# Tab Stash

> Easily save and organize batches of tabs as bookmarks. Clear your tabs, clear your mind. Only for Firefox.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `tab-stash`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Josh Berry
- **Category:** bookmarks,tabs
- **Daily users:** 40,753
- **Weekly downloads:** 453
- **Rating:** 4.60 / 5 (599 ratings)
- **Version:** 3.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-01-16
- **First published:** 2018-07-15
- **Size:** 338 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-stash/)
- **Website:** [https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/support.html](https://josh-berry.github.io/tab-stash/support.html)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-stash/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/tab-stash/privacy/)

## Description

Tab Stash is a no-fuss way to save and organize batches of tabs as bookmarks in Firefox. Sweep your browser clean with one click of the Tab Stash icon (if configured). Your open tabs are stashed away in your bookmarks, organized into groups, and you can restore just the tabs you want later.\n\nFeatures include:\n- Stash with the toolbar button or per-tab button\n- View stash in the Firefox sidebar, a popup, or a full-browser tab view\n- Restore individual tabs or whole groups with one click\n- Quick-search to find items\n- Organize into groups and sub-groups\n- Recover recently-deleted items\n- Drag and drop items to re-organize (multi-select supported)\n- Import and export your stash in rich text, Markdown, OneTab and more\n- Customize the behavior of the toolbar button\n- Dark mode\n- Firefox Sync across devices

## Rankings

- #361 — Overall
- #4 — Bookmarks
- #17 — Tabs
- #1 — organization
- #2 — organize
- #2 — stay

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `sessions`
- `tabs`
- `tabHide`
- `bookmarks`
- `contextMenus`
- `browserSettings`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`
- `contextualIdentities`
- `cookies`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very low 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 medium user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Users praise Tab Stash as a powerful, feature-rich tool that enhances bookmarks, and values its workflow benefits, stability of stashed items, and a clean, unobtrusive UI. The main negatives center on UX complexity andUI changes, occasional feature removals, reliability concerns with browser updates, and limitations like import/title scan issues and missing mobile/sync support.

### Pros

- Powerful, feature-rich extension that enhances Firefox bookmarks and supports sessions (suspend/resume) and flexible organization.
- Easy to use with a clean, unobtrusive UI that stays out of the way.
- Stashed tabs stay stable and can be renamed, preserving URLs while navigating.
- Excellent workflow integration and flexible organization (current work vs long-term storage, subfolders).
- Supports import/organization and exporting tab sets to share or reuse.

### Cons

- UX/UI can be confusing or cluttered, with a learning curve and updates making the UI busier.
- Some functionality has been removed or changed in updates (e.g., dragging stashed tabs to a different folder), reducing usability.
- Reliability risk: browser upgrades or Firefox changes can remove the extension or cause loss of stashed tabs.
- Import/title scanning after importing can be imperfect; a re-scan option would help refresh titles/headers.
- Lacks mobile support/sync across devices; wishlist item for cross-device use.

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