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How to restore the window of tabs crashed 1 day ago in Google Chrome? if I have used another window of many tabs in Chrome for 1 day.

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If you run Chrome right after a crash, it will ask you if you want to restore your session and tabs. If you don’t click Restore, it won’t restore it. If you then close Chrome, the last session and tabs will be lost (they'll be replaced by the one that you had just before exiting).

Your best bet to avoid losing your tabs after a crash (and not having to go to the trouble of using the history) is to install a session-management extension. There are plenty to choose from, but my personal favorite (and recommendation) is Session Buddy. Among its features are that it is lightweight, easy to use, has the ability to import and export sessions, can manage tabs per-window, and best of all (particularly for this question), it can be set to auto-save the session in case of a crash.

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Thanks, just picked up Session Buddy. It auto backs up the session tabs nicely. Nothing like having seven tabs open and then a browser crash causing you to have to hunt down what you were looking up. (Probably was a flash problem that cleared with the next update) – Fiasco Labs Oct 23 '11 at 5:20
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I created a pure web-app that deals with the problem of session restore. (motivated by a recent computer crash, and this thread and the avoidance of extensions.)

The User interface is leaned on Chrome's own UI design.

Use as follows:

  1. Drag and drop the requested files from one of the 'user profile-folders' into Chrome-Session-Restore.
  2. Click on the small arrow in the bottom-bar to open a list of restorable tabs
  3. To open a session, set the number-input of the max number of tabs to restore and click on the top Icon of the opening tabs-menu, when clicking on the arrow.

Update per 30.05.2012:

*Favicons are shown;

*better instructions;

*directly copyable file-paths to the session files.

Here is more technical information and some background to restoring-sessions.

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The best technical explanation I've seen of Chrome's session saver files. Unfortunately the JavaScript application didn't do anything after I drag and dropped the Last Tabs files on the bottom bar. – dandv Jan 21 at 5:01
@dandv - Could you please tell me if any errors (red-text) occurred when you press CTRL+SHIFT+J in Chrome? Per se the UI doesn't give much feedback that the loading was successful. Try to click on the bar with the upwards arrow first. – Lo - lsauer.com May 3 at 6:54
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I don't think you can "Restore" them if you have opened Chrome and navigated to other sites since the crash. You could look into your History to see the site you visited just prior to your crash if they were saved in there and manually reopen them.

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Dear Nebru, I usually keep important tabs in that window. It were weeks ago I first open those pages and had been keeping them until yesterday. Even I look at the history, I can not find those tabs, because history in Chrome only has the tabs I opened in the last two days. – user51210 Feb 11 '11 at 1:09
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@user: That's incorrect. Chrome keeps history for far longer than two days. Mine goes back at least a week. I didn't bother to click back any longer. You have to click the "Older" hyperlink at the bottom of the page. – Cody Gray Feb 11 '11 at 4:57
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That's correct, unless you clear your history it'll keep history for months. You just have to surf back through the "older" links until you find your day. As an aside, have you considered using bookmarks to track your important tabs rather than just leaving it open for long periods of time? – Neberu Feb 11 '11 at 19:02
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@user51210

I had exactly the same problem and for exactly the same reason - I had opened the tabs probably two weeks before the crash. This article and associated tool saved me

http://xhr2.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/google-chrome-session-restore-web.html

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