Tabberwocky Privacy Policy

The Tabberwocky Tab Defenestrator Chrome extension is designed to use metadata about your open tabs to help you reduce and organize them.

All your data stays on your device. The extension doesn't read page content or track browsing. No analytics, no remote servers, no information about users or user behavior shared or sold.

Data Used

  • URLs and titles of your open tabs (never the full page content)
  • Tab metadata (position, time last accessed, state, group membership)
  • Window information (used to group and merge tabs)
  • Website favicons (used for visual display in the side panel)
Why:
For tab management and organization features including closing, sorting, grouping, and merging tabs
Where:
Tab information is temporary in-memory; extension data is stored locally on your device
How long:
Tab data is cleared when tabs close. No browsing history stored.
Sharing:
None. No data leaves your device.

What Tabberwocky Doesn't Do

  • Read page content or information submitted to sites
  • Access Incognito tabs, or browsing history for tabs no longer open
  • Contain any code to transmit data externally
  • Require host permissions or run on web pages
  • Use analytics, tracking, or external services
Current Window 12
xkcd: Tab Explosion
xkcd.com/609/
Amazon.com
www.amazon.com/Sticky-Tabs-Notes
Mom Keeping Tabs On Coyote Situation
theonion.com/mom-keeping-tabs
Tabs Pattern | APG | WAI | W3C
www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/patterns/tabs/
Jabberwocky - Alice-in-Wonderland.net
www.alice-in-wonderland.net/jabberwocky/
Feed | LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com/feed/
One Good Fact about Tab Keys | Britannica
www.britannica.com/one-good-fact
Save TaB Soda – Convince Coca-Cola
savetabsoda.com/
The punched card tabulator | IBM
www.ibm.com/history/punched-card-tabulator
Play Taboo Online Now
playtaboo.com/playpage/
8 Facts About Tabby Cats - YouTube
www.youtube.com/watch
pop tab chainmail - YouTube
www.youtube.com/playlist
Click icon to close associated tabs
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To learn more about the Tabberwocky features and functionality, please see the walkthrough.

Permissions Details

Permission Data Accessed How it's Harnessed
tabs Accessed only while tabs are open:

tab.id - Chrome's internal identifier
tab.url - Current URL
tab.title - Page title
tab.favIconUrl - Favicon URL
tab.lastAccessed - Last accessed timestamp
tab.windowId - Window ID and position
tab.active - Active/inactive status
tab.index - Position within window
• Organize tabs by domain
• Find and close duplicates
• Merge tabs between windows
• Display tab information in UI
tabGroups • Tab group IDs and metadata
• Group titles, colors, collapsed state
• Preserve tab group organization during window merge operations
• Preserve tab group integrity when ungrouped tabs are sorted
favicon • Website favicon image URLs
• Favicon image data
• Display website icons in domain grid
• Create favicon proxy for chrome:// pages
storage • Tab state data via chrome.storage.local
• Temporary tab organization data
• Sync real-time tab changes to UI
• Store temporary tab organization data
• Enable live interface updates
sidePanel • UI display permission only • Display the sidepanel
• Provide tab management controls
contextMenus • No data accessed
• Right-click menu creation only
• Add "About" option for right clicking on the extension favicon in Chrome toolbar. This points to the Tabberwocky walkthrough.

Policy Changes

9/3/25:
Added tabGroups permission. This is needed to preserve tab group integrity during tab sorting and windows merge operations.
8/22/25:
Initial policy publication.

Questions?

User Guide
eric@tabberwocky.org