Tab Guardian version history - 12 versions
Tab Guardian by Serhii
Tab Guardian version history - 12 versions
Be careful with old versions! These versions are displayed for testing and reference purposes.You should always use the latest version of an add-on.
Latest version
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 here
button. - 🐛 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:home
Firefox'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
Older versions
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 2
confirmation modals with custom popup for consistency. - 🧑💻 Removed
sweetalert2
dependency. - 🧑💻 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
.json
extension, 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:blank
andabout:privatebrowsing
will be automatically closed #64 - 🧑💻 Remove
Import
buttom 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
6
characters #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-GCM
with 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 + k
tocontrol+command+k
on 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