Tabs Backup & Restore

With 'Tabs Backup & Restore' you will never lose your work again! Backup an entire Chrome session (windows and tabs).

Total ratings

4.14 (Rating count: 305)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Has been reliable for recovering tabs after Chrome crashes
  • Easy to use interface, useful for managing tabs
  • Provides peace of mind during browser updates or crashes
  • Can set backup options at regular intervals for convenience
  • Has saved users multiple times from losing important tabs
Cons
  • Does not save or restore tab groups properly
  • Can crash the browser when attempting to restore
  • Limited functionality with Incognito mode and local file tabs
  • Tends to only save recent history, making it less useful for long-term tab recovery
  • Lacks the ability to differentiate backup titles, making it hard to find specific backups
Most mentioned
  • Fails to restore tabs with local files or PDFs
  • Inconsistent performance when restoring multiple windows
  • Suggested improvements include better tab group management and backup title organization
  • Users report issues with restoring Incognito tabs
  • Has a limit to the history it retains, causing loss of older tab data
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User reviews

Recent rating average: 3.10
All time rating average: 4.14
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Date Author Rating Lang Comment
2025-01-20
William Mayhew		 en I am not sure why you want to remove this app. I have been using it for at least 5 years and find it extremely useful, never any issues...it works. While I understand it is simple in offering, it is what I need. Looking at other options, while the functions may be impressive, they are somewhat complicated and more than I need. "Tabs Backup and Restore" does what I need. It's simplicity and ease of use is ideal. Try to keep it available.
2025-01-12
Kevin Wood		 en Has worked well enough - recovering my hundreds of pages in a dozen windows when, a couple timea a year it seems, Chrome crashes (usually during/after an update) and doesn't reopen all the pages. Biggest complaint (request for improvement) is that it save Tab Groups along with all the pages and then reopen each window with all the pages grouped in the (also saved) tabs. Also, would be great if it would reopen a window with all but one page, or at least one page per tab group, "hibernated" (or whatever it's called when it's there but not loaded). Opening and loading a hundred pages at once kinda chokes the computer - making most everything non-responsive as it takes a very long time.
2024-12-07
Veeresh Devireddy		 en Very useful extension, but can you please add option to save Incognito Window's tabs also?
2024-06-05
Artemi Lebedev		 en Can't export( Where are the backups themselves located?
2024-02-02
Denis Roger		 en You will lose all your tabs. Do NOT trust this useless extension. You click restore and it does nothing.
2024-05-15
Piotr Ficner		 pl Fajne rozszerzenie, ale niestety w momencie kiedy zrestartowałem komputer to restore nie działa na wszystkie okna, tylko na jedno, próbowałem advanced restore i nic. Klikam przywróć ale nie otwiera tego okna.
2024-03-13
Jefferson Pena		 pt Desde um mês atrás, parou de funcionar. Antes era excelente. Não encontrei outra extensão igual.
2024-03-06
Badr Elmers		 en this extension is dead, there is a new fork that solved all the problems and added excellent new options here https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/vapiers-tabs-backup/maonpfakiajhbgnapbpaipaidkpppfmj
2024-02-27
Flippa_da_Boss		 en I recommend setting the backup options to every 4hrs, easier to manage your backups this way.
2023-01-05
Derek Antrican		 en WARNING: this will fail to restore a tab if it is pointing to a local file (eg if you have a PDF open in your browser) and that may also cause THE ENTIRE WINDOW TO FAIL TO RESTORE. Fortunately, you can use the "Advanced Restore" option to go to that Window, select all tabs, then unselect the tab for the local file. Then you can restore the window without that tab. Otherwise this extension works great and provides great peace of mind though Windows Updates, browser updates, or other issues that might cause you to lose your open tabs.
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