THETAB TEAM

14 articles, 124 sources published

Editorial team, TheTab

We build TheTab, a browser extension that saves your open tabs so you can close them without losing them. Everything on this blog is written by the same small team that writes the extension.

That is worth stating plainly rather than hiding behind a byline, because it cuts both ways. We spend our working days on tab management, browser storage limits and extension permissions, so we know the subject in detail. We also make one of the products in the category, which gives us an interest in how the category is described.

The way we deal with that is process rather than promises. Every factual claim on this blog is traceable to a source you can open, our own product is disclosed as ours every time it appears, and the parts of the process that can be enforced by a machine are enforced by one.

HOW WE WRITE THIS

Primary sources only
Claims are traced to the organisation that made them - Google's own documentation for Chrome behaviour, Mozilla's release notes for Firefox, the published paper for a research finding. We do not cite blog posts summarising a source when the source itself is public, and we never cite ourselves as evidence for a fact.
Every source is published
Articles carry a reference list at the end, and each entry names the specific claim it supports rather than sitting there as decoration. If you think we have read a source wrong, you can check it in one click.
The build enforces it
A check runs before the site can be deployed. An article with no sources fails it, a source we cannot categorise fails it, and citing this domain as evidence for a factual claim fails it. Articles that legitimately need no sources have to say so explicitly rather than pass by omission.
Corrections are dated, not silent
When an article changes materially it gets an updated date shown at the top of the page, and the change is described in the text rather than edited in quietly. Where we removed a figure because we could no longer stand behind it, the article says that we removed it.
No invented numbers, no AI-generated imagery
Statistics are quoted from a named source or they are not published. Diagrams, screenshots and cards are generated from the real extension and from real data by scripts in this repository, so a screenshot of the product is a screenshot of the product.
Photography is licensed, and it is only decoration
The photographs on this site - hero backgrounds like the one on this page - are stock photography licensed through Envato Elements. They are used as decoration, never as evidence: no photo on this site depicts our team, our office, or a test we ran.

DISCLOSURE We make TheTab. Any article comparing tab managers is written by a competitor of the other tools in it, and says so where it names them. Sponsored placements are labelled as sponsored and their links are marked accordingly.

EVERYTHING WE HAVE PUBLISHED

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