Tab Guardian version history - 16 versions
Tab Guardian by Serhii
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Latest version
Version 1.16.3
Released Oct 29, 2025 - 1.47 MBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed bug where tabs would not close.
Source code released under MIT License
Older versions
Version 1.16.2
Released Oct 29, 2025 - 1.43 MBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed bug when creating a private group with attached URL. Sometimes, the
Selectbutton would be disabled and you couldn't proceed with creation. - 🐛 Fixed bug with tab duplications when adding and sorting them #37.
Source code released under MIT License
- 🐛 Fixed bug when creating a private group with attached URL. Sometimes, the
Version 1.16.1
Released Oct 27, 2025 - 1.43 MBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🧑💻 Added more tests to the codebase.
- 🚀 Improved performance of fetching groups from storage.
- 🐛 Fixed bug which was deleting multiple duplicate tabs when you wanted to remove only 1 #87.
- 🐛 Fixed bug when you try to use quick open button for private groups.
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.16.0
Released Oct 23, 2025 - 1.63 MBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🧑💻 Improved performance for the main (home) page with loading groups.
- 🧑💻 Improved "Add tabs" and "Create" buttons visibility #84.
- 🧑💻 Added showing small pin icon on the tab icon in a group if the tab is pinned #83.
- 🧑💻 Improve styles for tab icons in a group.
- 🧑💻 Added 1 more "Pin" icon to choose for a group.
- 🧑💻 Added more tests to the codebase.
- 🐛 Fixed validation error message text when password is empty. It was
password_empty. - 🐛 Fixed not working "Cancel" button when choosing group icon.
- ✨ Added "Detach URL Lock" functionality to settings #61.
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.15.0
Released Oct 19, 2025 - 1.42 MBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- ✨ Group icon on a group page is now clickable. It will open "Choose Icon" interface #53.
- ✨ Private groups can now be bound to any URL that you provide for additional security #65.
- ✨ Public groups can now be changed into private groups with a simple button click in group popup menu #73.
- 🐛 Fixed issue where you couldn't use 👎️ and 👍️ emojis as your group icon.
- 🐛 Fixed the font contrast on a lock/unlock group button.
- 🐛 Fixed not working tooltip helper on the
Paste tabs herebutton. - 🐛 When you make a private group open (public), cached password now will be deleted as well.
- 🐛 Fixed bug where tabs would not open for private locked groups when you try to do it on the main screen with all the groups listed.
- 🧑💻 The "Bound URL" can now be modified when you create a new private group.
- 🧑💻 The
about:homeFirefox's page will be also closed when you restore tabs from a group. - 🧑💻 Refactoring of the codebase;
- 🧑💻 Added a shield icon to private groups when you open them. It's on the left of the group name.
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.14.1
Released Oct 16, 2025 - 1.42 MBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed development environment. App wasn't working on Chrome-based browsers.
- 🐛 Fixed incorrect implementation of popup functionality.
- 🧑💻 Replaced
Sweetalert 2confirmation modals with custom popup for consistency. - 🧑💻 Removed
sweetalert2dependency. - 🧑💻 When you export a private group, it will now will be encrypted with 2 layers. First layer encrypts only JSON fields, the second encryption layer encrypts the whole JSON export file.
- 🧑💻 Changed named of exported files to not include
.jsonextension, since we don't use JSON for exports anymore.
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.14.0
Released Oct 14, 2025 - 660.52 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed potential bugs with encryption/decryption
- 🐛 Fixed showing password validation error when password and confirmation passwords are empty. Now, it doesn't show error
- 🐛 Fixed restoring tabs would not recalculate showing notification that you have unlocked groups #79
- ✨ Improved export/import functionality. Now, you can export all groups with a password protection #77
- ✨ Exported files are now compressed with Gzip
- ✨ Add Gzip compression when exporting individual groups
- 🧑💻 Huge refactoring of the core logic
- 🧑💻 Improve performance of "Erase all groups" functionality
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.13.2
Released Oct 3, 2025 - 954.43 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed a bug where tabs would not close when you create a new group or adding more tabs to existing group
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.13.1
Released Oct 2, 2025 - 954.08 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed Chromium error for using badge on extension icon
- 🐛 Fixed bug where you couldn't create a new public group
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.13.0
Released Oct 2, 2025 - 954.06 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed issue with creating private group and it wouldn't remember the password the user entered. Plus, this change improved the performance of creating a private group
- 🐛 Fixed incorrect bytes calculation on Firefox-based browsers. It was showing used space a little bit more than it really was
- 🐛 Fixed wrong groups sort order when you import all groups. Now, groups will be in the same order that they were when you exported them
- 🧑💻 Remove "import" button from importing groups on settings page #60
- 🧑💻 A lot of refactoring and rewriting logic for creating a new group
- 🧑💻 When you add a new tab to a group, it will be appended to the end instead of the list
- 🧑💻 Now, when you open tabs, additional empty pages like
about:blankandabout:privatebrowsingwill be automatically closed #64 - 🧑💻 Remove
Importbuttom from settings page. Now, when you select a file, it will be automatically uploaded #60 - 🧑💻 Now, you cannot rename private groups without unlocking them #56
- 🧑💻 Change enter password max attempts to 5 and lock duration to 10 minutes. It means you have 5 attempts to enter the correct password, after which you will be unable to enter a password for 10 minutes
- 🧑💻 Refactored settings page into a different design
- 🧑💻 Added "Clear Cache" section to settings which only appears if you have any useless data in your cache that can be safely deleted to free up the space
- ✨ Added 3 more black and white icons for groups
- ✨ Added a spinner to the main (home) page where groups are loaded #70
- ✨ Added a spinner when you export all groups in settings, which indicates that groups are being exported #68
- ✨ Added a spinner to the "Export a group" button in group popup menu #66
- ✨ Added a spinner to the "Create" button when you create a group or add more links to it #67
- ✨ Added functionality that prevents from overloading storage. It will give you an error message that you used all of your quota #58
- ✨ Added "Remember my password after unlock" option to settings, which you can toggle #62
- ✨ Added minimum password length requirement with
6characters #63 - ✨ Added the ability to make your private groups open #69
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Version 1.12.0
Released Sep 24, 2025 - 920.23 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- ✨ Added improved encryption algoriphm
AES-GCMwith WEB Crypto API without breaking backward compatibility #54 - ✨ Added showing a warning message on private groups that use the old encryption implementation to suggest them to re-encrypt for improved security
- ✨ Added a loading spinner that appears when you unlock and lock the private group #55
- ✨ Added a progress bar that shows progress on encryption and decryption of groups
- 🧑💻 Change password attempts from 2 to 3 for incorrect password because 3 is a sweet spot
- 🧑💻 Change keybind from
command + ktocontrol+command+kon macos
Source code released under MIT License
- ✨ Added improved encryption algoriphm
Version 1.11.0
Released Sep 10, 2025 - 891.55 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and laterSource code released under MIT License
Version 1.10.0
Released Sep 5, 2025 - 595.64 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- ✨ Added copy and cut tabs from a group into a different group #39
- ✨ Added 3 more black and white icons for groups
- ✨ Added emoji picker when you choose an emoji for your group as an icon
- ✨ Added preview for the image group icon when you choose it #38
- 🧑💻 Changed,: when you export a group, it will have a slugifying version of the group name. For example, 'Test Group' will have the name 'test-group.json'
- 🐛 Fixed not visible version number in the right bottom of the sidebar
- 🐛 Fixed a small style issue on a sidebar where the amount of bytes used were showing #40 #42
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.9.3
Released Aug 13, 2025 - 576.17 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- Fixed wrong "Release Notes" link in the sidebar
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.9.1
Released Aug 4, 2025 - 576.16 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and later- 🐛 Fixed "Move tabs into group" button not working properly. Tabs weren't closing
- 🐛 Some links caused errors when opening them. Links like
about:debugging,about:config, etc. - 🐛 You couldn't change group icons to some favicon icons before
Source code released under MIT License
Version 1.9.0
Released Jul 23, 2025 - 576.05 KBWorks with firefox 58.0 and laterSource code released under MIT License