# Save Tabs - Browser Session Manager

> A password protected tab saver extension to store tabs in the current window, or all windows

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/save-browser-tabs](https://chrome-stats.com/d/save-browser-tabs)

## Overview

- **ID:** `save-browser-tabs`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** emano waldeck
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 549
- **Weekly downloads:** 12
- **Rating:** 3.25 / 5 (24 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.3.4
- **Last updated:** 2025-11-01
- **First published:** 2018-06-03
- **Size:** 92 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/save-browser-tabs/)
- **Website:** [https://add0n.com/save-tabs.html](https://add0n.com/save-tabs.html)

## Description

Save Tabs is a powerful Chrome extension designed to manage your browser sessions with enhanced security. It lets you save tabs from the current or multiple windows and restore them later, freeing up memory by closing saved tabs.

The extension supports password protection, encrypting your tab data with SHA-256 to ensure privacy. Features include saving window dimensions, incognito states, pinned tabs, and tab groupings. It syncs stored sessions across devices and allows editing or updating sessions. With keyboard shortcuts, you can customize session restoration behaviors. Save Tabs streamlines tab management, offering a secure and flexible browser session manager experience.

## Rankings

- #4,741 — Overall
- #7 — password-protected
- #22 — session
- #47 — mission
- #63 — browser tab
- #82 — browser

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `notifications`
- `contextMenus`
- `tabGroups`
- `downloads`
- `favicon`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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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## Review summary

Users like Save Tabs for its simplicity and ability to save and reopen tab groups, including normal, pinned, and container tabs, plus private windows and optional password protection. However, reliability is a major complaint: saved sessions can disappear after restore, password handling is buggy, and exporting or selectively restoring sessions is limited or broken. Additional issues include UI glitches, instability with large tab counts, and a risky erase-on-restore default. Overall, the idea is strong, but the extension is frequently unstable for many users.

### Pros

- Simple, lightweight and easy to use for saving/restoring tab groups.
- Supports normal, pinned, and container tabs (with sorting/reordering).
- Private windows support and password protection for saved sessions.
- Uses built-in sync API and has a small footprint.
- Saves and reopens groups (apps) easily after a restart.

### Cons

- Restored sessions can disappear or be unrecoverable, hurting reliability.
- Password protection is buggy or unresponsive (may not accept correct passwords).
- Export/backup options are limited or broken (JSON export fails; no per-session export).
- Not a true manager; cannot selectively edit or restore individual saved lists.
- Erase-on-restore is risky by default (requires holding Shift) and may cause data loss.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/save-browser-tabs)