabs.
- 🚀 Instant Search – Find any tab by title or URL with fuzzy matching
- ⌨️ Keyboard First – Designed for speed, no mouse needed
- 🎨 Beautiful UI – Clean, minimal design that adapts to your system theme
- 🌗 Light & Dark Mode – Automatically matches your system preference
| Action | Mac | Windows/Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Open Tab Spotlight | ⌘ + Shift + S |
Ctrl + Shift + S |
| Navigate results | ↑ / ↓ |
↑ / ↓ |
| Switch to tab | Enter |
Enter |
| Close overlay | Esc |
Esc |
| Close selected tab | ⌘ + W |
Ctrl + W |
(Coming soon)
- Download or clone this repository
- Open Chrome and go to
chrome://extensions/ - Enable "Developer mode" in the top right corner
- Click "Load unpacked"
- Select the folder containing this project
This project includes an automated packaging script to generate the .zip file for Chrome Web Store publishing.
# Navigate to project directory cd /path/to/TabSpotlight # Run the release script ./release.sh
Note: If you encounter permission issues, run
chmod +x release.shfirst.
The script generates TabSpotlight.zip ready for upload to Chrome Web Store.
Tab Spotlight works entirely locally. No data is collected or sent anywhere.
MIT License