New Tabs at End

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New tabs go to the end. Everything else stays put.

A Chrome extension that moves the tabs you open — Ctrl+T, links, bookmarks — to the end of the window, and leaves restored tabs and your tab groups exactly where Chrome puts them.

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Chrome 102 or later · English and Português

Why another one

Other “new tabs last” extensions move too much.

They push every tab Chrome creates to the end — including the ones it is bringing back. Reopen the browser with “Continue where you left off” and your groups come apart. Bring a tab back with Ctrl+Shift+T and it lands at the end instead of where it was.

A typical extension, after a restart

A group’s first tab is recreated outside it, and the extension pushes it to the end. The group is now a tab short, and its first tab sits in the wrong place.

New Tabs at End, after a restart

Restored tabs are recognised and left alone. Your window comes back exactly as you left it — groups, order and all.

How it works

Only the tabs you open are moved.

Everything Chrome brings back stays where Chrome puts it.

Goes to the end

A tab you just asked for.

  • Ctrl+T or the + button
  • A link opened in a new tabMiddle click, Ctrl+click, links that open a new tab, window.open
  • A bookmark opened in a new tab
  • Alt+Enter in the address bar
  • A link opened from another application

Stays where it is

A tab Chrome is bringing back.

  • Reopening the browser with a saved session
  • Ctrl+Shift+T on a tab or a window
  • Duplicating a tabIt stays next to the original.

How it tells them apart. A tab Chrome restores is created already knowing its address; a tab you open is not. One check, at the moment the tab is created: no delays, no waiting, no visible jump. Read the evidence.

Features

Does one thing. Lets you fine-tune it.

Your groups, your call

A link opened from a grouped tab can go to the end of the window (the default) or to the end of its group. Pick in the options.

One key fixes one tab

Alt+Shift+G moves the last placed tab to the other place — even while it is still in the background.

Speaks your language

The options are in English and Brazilian Portuguese, following your browser.

Small and quiet

No popup, no badge, no toolbar button. It does its one job and stays out of your way.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your browser.

The extension asks for three permissions and uses each for one thing. It never reads the pages you visit and never talks to a server. Read the privacy policy.

tabs

To notice when a tab is created and move it. Chrome warns that this permission can “read your browsing history”, because it exposes the address of each tab. The extension only checks whether a new tab’s address is still empty — it never stores or sends an address.

tabGroups

To keep a link in its group, or take it out, as your setting says.

storage

To remember your placement setting and the last tab it placed. The setting is synced by Chrome across your devices; the last tab is forgotten when the browser closes.

No data collectedNothing about you or your tabs is gathered, sold or shared.
No network requestsNo analytics, no ads, no remote code.
Every line is publicRead the source and the reasoning behind each decision on GitHub.
Fully tested100% test coverage, checked on every change.
Install

Ready when you are.

Chrome Web Store

Add to Chrome

The one-click install, with automatic updates. Works in Chrome 102 or later.

From source

Needs Node 26.

git clone https://github.com/bvicenzo/new-tabs-at-end
cd new-tabs-at-end
npm install
npm run build
  1. Open chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.
  2. Click Load unpacked and pick the dist/ folder.
Questions

Good to know.

Where are the options?

Right-click the extension in Chrome’s extensions menu and choose Options, or open chrome://extensions, then Details and Extension options.

The shortcut does nothing.

Chrome leaves it unassigned when another extension already uses Alt+Shift+G. The options page shows the current shortcut and takes you to chrome://extensions/shortcuts to change it. It also does nothing when the last placed tab was opened outside a group, since there is no group to send it back to.

Why isn’t a duplicated tab moved?

Chrome creates a duplicate the way it restores a tab, so it stays next to the original — usually right where you want it.

What about tabs opened by other extensions?

They count as new and go to the end, like the ones you open yourself.

Does it work in Edge, Brave or other Chromium browsers?

It relies only on Chromium’s standard tab APIs, so it should. It is developed and tested on Chrome and Chromium.

Is it really free?

Yes. No paid tier, no ads, no data collection. It was made to scratch an itch, and it is shared in case you have the same one.