SEARCH HISTORY AND TABS TOGETHER
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is already findable.
You know you read it. You just don't know if the tab is still open. GoToTab searches your open tabs and your browser history in one list, from one keystroke — free, on every plan.
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HOW HISTORY SEARCH WORKS
Stop guessing whether the tab is still open
Press your shortcut and type. Open tabs come first, then matching pages from your history, in the same list and the same keyboard flow. Arrow down through both, hit Enter, and you're there — switching to a tab or reopening a page, whichever it turns out to be.
- 1Press ⌘⇧K (or Ctrl+Shift+K) and type a few letters
- 2Open tabs match first, then pages from your browser history
- 3Arrow keys run straight through both sections
- 4Enter switches to the tab, or reopens the page
Your history is read on your device, not ours
History search needs the browser's history permission, and that's worth being straight about: it reads your history locally, at the moment you type, to rank what to show you. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored on our side, and there's a switch in Settings to turn it off entirely.
- 1Your history is read on the device you're using, as you type
- 2It is never sent to our servers and we keep no copy
- 3Turn it off any time in Settings — search falls back to open tabs
- 4We never read the contents of the pages you visit
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Reach the tab you closed on your other computer
Local history search covers the machine you're on, which is usually all you need. Pro extends the reach: GoToTab keeps a record of the tabs you close in your account, so a tab you shut on your laptop is findable from your desktop, marked so you can see where it came from.
- 1Go Pro and GoToTab records the tabs you close, in your account
- 2Search from any signed-in device and those results appear too
- 3Synced results are badged, so you know why they're there
- 4Clear the record any time from Settings or your account page
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- Unlimited collections, saved on this device
- Search your browser history alongside open tabs
- Export your collections any time
- Save a whole session in one click (or /save)
- Light & dark themes, keyboard-first everything
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Questions about history search
Press ⌘⇧K (Ctrl+Shift+K on Windows and Linux) and start typing. GoToTab searches your open tabs and your browser history at once and shows both in one list, so you don't have to decide up front whether the page is still open.
Yes, on every plan and without an account. Searching your own browser history is free, along with tab search, switching, unlimited collections, tab groups, and slash commands. Pro adds the tabs you closed on your other devices.
Because including your history in search results means reading your history — there's no way around that. It is read locally on your device, at the moment you type, purely to decide what to show you. It is never transmitted to us and we keep no copy. If you'd rather not, the switch in Settings turns it off and search covers your open tabs only.
No. Local history search never sends anything anywhere. Separately, if you're on Pro, GoToTab records the tabs you close (title, URL, close time) in your account so you can reopen them from another device — that's a focused log of tabs you had open, it's optional, and you can clear it whenever you like.
Ninety days. Beyond that it's rarely what you're reaching for, and an unbounded search gets slow on a heavy profile.
No — anything already open appears once, as a tab. Offering to reopen a page you're currently looking at is just noise, so history results skip whatever is already in your tab list.
Stop hunting for that one tab.
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