Tab Switcher

TabPilot AI is a keyboard-first tab controller for Chrome. Alt + a number jumps straight to that tab, so navigating a window full of research, docs and dashboards never needs the mouse. Tabs are listed in current-window order with favicons and domains, and a search field filters them by title or domain as you type.

It ships in three surfaces that share one state: a compact popup for quick jumps, a floating mini HUD that can be dragged, resized or collapsed to a pill and stays pinned over any normal webpage, and a full side panel with a denser tab list. A temporary session note pad sits alongside them for scratch text that clears when the browser session ends.

"TypeRight" mode is the detail power users care about: when it is on, the extension captures the shortcut even inside inputs and editors, so Alt+2 switches tabs instead of triggering the page's own behaviour. Turn it off and text fields behave normally again.

The Control Center exposes everything else — shortcut modifier and tab ordering, HUD size and visibility, side panel theme, density and card style, favicon and URL display, and whether the page theme is reapplied after a reload. Chrome only allows four suggested default shortcuts (Alt+1 to Alt+4), so the extension lists every registered command with its current binding and links straight to chrome://extensions/shortcuts to bind the rest.

Under the hood it is a Manifest V3 extension: a service worker coordinates commands, a content script injects the HUD and page-level shortcuts, and all preferences persist through chrome.storage.local so settings survive restarts.