# Tab Sessions

> Save the tabs of a window as a named session and reopen it later, in order, with pinned tabs and containers intact. Sessions reopen as unloaded tabs, so a thirty-tab window costs one page load, not thirty.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/tab-sessions1](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tab-sessions1)

## Overview

- **ID:** `tab-sessions1`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Krzysztof Bogdan
- **Category:** tabs
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 1.0
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-05
- **First published:** 2026-09-02
- **Size:** 35 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-sessions1/)

## Description

<strong>Save a window. Close it. Get it back exactly as it was.</strong>

Tab Sessions turns the tabs of a window into a named, coloured <em>session</em>: tab order, titles, URLs, pinned tabs and the container each tab was opened in. One click in the toolbar reopens the session as a fresh window.

<strong>Reopening is cheap.</strong> Tabs come back unloaded, showing their saved title and favicon, and only fetch the page when you click one. A session of thirty tabs opens in about a second and does not hammer thirty sites at once. Pinned tabs are the exception: those load right away, because they are the ones you keep open.

<strong>Containers are remembered properly.</strong> A session stores the name of each tab's container as well as its id, so a session saved before you rebuilt a container, or on another machine entirely, still puts the tab back where it belongs. If the container is genuinely gone, the tab simply opens without one. This add-on never creates or changes containers behind your back.

<strong>What it is good for</strong>
<ul><li>Park a research window, a client project or a bug hunt, close it, and come back to it next week.</li><li>Keep a <strong>Morning</strong> session of the pages you open every day, and a <strong>Deep work</strong> session of the ones you do not want to see.</li><li>Split a window that has grown to forty tabs into two sessions, and stop keeping them open just because you might lose them.</li><li>Move a working set to another machine: sessions ride Firefox Sync.</li></ul>
<strong>Editing a session</strong>

The settings page lists your sessions, reorders them, and opens any of them for editing: rename it, recolour it, reorder its tabs, fix a URL or a title, pin or unpin a tab, change its container, or drop tabs you no longer want. A live size readout tells you how much of Firefox Sync's per-item limit the session uses, before you hit it rather than after.

<strong>Sessions are snapshots, on purpose.</strong> Opening one and then changing that window never writes back, so a session you saved is still there tomorrow. When you want the new arrangement, save it as a session of its own.

<strong>Worth knowing before you install.</strong> Pages an extension cannot reopen, such as about:config, view-source: and other add-ons' pages, are left out when you save, and the popup tells you which. Firefox Sync caps a single item at 8 KB, which works out at roughly 55 tabs per session; larger windows are refused with a message rather than saved incomplete. Sessions record the tab list only, not scroll position, form contents or history.

<strong>Privacy:</strong> nothing leaves your browser. Sessions live in Firefox sync storage, there is no server of ours, no analytics and no telemetry.

## Rankings

- #114,145 — Overall
- #158 — session

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `contextualIdentities`
- `cookies`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/tab-sessions1)