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How to Restore Tabs & Save Tab Groups In Google Chrome

Usually when Google Chrome crashes, it gives you a restore tabs option when you open the browser again. However, there could be other occasions when you need to restore tabs or save a group of open tabs, so that all your work is available when you open the browser next time.

This article discusses the following two ways to restore tabs and save tab groups in chrome.

  1. Google Chrome’s inbuilt option to reopen the pages that were open last.
  2. Session Manager extension.


Using the Google Chrome Options

Google Chrome comes with lots of handy features. Reopen last open pages is one of them. Here’s how to set that option in your browser settings.

Click on Tools menu tools.

Click on Options.

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Under “Basic” tab, select “Reopen the pages that were open last” option. Click the close button.

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Next time when you restart your browser you will notice that all the last open tabs will reopen.

Google Chrome Session Manager Extension

This extension provides a powerful way to save all your browsing sessions and reopen them anytime you need. This is particularly useful to those who research with lots of tabs open in different browser windows. It can help them save their tab groups separately under different names. It is much quicker and a better solution to bookmarking those pages (unless you need them permanently).

Session manager is simple to use. Once installed, it shows a small icon on the Chrome extension bar. If you click on it, it pops up a small session box asking you to save the current session. Give a name to session and press save button. That’s it. Simple and easy.

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Now you can close all the tabs and get back to your work. If you want to open all your saved tabs once again just click on session icon and open the required session.

You’ll notice that each session displays number of tabs, number of windows and date of creation of session.

Why would you need it?

  • If you are researching on different topics and there are lots of tabs open, you can create sessions and revisit the tabs whenever you need them.
  • You can create sessions for most important sites which you check daily.

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Written By and published on Monday, February 15th, 2010.


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  • http://blueseed.co/faq.html dandv

    If Chrome crashes, the only reliable way to restore *all* tabs, including text you were typing in form fields, is to exit Chrome, go to its user data directory, and copy the files ‘Last Tabs” and “Last Session” to “Current Tabs” and “Current Session”.

    More details here: http://xhr2.blogspot.com/2011/10/google-chrome-session-restore-web.html

    • Michael Scott

      And you expect us mortals to be able to make heads or tails of the following in order to restore our Previously Open Tabs???:

      Entropy of the file ‘Last Session’(1062045 By) is: 00,48
      The total length is: 1062045 By; Accumulative entropy is: 00,48
      Shannon Index of the data(1062045By) is: 02,68
      Shannon’s equitability (EH) is:00,55
      The maximum segmental-entropy (17700By) is: 0,5388829

      0,50 | ▓▓
      0,45 | ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓▓▓ ▓ ▓▓▓
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      0,35 | ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
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      0,20 | ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
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      0,10 | ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
      0,05 | ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
      0,00 | ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
      ——————————————————————
      0% 16% 33% 50% 66% 83%

      Personally…..I’ll just start pecking my way through my History!
      But, thanks, anyway.

  • Michael Scott

    This is wonderful…….for the future……unfortunately, I need a way to restore NOW. You know, now……..BEFORE I click on the button in “options” and/or BEFORE I download the session manager extension.
    Are you telling me there IS NO WAY to restore a session? (unless you were clairvoyant enough to KNOW you were gonna crash….and therefore turned on the “Reopen the pages that were open last” command in Options………or downloaded/installed the Session Manager Extension ahead of time?)

    • http://www.guidingtech.com Abhijeet Mukherjee

      Here’s a solution Michael: Open Chrome and look for “Recently Closed” in the bottom right of the new tab page. Clicking on it will show up links to all the sites which were open before crash and you could click on them one by one to open them. A bit painful yes, but gets the job done.

      However, if it was a sudden Chrome crash then when you re-open it you should see a “restore last session” pop up at the top regardless of whether or not you had the reopen pages that were open last option selected (make sure though that you select it now). This only happens for sudden crashes and not for accidentally closed sessions.

      Hope that helps.

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