Two of your tabs are the same invoice page, one for Birdsong Pottery and one for Marchmont Cafe. On the tab strip they look identical. Somewhere behind you, three copies of the same article are quietly eating memory.
This page covers the tools for all of that: your own names on tabs, saving a page for later, closing duplicates, and putting a tab to sleep. Most of them are one click or one right-click away.
Right-click on any normal web page and you will find an eggz Tab Manager menu with three fast actions that work without opening the panel:
The Move tab to workspace list shows your most recently used workspaces first, so the clients you are actually juggling today are always at the top. It lists up to 25.
Rename any tab
Two tabs on the same page for different clients look identical on the tab strip, and mixing them up is how the wrong invoice gets sent. Give each one your own name and you will not have to guess.
There are three ways to rename:
- Right-click the page and choose eggz Tab Manager → Rename this tab…. A small bar drops down from the top of the page. Type the name and click Save. Click Reset to go back to the page’s own title.
- In the Open Tabs view, on the dashboard or in the side panel, hover a tab row and click Rename tab, then type right there in the row. Enter saves, Esc cancels, and clearing the name brings the page’s own title back.
- On a saved tab inside a workspace, use the rename action on the tab’s row.
Names can be up to 120 characters, and renaming works on normal web pages, though not on Chrome’s internal pages.
Your custom name does three things worth knowing about.
It shows on the tab strip itself, so the browser tab’s label changes and you can tell your tabs apart at a glance. If the page tries to change its title back, your name wins.
It sticks. The name is saved with the workspace, so it comes back after a workspace switch, a browser restart, even an extension update.
And it protects the tab from clean-ups. Two same-address tabs you have renamed apart are treated as different tabs, so Close duplicates will not merge them, and search finds them by the names you gave them.
Move a tab to another workspace
Opened something in the wrong workspace? Drag it onto the right one. Hold ⌥ Option (Alt on Windows and Linux) as you let go to copy it instead of moving it, and undo the whole thing if you change your mind.
That is a subject of its own. See Moving tabs into workspaces.
The short version of the other routes:
- Right-click the page and choose eggz Tab Manager → Move tab to workspace, then pick one. The tab is saved there and closed here.
- Save without closing using the Save tab to a workspace shortcut (⌥D on a Mac, Alt+D on Windows and Linux). It opens a searchable picker, grouped by folder, with a green check on workspaces that already have this page.
- On the dashboard, press ⌘K (Ctrl+K) and type move or save.
Save for later, and close the tab
That article you will definitely read on the weekend does not need to sit on your tab strip until then. Right-click and choose eggz Tab Manager → Save for later & close tab.
The page is filed into your current workspace’s resources, which is its saved-links list (see Workspaces), and the tab closes. The clutter goes, the page stays.
When you want it back, open it from the workspace’s resources, or find it with search.
Close duplicate tabs in one click
Somehow you have the same page open three times. The Close duplicates button closes the extras across all your windows in one click.
You will find it in the Open Tabs view. On the dashboard it is the Close duplicates (3) button in the panel header, where the number is how many extras it found. In the side panel it is the matching button at the top of the pinned Open Tabs section. It only appears when there is actually something to close.
It is careful about which copy survives. The copy you are using wins, so a tab that is front-and-centre in any window is never closed. Pinned tabs are never closed either. Otherwise the most recently used copy is kept.
There are two more guard-rails. Tabs you have renamed apart do not count as duplicates, because your names mean those tabs are different on purpose. And only normal web pages are considered, so Chrome’s internal pages are left alone and private (incognito) windows are never touched.
Suspend a tab and free its memory
A suspended tab stays right where it is on your tab strip, title and icon and all, but its page is unloaded from memory, so your computer gets the RAM back. Click the tab and it reloads, like a normal refresh.
To suspend one tab, hover a tab row in the Open Tabs view and click Suspend tab — frees memory. The tab you are currently on cannot be suspended, since you are using it. Suspended tabs show a small suspended note on their row.
To do a whole window at once, each window’s header in the Open Tabs view has a Suspend others button. It puts every eligible background tab in that window to sleep, leaving just what you are working on awake.
Suspending follows the same safety rules as the automatic performance modes. The active tab, pinned tabs, tabs playing sound, and any site on your Protected domains list are always left alone. Set the automatic behaviour, Manual or Balanced or Aggressive, in Settings → Advanced → Performance & RAM.
“Already open”, the duplicate catcher
One more helper works before duplicates even pile up. Open a page you already have open and a small bar slides down from the top reading ”⚡ Already open”, with the existing tab’s name and two choices.
Switch to it jumps you to the tab you already had, and the extra copy closes. Keep both carries on, and the bar tucks itself away. It also disappears on its own after a few seconds. 
