The same tool, opened two ways
Clicking the eggz Tab Manager button in your toolbar opens the same thing either of two ways. A floating card appears over the page you are reading. This is what you get out of the box. It sits on top of the page, so nothing on the page moves, reflows or resizes, and you can drag it anywhere and resize it. A docked side panel uses Chrome’s own panel at the edge of the window. The page makes room for it, and it stays open as you move from tab to tab. Both show exactly the same thing: your open tabs, your workspaces, the AI assistant, search and settings.Choosing which one the button opens
Open Settings (the gear at the top of the card or panel) and the second section is Open as:
The change takes effect on your very next click of the toolbar button. There is nothing to reload.
The toolbar button is an on/off switch
It is not a switch between the two doors. Whichever one is open, the button closes it, and off always wins:- Side panel open in this window? The button closes it.
- Nothing open? The button opens whichever door Open as names.
- On a page that cannot host a card, it opens the panel rather than doing nothing.
Chrome does not let extensions draw on some pages: its own
chrome:// settings pages, the Web Store, page source, and local files. On those, the button opens the side panel instead, whichever way you have set Open as.The floating card
Click the button and the card appears at the right-hand edge of the page, roughly the width of a side panel and the full height of the window less a small margin. Along its top edge, from left to right, you get a grip of dots at the very left. Drag the top bar anywhere that is not a button to move the card, exactly like a window’s title bar. Double-click the eggz logo to tuck the card away to the nearest side of the screen as the mascot; click the mascot to bring it back exactly as it was. Next come Light / dark mode, Open Dashboard and Settings — the same three buttons, in the same order, as the side panel. (If you have switched on the approvals inbox, its button sits at the front of that group.) At the end sits Close, on its own. Move towards it and three more slide out from behind it:
Two sizes rather than a fixed list of them, because you can also drag any edge or corner of the card to make it any size you like. Whichever preset you are currently in is highlighted. The card remembers where you put it and what size you made it, separately for each screen size, so a spot you chose on a big external monitor is not imposed on your laptop screen later.
The card stays with you. Go to a new page or switch to another tab and the card is still there — it belongs to the window, not to the tab, the same way Chrome’s own side panel does. One thing does not survive a page change: an AI answer still being written.
Click the toolbar button again to close the card. Closing it means closed — it does not reappear on your next tab switch.
The docked side panel
This is Chrome’s own panel, at the edge of the window. The header carries the same buttons the card does, in the same order:
If you have switched on the automation approvals inbox, its button joins the front of that row, with a badge showing how many decisions are waiting.
If the page underneath cannot take a card — Chrome’s own pages, the Web Store, PDFs — the panel stays where it is rather than closing into nothing.
Underneath sit three tabs: Workspaces, AI Assistant and Search.
Workspaces is home. Your Open Tabs list is at the top, then your workspaces, your folders, and a collapsed Archived section at the bottom if you have any. New beside the Workspaces heading creates a workspace. Hover that heading and a folder icon appears beside it for a new folder.
AI Assistant is the chat, and Search finds workspaces, open tabs, saved tabs and saved links as you type.
If you have set Open Tabs to Dedicated tab in Settings, an Open Tabs tab joins the row too.