What's New

The tabs you never got round to saving.

• Crash recovery. Cairn now quietly keeps track of what you have open. If the browser restarts and your tabs don’t come back — after a crash, a force-quit, or because Chrome isn’t set to reopen them — it offers them back next time you open it, including the ones you never saved as a workspace.
• It offers, it doesn’t barge in. Reopen everything, save it all as a workspace, or review the list and pick. Nothing reopens on its own; thirty tabs appearing unannounced would be worse than the problem.
• Tabs you close while you work are never offered back. Only ones that were open when the browser last shut down and didn’t return.
• It stays on your device. Never uploaded, never records incognito tabs, discarded after a week, and switchable off in Settings → Recover tabs after a crash.
• A new look. The panel is redesigned on warm sand surfaces, with four sections along the top: Overview, Workspaces, Tabs and Cleanup. Home is now Overview, and Browser is now Tabs.
• Every workspace gets its own tile in its colour, with its first letter or the icon you picked — the same on its card, at the top of its page, and in search.
• Overview says it plainly. What’s open in your browser, in sentences like “1 page is open twice”, with Review beside anything worth a look. A small ? beside Continue and Review explains what they will do.
• Light or dark in one click, from the button at the top of the panel. Until you pick, Cairn follows your system. The colour pickers in Settings are gone.

Cairn has a face now.

• A character who reads the room. The illustrated figure from Cairn’s videos now stands at the bottom of each tab, and his expression reflects what’s actually going on — hopeful before you’ve saved anything, unbothered when things are tidy, and visibly overwhelmed when the tabs pile up with nothing saved.
• He reacts to what you do. Save a workspace and you get a thumbs up. Something fails and he looks alarmed. Delete something and he stays out of it — that’s your call, not his.
• He follows your cursor. Quietly, and he looks away again when you stop moving.
• He never says a word, never blocks anything, and can be switched off in Settings → Show the Cairn character.

Choose exactly which tabs go into a workspace.

• Pick your tabs when saving. Saving a workspace used to take everything open. Now you can choose — keep All tabs, or switch to Choose tabs and tick just the ones you want, with select-all and clear. All tabs stays the default, so nothing changes unless you want it to.
• Works when updating, too. The same picker appears on Update workspace with current tabs, so you can refresh a workspace from part of your window instead of all of it.
• Live counts. The tab and group totals update as you tick, so you can see what you're about to save before you save it.
• Renamed. Cairn is now listed as “Cairn — Tab Manager, Workspaces & Session Saver” so it's findable by what it actually does. Same extension, same data — only the name on the store listing changed.

First public release.

• Workspaces. Save every open tab as a named workspace — tab groups, pinned state and order all preserved — then close everything and restore it in one click.
• Universal search. One search box across open tabs, saved workspaces, history, bookmarks and workspace notes.
• Notes. Each workspace carries its own notes, next to the tabs they're about.
• Cleanup. Finds duplicate and stale tabs and suggests groups from shared domains. Nothing closes or moves without you confirming it.
• Temporary tabs. Mark a tab to expire in an hour, today, tomorrow or a time you pick, and get a reminder instead of forgetting it in the pile.
• Optional AI. Ask a workspace to summarise itself or find themes across its tabs. Off by default, uses your own API key, and shows you exactly what would be sent before anything leaves your device.