# Basic Tab Transfer

> Moves tabs between browsers with some manual copy-pasting involved.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/basic-tab-transfer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/basic-tab-transfer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `basic-tab-transfer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Ike918
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 3
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2024-12-11
- **First published:** 2024-12-11
- **Size:** 10 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/basic-tab-transfer/)

## Description

You can click Serialize to convert all open tabs into a string.

Copy this string into another browser with Basic Tab Transfer and click 'Deserialize and Open' to open all valid URLs.

## Rankings

- #52,162 — Overall
- #69 — transfer

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/basic-tab-transfer)