# How to send a browser tab to a TV

> Canonical HTML: https://screenrig.ai/guides/send-a-tab-to-a-tv

To send a browser tab to a TV, install the screenRIG extension for Chrome or Firefox, open the page, click the icon and pick a screen. The TV opens the page itself, full screen, until you click the icon again.

Updated October 31, 2026.

## Send a tab in four steps

1. **Pair the TV once.** Put the screenRIG Player on the TV, or open the web Player in its browser, and read the code it shows to your agent. [Start](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md) walks through it.
2. **Install the extension** from the Chrome Web Store or Firefox Add-ons. Edge, Brave and Arc use the Chrome listing. It signs in with your dashboard session, so there is no token to copy.
3. **Open the page and click the icon.** The popup lists your online screens, folders and tags. Tick one or several and press Send.
4. **Click the icon again to stop.** The TV goes back to what it was showing. A share also ends on its own after the time you chose, 24 hours at most.

![The screenRIG popup open on a café menu page in the browser, listing five screens, with the same menu showing full screen on a TV beside it](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/guides-send-tab-menu-d8d37aa4.webp)
*The popup lists your online screens. The TV opens the same page itself.*

## It is not casting

| | Casting a tab | Sending a tab with screenRIG |
| --- | --- | --- |
| What the TV shows | A stream of your computer's tab | The page itself, loaded by the TV |
| Your computer | Has to keep running | Can close the tab or sleep |
| Screens | One device at a time | One screen, several, a folder or a tag |
| After you stop | The cast ends | The screen returns to its schedule or playlist |

## Pick one screen, many or a whole folder

Tick any mix of screens, folders and tags. A folder takes in the folders inside it, and a tag takes in every screen that carries it. Screens that are offline show the page when they come back. The popup lists any screen it skipped, with the reason.

![The popup with two screens ticked, a Send button reading Send (3), and a clinic welcome page on the TV](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/guides-send-tab-pick-49f52fe7.webp)
*Tick several and they all take over at once.*

## Rotate several tabs and keep a dashboard fresh

Open **Options** to send this tab, the tabs you selected or every tab in the window, up to 20 pages. The screen shows each page for 10 seconds to 5 minutes and starts again. Auto-refresh reloads the pages every minute to every hour, a QR code lets people open the page on their phone, and the share runs for 1 hour, until the end of the day or 24 hours.

![The popup's Options open: tabs, time per page, auto-refresh, share length, Include my sign-in and a QR code, beside a sales dashboard on the TV](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/guides-send-tab-options-f9364c1d.webp)
*Options: rotate tabs, refresh, share length, sign-in and a QR code.*

## Show a page you are signed in to

Turn on **Include my sign-in** and the extension sends your browser's cookies for the pages you share, after you allow each site. A dashboard you are signed in to shows signed in on the screen. The cookies stay with the share and are removed when it ends. A site can end a session used from another device, and then the screen shows its sign-in page.

## See what the screen shows

After you send, the popup shows a screenshot of the first screen with a refresh button. It also warns when a page refuses to be embedded, before you rely on it.

![The popup after sending: a confirmation, a screenshot of the screen showing a Now serving queue board, and Stop sharing and Send again buttons](https://screenrig.ai/static-resources/images/screenshots/landing/guides-send-tab-stop-a11bc0d5.webp)
*The ON badge on the icon, and a screenshot of what the screen is showing.*

## What people put on a screen

- Tonight's menu on the bar TV.
- The weekend sale page on the shop-window screen.
- A KPI dashboard on the office wall, refreshed every few minutes.
- A welcome page with a QR code in the lobby.
- The wait-time board in a clinic.
- A few status pages in turn on the operations screen.

## What to know

| Player | A page that refuses to be embedded | Include my sign-in |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Android TV and Google TV, Amazon Signage Stick, Linux, Raspberry Pi, Windows | Shows the page | The page shows signed in |
| Web Player, Mac, Samsung Tizen, LG webOS, BrightSign | A blocked icon | The page shows signed out |
| Apple TV | Takes no web pages | Takes no web pages |

- The TV loads the address itself, so it shows public pages and pages its network can reach.
- Project owners and members who can approve changes can send. Screens in a protected folder cannot be sent to.
- Sending again replaces the share before it.

Prefer to ask your agent? It can put an address on a screen too, as in [Display a website on a TV 24/7](https://screenrig.ai/guides/website-on-tv-24-7.md). screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more.

**Next:** the [extension reference](https://screenrig.ai/docs/browser-extension.md) lists every option, permission and answer.

## Related

- [Send a Tab to TV or Digital Signage: Browser Extension](https://screenrig.ai/docs/browser-extension.md): Send a browser tab to a TV or signage screen in one click with the screenRIG add-on for Chrome and Firefox. screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more.
- [Display a Website on a TV 24/7](https://screenrig.ai/guides/website-on-tv-24-7.md): Ask your AI agent to put a website on a TV all day and switch the screen off at night. screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more.
- [Show a Dashboard on a TV Screen](https://screenrig.ai/guides/dashboard-on-tv.md): Ask your AI agent to put your key numbers on a TV. If a number stops updating, the screen drops it. screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more.
- [Supported Players and Setup](https://screenrig.ai/docs/players.md): Install the screenRIG Player on your screen, pair it with your agent, and compare content types, streams and device controls by platform.
- [Quickstart: Digital Signage with Your AI Agent](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md): screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more. Install the official plugin with your AI agent, then pair a Player and publish your first screen.

[Start free](https://screenrig.ai/docs/start.md). screenRIG is free. Pay only if you want more.