Save and restore a Chrome window?

[ashune]

Is there a way to "save" and restore a Chrome window with all the tabs that were open in it? You can restore a windows with tabs when Chrome closes unexpectedly, but can you do the same when you close it manually without Chrome crashing? I'm talking about desktop Chrome (on Windows and ChromeOS).

 

[mustang7757]

Go back in your history?

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[ashune]

Go back in your history?

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That won't work, as it would require to hunt down every single tab, with other tabs I previously closed burying some of them further down. Firefox does have a "Restore previous session" feature that achieves what I want to do in Chrome. Also, if I remember correctly, when you close a Firefox window with multiple tabs, it also has a history entry for the whole window (with all the tabs that were open at the time it was closed) which can be restored with a single click.

 

[mustang7757]

That won't work, as it would require to hunt down every single tab, with other tabs I previously closed burying some of them further down. Firefox does have a "Restore previous session" feature that achieves what I want to do in Chrome. Also, if I remember correctly, when you close a Firefox window with multiple tabs, it also has a history entry for the whole window (with all the tabs that were open at the time it was closed) which can be restored with a single click.

Let me see maybe @B. Diddy might know

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[B. Diddy]

Ctrl-Shift-T should work.

 

[ashune]

Ctrl-Shift-T should work.

Oh that does work, thought it only works for tabs. Thanks! Hope it also works with a reboot between closing and restoring.

 

[B. Diddy]

Oh that does work, thought it only works for tabs. Thanks! Hope it also works with a reboot between closing and restoring.

I haven't tried it after a reboot yet, but I doubt it'll work, since I think that might be cleared out of memory.

When I closed Chrome entirely on my Pixelbook, and then immediately did the Ctrl-Shift-T, Chrome opened up with all of the previous tabs as before (I thought that was what you were asking about).

 

[ashune]

I haven't tried it after a reboot yet, but I doubt it'll work, since I think that might be cleared out of memory.

When I closed Chrome entirely on my Pixelbook, and then immediately did the Ctrl-Shift-T, Chrome opened up with all of the previous tabs as before (I thought that was what you were asking about).

Thanks for the reply. I did also install an extension (Tabs Backup & Restore) to back up my tabs. It works well, with the only downside being that it ungroups all tabs if they were in tab groups.

 

[ashune]

This new Saved desks feature in ChromeOS 107 might just be what I was looking for. Does anyone know if it also restores all Chrome tabs? Haven't updated my ChromeOS yet.

https://www.androidcentral.com/chromebooks-laptops/chromeos-107-update

 

[ashune]

To anyone else wondering, yes it does restore every window, tab, and open app. Though note that some unsaved page content (like forms, etc.) might be discarded.