RolesTab Browser

RolesTab is a free, open-source desktop mini-browser for developers, QA engineers, product teams, and support teams who need to test the same web application as multiple user roles at the same time.

It focuses on role-based session isolation so teams can validate permissions, dashboards, and workflows without repeatedly logging out and back in. Key capabilities include:

• Isolated role sessions: Maps each role profile to a separate persistent Electron session partition, keeping cookies, localStorage, IndexedDB, cache, and authentication state isolated per role.
• Project workspaces: Creates projects for different applications, environments, or tasks, each with its own base URL and set of roles.
• Reusable role profiles: Defines roles such as Admin, Customer, Support, QA (or custom roles) and opens each role in its own isolated tab.
• Testing utilities: Restores recent tabs and visited URLs, provides session controls to clear one role or all sessions, supports JSON import/export for project configs, and includes developer controls like navigation, reload, copy URL, open in an external browser, and DevTools.

Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux via installers from GitHub Releases. It supports localhost URLs for local development testing, and stores project and session data locally with no account requirement.

It suits software development and QA teams, technical product teams, and customer support teams that need parallel multi-role testing for access control and multi-tenant scenarios.

Notable for African and global engineering teams, it offers a practical way to verify multi-role behavior on shared or low-resource devices without extra browser profiles, and its open-source GitHub distribution (releases, changelog, issues, license) makes evaluation and internal adoption straightforward.