Tab Session Manager

Name: Tab Session Manager
Rating: 3.571045576407507 (373 reviews)
Author: Sienori

By: Sienori

Save and restore the state of windows and tabs. It also supports automatic saving.

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Tab Session Manager is a powerful Chrome extension designed to help you save and restore the state of your browser windows and tabs effortlessly. With features like session naming, tagging, auto-save when closing windows, and regular interval auto-save, it ensures your browsing workflow is always preserved.

The extension supports switching between workspaces, importing and exporting sessions, and offers compatibility with Firefox, Edge, and Chrome. It also includes cloud sync to save sessions to Google Drive and synchronize across devices. Additional functionalities include support for tab groups, import of Session Buddy files, and efficient session management with features like tracking sessions that auto-update with window changes.

Regularly updated, Tab Session Manager ensures compatibility with the latest browser versions and adds user-friendly features like search and sorting options, dark mode, undo/redo of session operations, and customizable keyboard shortcuts. Ideal for users who multitask across many tabs, this extension streamlines session management and enhances productivity.

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By:

Sienori

Users:

100,000

Rating:

3.57

(373) 3 new ratings

Version:

7.1.0 Last updated: 2025-03-19

Creation date:

2020-06-27

Risk:

Permissions:

storage
unlimitedStorage
tabs
downloads
identity
alarms
offscreen

Size:

734.00KB

Email:

si*****@gmail.com

Full description:

Source:

Chrome Web Store

Data ingested on:

2025-07-19

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Ranking

# 1,681 ▼ 4

Other rankings

#11 in Functionality & UI

#3 in session keyword 48

#6 in tabs backup & restore keyword 13

#7 in restore tabs keyword 17 ▼ 1

#14 in auto save keyword 7 ▼ 4

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Other platforms

Tab Session Manager (v7.1.1)

147,088 4.20

(1,158)

Tab Session Manager (v7.1.0)

65,337 3.90

(57)

User reviews

Users appreciate Tab Session Manager's ability to save and restore numerous tabs and sessions, including cloud sync across devices, which significantly aids productivity and data recovery. However, several users report critical issues like unexpected loss of saved sessions, unreliable tab group restoration, and problems with syncing sessions, sometimes leading to permanent data loss. The extension occasionally becomes unresponsive or causes errors when disabling. Despite its powerful features and customization, the UI/UX is considered poor by some. Overall, it is effective but might risk data integrity and usability for some users.

Pros

Effectively saves and restores tabs, helping users recover from browser crashes.
Supports syncing saved sessions across devices using Google Drive or cloud sync.
Offers useful features like undo and manual session export as backup.
Supports managing a large number of tabs and sessions, saving users time.
Highly functional and customizable compared to other session managers, with multiple settings and options.

Cons

Frequent loss or deletion of saved sessions, sometimes without user notification, causing data loss.
Issues with tab groups not being saved or restored properly, leading to confusion and duplicated groups.
Extension becoming unresponsive or unusable in some browsers, including removal issues or errors upon disabling.
Sync feature sometimes fails to properly sync or update sessions across devices.
Poor user interface and experience, making management and recovery difficult.

Recent reviews

I do not recommend adding it because all windows are deleted and this problem has not been solved for years.

Ah*****, 2025-07-19

It has many features... but lacks the most important one: it saves open sessions as new ones, not updates them in the list!! Still cannot find a replacement for the old good Sync Tab Groups........ :'( This one is NOT.

Na*****, 2025-07-16

THE WORST. Why: because your extension deletes all the groups, and you don't even notify the users about this issue! What happens is that we save our session hoping that we will have it again, with the groups (obviously). And you do not explain this before people press that 'save' button and close their browser. So what will happen when you reopen the browser again? Exactly! You'll have your big session with groups lost! Of course, because we all have time for reorganising it all, right? And you don't even have to inform the users of the issue of losing it, right? To be honest, this app doesn't even deserve 1 star. This thing isn't what should be called 'a session saver', because it simply does not save the session whole (which includes the groups too).

jD*****, 2025-07-14

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Extension safety

Risk impact

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Tab Session Manager requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk impact analysis details

Critical Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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Risk likelihood

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Tab Session Manager has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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