Everything you need to know about saving and managing your browser tabs
Click the Tab Session Manager icon in your browser toolbar and click "Save Session". All your open tabs will be saved instantly. You can also use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+S (Cmd+Shift+S on Mac) for quick saving. This is the easiest way to save all your Chrome tabs at once.
Open Tab Session Manager, find the session you want to restore, and click the restore button. You can restore all tabs at once in the current window or a new window. You can also click on individual tabs to open them one by one.
Yes! Click on the tabs you want to save in the Tab Session Manager popup to select them, then click "Save Selected". This is perfect when you only want to save specific tabs from your current session.
All your saved sessions are stored locally on your computer using Chrome's built-in storage. Your data never leaves your device and is completely private. No cloud servers, no accounts, no tracking.
Yes! Tab Session Manager fully supports Chrome tab groups. When you save a session, it preserves your tab group names, colors, and organization. When you restore the session, your tab groups are recreated exactly as they were.
Chrome tab groups help you organize related tabs together. If you're working on multiple projects, tab groups keep everything organized. Tab Session Manager ensures you don't lose this organization when saving and restoring sessions.
Currently, when you restore a session with tab groups, the groups are automatically recreated. Individual tab restore opens tabs without groups, which is useful when you just need a specific page.
Yes! Tab Session Manager offers similar functionality to OneTab with additional features:
You can export your OneTab list as a text file and manually recreate sessions in Tab Session Manager. We're working on a direct import feature for a future update.
Tab Session Manager focuses on simplicity and reliability. Unlike Session Buddy (stuck on old architecture) or The Great Suspender (removed for security issues), Tab Session Manager is built on modern Chrome standards with privacy as a priority.
The free version allows up to 20 saved sessions. This is enough for most users. If you need unlimited sessions, you can upgrade to Pro for $29/year or $4/month.
Yes! Click on the session name to rename it. Give your sessions descriptive names like "Work Project", "Research", or "Shopping" to find them easily later.
Use the search bar at the top of the Tab Session Manager popup. It searches both session names and individual tab titles/URLs, making it easy to find that specific page you saved weeks ago.
Yes! Create folders to organize your sessions by project, topic, or any category that makes sense for you. Drag sessions into folders or assign them when saving.
Each Chrome tab typically uses 50-150MB of RAM. If you have 30 tabs open, that's potentially 1.5-4.5GB of memory. By saving and closing tabs with Tab Session Manager, you can significantly improve your computer's performance.
Yes! The extension tracks and displays your estimated memory savings. It's satisfying to see how much RAM you've recovered by saving and closing unused tabs.
That's up to you. You can enable "Close tabs after saving" in settings for automatic cleanup, or manually close tabs when you want. Closing tabs frees memory immediately.
Absolutely. Tab Session Manager is built with privacy-first principles:
Tab Session Manager requires minimal permissions:
We request only the permissions necessary for core functionality.
Yes! You can export all your sessions as a JSON file from the settings page. This backup file can be imported on another computer or kept as a backup.
After installing, click the puzzle piece icon in Chrome's toolbar, find Tab Session Manager, and click the pin icon to add it to your toolbar for easy access.
Some URLs (like chrome:// pages or other extension pages) cannot be restored by Chrome extensions for security reasons. These are automatically filtered when saving. Regular web pages should always restore correctly.
If you have many saved sessions, the extension might take a moment to load. Try archiving old sessions you no longer need, or upgrade to Pro for optimized performance with large numbers of sessions.