diff --git a/toolchains/arduino/org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui/plugin.xml b/toolchains/arduino/org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui/plugin.xml
index 7eeccf5664a..724bd86a919 100644
--- a/toolchains/arduino/org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui/plugin.xml
+++ b/toolchains/arduino/org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui/plugin.xml
@@ -122,4 +122,12 @@
             type="org.eclipse.remote.core.IRemoteConnection">
       </propertyTester>
    </extension>
+   <extension
+         point="org.eclipse.debug.ui.launchConfigurationTabGroups">
+      <launchConfigurationTabGroup
+            class="org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui.internal.launch.ArduinoLaunchConfigurationTabGroup"
+            id="org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui.launchConfigurationTabGroup"
+            type="org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.core.launchConfigurationType">
+      </launchConfigurationTabGroup>
+   </extension>
 </plugin>
diff --git a/toolchains/arduino/org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/arduino/ui/internal/launch/ArduinoLaunchConfigurationTabGroup.java b/toolchains/arduino/org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/arduino/ui/internal/launch/ArduinoLaunchConfigurationTabGroup.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4dad04b5658
--- /dev/null
+++ b/toolchains/arduino/org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui/src/org/eclipse/cdt/arduino/ui/internal/launch/ArduinoLaunchConfigurationTabGroup.java
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+/*******************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (c) 2015 QNX Software Systems and others.
+ * All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
+ * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0
+ * which accompanies this distribution, and is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
+ *
+ * Contributors:
+ *     QNX Software Systems - Initial API and implementation
+ *******************************************************************************/
+package org.eclipse.cdt.arduino.ui.internal.launch;
+
+import org.eclipse.debug.ui.AbstractLaunchConfigurationTabGroup;
+import org.eclipse.debug.ui.ILaunchConfigurationDialog;
+import org.eclipse.debug.ui.ILaunchConfigurationTab;
+
+public class ArduinoLaunchConfigurationTabGroup extends AbstractLaunchConfigurationTabGroup {
+
+	@Override
+	public void createTabs(ILaunchConfigurationDialog dialog, String mode) {
+		setTabs(new ILaunchConfigurationTab[0]);
+	}
+
+}