Features
Built to move a whole toolbar at once
Z-Manager reads your installed extensions through the browser's management API, adds the metadata browsers refuse to store, and gives you one keyboard-driven surface for all of it.
The feature set
Everything in service of the switch
Profiles that actually switch
Build a group once, then activate it. Members turn on, everything outside the group turns off. Additive mode leaves the rest alone when you only want to add tools.
A popup built for the keyboard
Focus lands in the search field. Digits activate groups, arrows walk the list, space toggles. The mouse is optional.
Search and filter the whole shelf
Fuzzy search by name, then filter by enabled, disabled, sideloaded, or by a permission you care about.
Bulk actions without the dread
Enable all, disable all, disable all-but-this, invert the selection. Policy-installed extensions are shown as locked rather than silently skipped.
Permission audit per extension
Real permission warnings and host access straight from the browser, plus install provenance: store, sideloaded, developer or enterprise policy.
Details and deep links
Version, ID, description, options page, homepage and store listing. One click into the browser's own details page when you need the native controls.
Live status, never stale
Install, uninstall, enable and disable events from anywhere in the browser update the list instantly — including changes you made in chrome://extensions.
Back extensions up to your PC
Save any store-published extension as a real CRX or ZIP package, named after the extension, its version and its ID. Pick one from the popup or batch the whole shelf from the dashboard.
Backup and restore your setup
Export groups, tags and ordering as JSON. Import on another machine. Your configuration is yours, in a file you can read.
Honest limits
What no extension manager can do
Browsers deliberately sandbox extensions from one another. Any tool that claims these features is guessing, or shipping a native helper you did not ask for.
No per-extension CPU or RAM
Chrome shows this only in its internal task manager. There is no public API for it, in any browser. We would rather show nothing than invent a number.
No usage tracking of other extensions
One extension cannot observe another's clicks, network calls or storage. "Unused for 30 days" is always a guess, so we do not dress it up as data.
No native grouping
Browsers have no concept of an extension group. Groups are Z-Manager's own metadata plus scripted toggling — which is exactly why they are portable.
No copying another extension's files
Nothing can read the folder an installed extension lives in. Backups come from the Web Store package service, which is why sideloaded and development items export metadata only.
No off-store one-click install
Chrome refuses off-store packages, so the ZIP needs developer mode. Firefox add-ons must be signed by Mozilla to run on release builds.