tab-burrow

Privacy Policy

Effective date: 2026-06-07

Tab Burrow is a Chrome extension that archives stale tabs into the extension’s local storage before closing them. This policy explains what browsing metadata the extension handles and how it is protected.

Data the extension stores

Tab Burrow stores only the metadata needed to restore archived tabs:

• Tab URL
• Tab title
• Favicon URL
• Last viewed time reported by Chrome
• Archive time
• Original tab/window/index metadata when useful for restore context
• Restore timestamp when a tab is restored
• Local search-index tokens derived from the archived tab title, URL, and hostname (stored on-device only, to power archive search)
• A summary of the most recent cleanup run (counts of tabs scanned, archived, and closed; no tab URLs or titles)

Data the extension does not collect

Tab Burrow does not collect or store:

• Page body text
• Form inputs
• Cookies
• Screenshots
• Passwords
• Browsing history outside the archived tab records
• Analytics identifiers

Local-only storage

Archived tab records are stored in chrome.storage.local on the user’s device. Tab Burrow does not send tab URLs, titles, or archive records to any external server.

Network and telemetry

Tab Burrow does not use analytics, telemetry, remote logging, remote configuration, or external tracking services.

Permissions

Tab Burrow requests the following Chrome permissions for the MVP:

• tabs: to read tab URL/title/favicon metadata, determine whether a tab is stale, and close tabs after they have been archived.
• storage: to save settings and archive records locally.
• alarms: to support opt-in scheduled cleanup.
• unlimitedStorage: to let the local archive grow beyond Chrome’s default local-storage quota for long-running use, paired with user-configurable retention limits and user-controlled deletion. It is never used to store page content or unrelated browsing data.

Tab Burrow does not request broad host permissions for the MVP.

User control

Users can restore archived tabs, delete archived records, configure excluded domains, and keep scheduled cleanup disabled unless they explicitly enable it.

Contact

For privacy questions or issue reports, open an issue at the project’s GitHub repository: https://github.com/cat-and-rabbit/tab-burrow/issues.

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