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Anchor tabs to their URL, rename them, and protect them from accidental navigation or closing. # 🔒 Tab Anchor > A browser extension that anchors a tab to its current URL — protecting it from accidental navigation, accidental closing, and unwanted title changes. Inspired by the workspace tab-locking feature that Microsoft Edge included up to version 143. **Compatible with Chrome, Edge, and Firefox (109+).** --- ## ✨ Features at a glance | | Feature | Summary | |---|---|---| | 🔐 | **Hard lock** | Blocks all navigation away from the locked URL; a banner lets you stay or unlock and go | | 🔓 | **Soft lock** | Navigation is allowed, but a floating chip keeps a one-click shortcut back to the pinned URL | | 🛡️ | **Tab close protection** | Closed hard-locked tabs are automatically reopened and re-locked | | ✏️ | **Tab rename** | Assign a persistent custom title that survives page loads and navigation | | 🌐 | **Favicon badge** | A gold lock badge is composited onto the tab's favicon while locked | | 📋 | **Lock history** | Every session is logged with URL, title, custom name, group, mode, and timestamps | | 📤 | **Import / Export** | Back up and restore history as JSON; merges by entry ID, no duplicates | | 🗂️ | **Tab group awareness** | Group name and colour are recorded; the tab is restored to its group if closed | | 🎨 | **Theming** | History and settings page supports System, Light, and Dark themes | | 🖱️ | **Context menu** | All actions available by right-clicking the extension icon or tab strip | --- v1.0.6 ------------ - Add option to open multiple links from history. - While import, sync history as per tabs status in current browser. - Added option to set behavior on link clicks on a hard locked tab. - Links are clickable now in history. - Fixed chip text on pinned URL in soft locked tabs. - Fixed tabs being closed in soft lock. - Fixed favicon lock icon not visible in some cases. v1.0.7 ------------ - Fixed an issue where hardlocked tabs were also reloading when open links in new tab was set.