# Restart Browser

> Allows to restart the browser with a button.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/restart\_browser](https://chrome-stats.com/d/restart_browser)

## Overview

- **ID:** `restart_browser`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Nacho Vázquez
- **Category:** tabs,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 524
- **Weekly downloads:** 9
- **Rating:** 2.19 / 5 (67 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.3
- **Last updated:** 2019-08-06
- **First published:** 2019-04-06
- **Size:** 94 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/restart_browser/)
- **Website:** [https://www.timerestart.ga/](https://www.timerestart.ga/)

## Description

**Restart Browser** is a powerful Chrome extension that allows users to quickly restart their browser with just one button. Beyond a simple restart, it offers advanced session management features, letting you record up to 10 sessions of your windows and tabs, choose from 5 different restart methods, and leave tabs 'sleeping' until activated to save resources.

This extension also helps free up memory and CPU, making your browsing faster and more efficient. Options include automatic session recording, manual session saves, importing/exporting settings, and opening specific webpages on restart. A premium method integrates with an auxiliary Windows app for a complete browser reboot. Available in 11 languages, "Restart Browser" is designed for convenience, stability, and improved workflow for all users.

## Rankings

- #4,872 — Overall
- #22 — browser
- #22 — start page
- #39 — browser tab
- #39 — chrome browser
- #51 — rest

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `notifications`
- `webNavigation`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `nativeMessaging`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
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## Review summary

Most reviewers report inconsistent restart behavior: often nothing happens, restarts fail, or tab/session states are lost or changed. Several note UX issues, including no obvious toolbar button and reliance on the options page. Privacy concerns arise due to many permissions, and some reviews mention donation prompts on startup or after updates. A minority report usable restarts and tab memory when configured. Overall, the core restart function is controversial with reliability and usability varying across reviews.

### Pros

- Provides a restart feature for Firefox (core function).
- Can remember/open tabs or session after restart in some setups.
- Can provide a restart button on the toolbar after setup for easier use (reported by some users).

### Cons

- Unreliable restart behavior: in many reviews it either does nothing, closes unexpectedly, or otherwise fails to restart.
- Tabs/sessions can be lost or altered after restart; not consistently restoring the previous state.
- Poor UX/UI: lack of a clear, always-visible toolbar button; often requires use of the options page or is otherwise non-intuitive.
- Privacy/permissions concerns: the extension asks many permissions, raising trust issues.
- Donations/prompts on startup or updates: intrusive pages or donation prompts from the addon authors during use.

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