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Is there a way to save sessions in Chrome? I'm a longtime Firefox user, and am used to being able to save a session containing multiple tabs so I can go back to it at any time. I'm trying to switch over to Chrome, but without this ability it's not going to happen.

I know that I can set the prefs to open the last-opened tabs at startup, but that's not really the same as true session management.

I'm perfectly happy to install an extension to do this if one exists.

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Session Buddy did the trick for me.

Manage Your Browser Sessions

  • View and save the state of all open browser tabs in the current or past browser sessions.
  • Quickly restore your tabs and resume your web surfing after a browser or system crash.
  • Edit the sessions you've saved and restore them into the desired set of windows at any time.
  • Create a session from a list of URLs and export sessions to text or CSV format.
  • Consolidate sessions and eliminate duplicate tabs with ease.
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  • Yes, while there are other session extensions, I swear by Session Buddy.
    – Synetech
    Jun 30, 2011 at 1:20
  • The Session Buddy link now seems to be broken, and searching the chrome web store for "session buddy" proved fruitless.
    – Keen
    Aug 28, 2014 at 12:09
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    The link works for me. Also try sessionbuddy.com
    – EmmyS
    Sep 2, 2014 at 14:53
  • Thanks for drawing my attention back to that. My guess is that the link was just temporarily down.
    – Keen
    Sep 15, 2014 at 14:19
  • Hey is there a way to restore your sessions in sessionbuddy if you cleared your cache/ internet files? Does it or google back up somewhere?
    – Hao S
    Jan 7, 2021 at 20:03
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A few options:

  1. Built-in functionality. Go to Options (Basics tab) and choose "reopen the pages that were open last".

  2. There are tons of extensions that allow you to do that

  3. I love the Panic Button addon. It's a bit different, but allows me to save my session when I want to:

    PanicButton makes it easier for you to hide all of your tabs at once just by clicking on a button. They are then saved as bookmarks in a separate folder. Afterwards, the PanicButton turns green and shows you how many tabs are currently hidden.

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    Note: I just did a quick search and it appears that Session Buddy looks promising. chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/…
    – Anonymous
    Jan 6, 2011 at 15:36
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    Thanks, Session Buddy looks like what I need; the built-in Chrome function only allows you to open the last-open tabs, not save tabs and reopen them at any time.
    – EmmyS
    Jan 6, 2011 at 16:12
  • Session Buddy currently fails to restore Tab Groups; Tabox does. Mar 24, 2023 at 19:07
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TabCloud saves your tabs "onto the cloud" so you won't lose them even if your laptop is broken.

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If you want to save, open, and view sessions using only your keyboard:

Ferro, the keyboard interface to Chrome

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  • Hmmmm it looks like it's very interesting
    – smonff
    Jul 28, 2014 at 20:19
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I use this Chrome app and it is very useful: Simple bookmark.

You can save the current session or the URLs – whatever you like – and open the session you want with a single click.

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I personally recommend Session Manager when people ask me this question.

You can save multiple sessions with labels, modify existing sessions, and create temporary sessions.

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