wcchristian / chrome-tab-renamer

A tab renamer extension for google chrome.

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Chrome Tab Renamer

A tab renamer extension for google chrome. This extension will allow you to choose a new name for your tab, this can be useful if you have the same web app open in multiple tabs.

Tutorial

For practice, I included the chrome extension tutorial in the tutorial folder of this repo. Tutorial Link

How to use

1. Navigate to a tab that you wish to rename
2. Click the Chrome Tab Renamer extension button.
3. Type the new name for your tab
4. Click the "Change Tab Name" or press enter to rename the tab.

Omnibox

This chrome extension can make use of the omnibox with the prefix ctr

Hotkey

The default chrome hotkey is Ctrl/Command+E

Persistance

By selecting the persist option, this extension will persist your tab rename even if you navigate to a different page in your tab.

Un-selecting this option means that any pageload will remove your option.

Options

The options menu allows you to view all of your current renames, delete them, clear all of them, etc.

Screenshots

Named Tabs

Title input

Omnibox Support

Options Support

Development

Build

To build the extension from deployment, run:

./build.sh

To clean the repository from build artifacts, run:

./clean.sh

Versioning

When adding a new version, make sure to update manifest.json and build.sh