Best Open Source Tab Manager for Privacy
Patrick Bushe · May 1, 2026
Tab Manager isn't open source, but it's built to keep your tabs private: it has no account, no access to the content of the pages you visit, and it stores sessions in your browser's local extension storage rather than on a server. The one thing it loads from the internet is its fonts, from Google Fonts. If open source matters to you, Tab Session Manager and The Marvellous Suspender are open-source options.
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