Live Tabs

Real-time mirror of your browser tabs directly in the sidebar - switch between tabs across all browsers without leaving your keyboard.

Live Tabs gives you a single bird’s-eye view of every open tab across every browser on your Mac. Safari, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, and 20+ other browsers all appear in one collapsible list in the SupaSidebar panel, so you can search, switch to, close, or save any tab from any browser without alt-tabbing through windows. When a SupaSidebar space is linked to a browser profile, the list filters to only that profile’s tabs, so work and personal sessions stay siloed.

Setup

1. Open Preferences - Tabs & History
2. Choose your mode using the card selector: Live Tabs, Recents, or None
3. Grant browser permissions when prompted

For detailed permission setup, see Permissions Guide.

Supported browsers

SupaSidebar supports Live Tabs across 20+ browsers. Each installed browser shows its real app icon in the sidebar.

See Browser Support for the full compatibility table.

Collapsible browser sections

Each browser appears as a collapsible section in the Live Tabs list. Click the browser header to expand or collapse its tabs. This keeps the list manageable when you have tabs open across multiple browsers.

View-mode switch

The Live Tabs section header has a small toggle that switches the list between compact and detailed views. Compact shows favicon and title on one line, detailed adds the URL and extra hover icons. The same toggle is also available on the Recent Links header, and the choice is remembered per section.

Per-URL colors

Assign a custom color to specific URLs so your live tabs are easier to scan. Right-click a live tab and choose Color to pick a tint that follows that URL across every browser and window. Colors are matched against the URL, so the same site keeps the same color whether it’s open in Chrome, Safari, or Brave.

To remove a color, right-click the tab and choose Clear Color. URL colors persist across sessions and sync via iCloud.

Switch to Tab

Search for an open tab by title in the Command Panel or click it in the Live Tabs list to switch to it instantly. SupaSidebar activates the existing tab in the correct browser window.

Duplicate tabs are automatically deduplicated in the list, so you see each unique page only once.

Close and save tabs

Right-click any live tab to manage it directly from the sidebar. Works in both expanded mode and compact mode.

Drag and drop

Drag tabs from the Live Tabs list to save them anywhere in your sidebar:

• To Pinned Tabs - Drop onto the pinned section to pin a tab for quick access
• To folders - Drop into any folder to save and organize
• To spaces - Drop into a space to save at the root level

You can also drag from Recent Items into Pinned Tabs or saved links the same way.

Active tab highlight

The currently open tab is visually highlighted in the Live Tabs list, making it easy to spot where you are across multiple browsers.

Privacy and filtering

You can hide specific sites, domains, or entire browsers from the Live Tabs list using the Privacy Blocklist. See Privacy Blocklist to configure what stays private.

Smart Tab Reuse

When you click a saved link that’s already open in a browser tab, SupaSidebar activates the existing tab instead of opening a duplicate. Tracking parameters (utm_*, gclid, fbclid) are ignored when matching URLs, so a link will still match its open tab even if the saved URL has different tracking params.

Pinned tabs also support Cmd Opt Click to replace the active browser tab in place, with a normal-open fallback if the browser can’t swap tabs.

If a link opens a new tab instead of switching to the existing one, see Link Opens New Tab Instead of Switching.

Profile filtering

When a space is linked to a browser profile, Live Tabs automatically filters to show only tabs from that profile. Tabs from other profiles are hidden.

Spaces without a linked profile show all browser tabs as usual.

See Browser Profiles for how to link profiles to spaces.

Keyboard shortcuts

Shortcuts specific to Live Tabs. For all shortcuts, see Shortcuts.