How to Save All Open Tabs in Chrome (and Find Them Again)

Saving all your tabs is easy. Finding one of them in three months is the hard part. Here are the five ways that work in Chrome today, ranked by what happens after you close the window.

1. Bookmark all tabs (built in)

Press Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows or Cmd+Shift+D on a Mac. Chrome asks for a folder name and saves every tab in the window as bookmarks in that folder.

• Good: nothing to install, syncs with your Google account.
• Bad: you get a folder of URLs. No page text, no summary, and search only matches titles and URLs. Most of these folders are never opened again.

2. Saved tab groups (built in)

Right-click a tab, choose Add tab to group, and name the group. Saved groups appear at the left of the bookmarks bar, and you can close the group and reopen it later. Recent Chrome versions save groups automatically; older ones have a Save group toggle when you right-click the group name.

• Good: fast, visual, made for one project at a time.
• Bad: a handful of groups is fine; fifty is a second tab strip. Same title-only search.

3. Continue where you left off (built in)

In Settings → On startup, choose Continue where you left off. Chrome reopens your tabs after a restart.

• Good: protects against crashes and restarts.
• Bad: this is the opposite of closing tabs. The pile comes back every morning.

4. OneTab or Toby (extensions)

OneTab collapses every tab into one list page with a click. It is free, needs no account, and frees memory. You restore one tab or all of them later. Search is your browser's find on titles.

Toby replaces the new tab page with collections of tab cards you drag around. Free up to 60 saved tabs; paid plans add unlimited tabs and advanced search.

• Good: both are better than bookmark folders for parking tabs.
• Bad: neither keeps what the pages said. You find things by remembering the title or where you put them. Compared in detail: Markwise vs OneTab, Markwise vs Toby.

5. Markwise Focus Sessions (extension)

Install the Markwise extension and press Option+Shift+S (Alt+Shift+S on Windows) to save the window as a Focus Session. Close the window.

What you get back:

• A session with a generated title and summary, tabs grouped by topic.

• The important pages, up to ten per session, saved as bookmarks with their text extracted and indexed.

• Search that finds those pages by what they said. Pro searches by meaning and lets you ask Copilot questions with cited answers.

• One click to reopen the whole session, or one group.

• Good: the only option here where "the pricing page with the usage tiers" finds the page.

• Bad: needs an account. The free plan holds 50 bookmarks; asking and meaning search are Pro. Every tab's URL is kept, but full text is kept only for the pages saved as bookmarks.

Which one to use

• You restart a lot and want tabs back: Continue where you left off.
• One project, a few days: a saved tab group.
• Free, private, no account, restore by scrolling: OneTab.
• Tabs you want to see daily, maybe with a team: Toby.
• Tabs you want to close and still find by content, or ask about, months later: a Markwise Focus Session.

If you are not sure how bad your tab habit is, the tab overload calculator puts a number on it. Then pick the window you have been avoiding and save it. For the reasoning behind closing tabs at all, read Close your tabs. Your AI remembers them.