Reviews & Comments of Tabs Backup & Restore chrome extension

It doesn't always work with Vivaldi browser, specialty with tabs stack .

This extension is very useful. But it's kind of difficult to determine which backup I want to restore because there is no title aside from the timestamp. Maybe one field is enough for us to input the title, so we don't get lost if we want to find a specific backup that we want to restore. I guess that's only the missing ability of this extension; otherwise, it would be a 5-star already.

Perfect for restoring crashed chrome or when default tab history gets corrupted

Sadly, like most Tab extensions, Tabs Backup & Restore fails to deliver on what it claims. For example, it is limited to `only' recent history. As a result of using, I had to pianstakingly go through my Chrome history to restore many tabs that Tabs Backup & Restore failed to store. Tabs Backup & Restore is severely crippled by its failure to record tab/window history, since it `only' stores 1 or 2 days worth.

Works great! The only thing I wish is that manual backups wouldn't be deleted after a certain period of time (or at least: would have a MUCH longer lifespan - like 3 months). I created a manual backup, then restarted my browser and delayed restoring the backup. After a day or two I realized that my manual backup had been deleted to make way for the new automatic backups.

Wow! FINALLY A SINGLE TAB CHROME EXTENSION THAT RESTORES AND SAVES SESSIONS WHEN CHROME CRASH DOESN'T RETURN THEM. BRAVO. One time this extension was not turned on for me some how though, so I did lose mass browsing history in that instance.

Excellent backup solution. Just make sure to set backups to 80 and timing to at least 10 minutes otherwise it might not go back far enough. Should be able to hold more than 80 though. UPDATE 10/28/2022 Does not support chromes new Tab Groups feature. Making this extension useless if you use that, which I do. Please update the extension.

Totally let me down as did not do the job, I expected, of restoring individual windows with their 20-100+ tabs.

only restores URLs, not actual sessions. does not save Workspace info. incapable for dealing with large-ish tab sets of (~1000 tabs in 200 windows). waste of time!

Do NOT trust this. Only work for recently closed pages. I Lost 119 tabs because back up didn't work and simply disappeared.

This does not restore tabs, just opens new tab with saved URL (you lose the pages Back button goes to on the tabs.) Useless for many tabs (if you close a window with many tabs and use Recently Closed to open it, everything is fine. If you use this extension then ALL tabs want to be loaded in memory which makes Chrome and sometimes the entire system hang.)

This is a great app I use it not just for immediate backups but also to keep collections of tabs I want to re-open later on. I just wish there was a setting that allowed the tabs to be opened full screen instead of the reduced size. Thats super minor compared to how good it is otherwise. I do wish you could name the backups however.

It doesn't do things write. Or the thing , because it only has to to one thing and it doesnt do it. I open let's say 10 tabs in incognito mode, I allow it to work in incognito mode, i save the tabs manually close incognito, open it again, and it restores the tabs in normal chrome not incognito. well, what is the point to allow it in incognito, if it doesnt open the tabs in incognito ? what a joke of an extension

for me I tested all ways of crashing and closing the browser. I tried to kill tree process, shutdown the computer. delete the browser from task manager, sign out from windows, I tried all the ways that may close the browser suddenly and causes you to loose your opened tabs, and I found that this extension is the best, It survived last opened tabs in all browser crash cases. I strongly suggest this extension to you. And strongly thanks to the developer, you made something Wonderful. ?

It does not have 80 backups but like 16. I choose in the setup options 80 backups, but it does stop earlier and delete automatically older backups. Otherwise great app. Thanks.

The only thing I would like to see are the tabs backed up to google drive or somewhere. My computer crashed and there was no way to restore despite having this extensions installed.

This is very useful tool to back up and to restore Tabs (strips) of any browser!    Such extension is the best of tools to save (backup) and to reload (restore) an entire session (windows and tabs) of Chrome-based browsers.    With this extension «Tabs Backup and Restore» you can save your work (session)! Це - дуже корисний інструмент для створення резервних копій та відновлення вкладок (смужок / Tabs) будь -якого браузера! Це розширення є найкращий інструмент для збереження (резервного копіювання) та перезавантаження (відновлення) всього сеансу (вікон та вкладок) браузерів на базі Chrome. За допомогою цього розширення «Резервне копіювання та відновлення вкладок» ("Tabs Backup and Restore") ви можете не втратити свою роботу (зберегти свій сеанс)! https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-backup-restore/dehocbglhkaogiljpihicakmlockmlgd/reviews  https://www.droidahead.com

I rarely use the app and when I need to use it the back ups disappear. I have scheduled the back ups and all the other stuff your supposed to do but suddenly all the back ups data is lost and no chance of recovery at all. I installed this for a reliable alternative to what I had been using before.

How difficult can it be to keep and restore tabs? This is, yet again, another app that I've tried that works good in theory. It keeps track of tabs. However, restoring them is a hassle. When I try to restore a previous session I get the "ahmkjjgdligadogjedmnogbpbcpofeeo is blockedRequests to the server have been blocked by an extension." error and cannot access any of my tabs.

it does it's job sometimes. it needs more options. An import/export option. Recent backups are overwritten. i have backups from 2017 with the FreshStart - Cross Browser Session Manager and Session Buddy extension.

It would have been better than Chrome's built-in "Bookmark all tabs" if tab groups could be backed up too!

Been Using 1 Year. It has worked for me every time. Since I regularly go down rabbit holes, while also working on huge spreadsheets that like to crash my computer, this is very helpful.

Please PLEASE Please! can you please change the thing that when you update the extension, it won't restore the settings to default? I had 400 tabs and now I cant restore them at anyway because of that:(

Absolutely amazing extension,helped me save over 200 open tabs ! The auto save feature is amazing

This works to restore recent backups only. The auto feature backs up very often and there is a limited number of backups - which would be ok if it did not overwrite manual backups also once it reaches its limit. That was a really bad surprise for me as it did not have a clear warning about that. I lost an important set of tabs I worked with just because I did not need to use them for a week over the holidays. I saved them manually and never found them after about a week...

A must have feature in my opinion that is currently LACKING, and causing me to lose some open tabs is the ability to 'pin' a given backup in such a way that it is not overridden anymore by the automatic backups (ie, it doesn't count toward the max backup limit). This would be particularly useful for manual backups, which in my opinion by default should never be overridden by automatic backups. Hopefully the developer reads these comments

This extension has saved my tabs many times. One suggestion, can you add backup/restore of tab groups as well. Restoring pinned tabs into a pinned state would be nice too.

My computer crashes twice in a row often. PC crashes once and twice before i can "restore closed tabs". This extension has been perfect for me. No more searching for hours through the chrome history to find all my tabs. Cons: This extension also reloads all tabs. All 86 of my tabs were opened and reloaded, which then started to play every single youtube video nearly crashing my computer a 3rd time and I have a I5 16GB pc. At least I dont have to worry about data loss.

Just love this app. Hope someone can keep supporting it for the new browsers.

the extension crashed and all my data was gone

The only extension I could find which can restore tabs my multiple tabs & windows when googles crashes but when it restores it opens all the tabs at the same time, for example all my YouTube tabs open and start playing at the same time causing cpu to be on 100% load and pc really slow down. Please fix that developers. Then this will be perfect!

Extremely useful app..magnificient...can have one more feature of pinning(setting aside) a particular backup so as not to erase it from memory.

It is August 2020 and I'm still using it. This has saved me countless hours of having to go through my history and restarting tabs. Thank you! One thing - would be great if PINS could be restored as well.

Worked great at first but lately absolutely fails to backup my tabs, which is ESPECIALLY frustrating when Chrome itself offers the option to restore my tabs, and then proceeds not to when I tell it "yes". WHY?! This is supposed to be the BEST RATED app for tab backup and restoration, is it not? You need to be better. Get off your keisters and fix the bugs.

it's working nice, but we've often lost backups because they were deleted after max. 80 Days. Sometimes, we're searching for older data. The number of days should be a Textbox which accepts any number.

So close to great, but GARBAGE. "With Tabs Backup & Restore you will never lose your work again!" is what the author claims but I've lost over 100 tabs FIVE TIMES NOW. I just lost 145. Sound like fun to you? The preferences occasionally reset to defaults, reducing the number of saved images and if Chrome restarts after a crash and you're not around to catch it you can easily wind up with all your saved images being a single default tab. Few pieces of software are this aggravating. It's like any completely failed backup software... worthless for real protection. They could fix this and make it great software by simply NOT AUTOMATICALLY DELETING YOUR MANUALLY SAVED BACKUPS. ARG!!! FACEPALM!!!!

ok so i, like many ppl, was fed up with session buddy secretly lowering the number of times it saved your sessions. so i looked for a replacement and WOW where has this extension been all my life it is HANDS DOWN the best tab restore extension by far. You can choose how many times you want it to save your sessions from once every couple min to once every couple of hours AND you can choose how many sessions up to like 80 or some amount that is plenty. I can guarantee this is a hands down a better extension than the popular session buddy and in every way possible this extension is just what i was looking for. The one minor negative for me is that it is a little tough to know what session you had to re-open it since you cant go into it before and preview the sites or even name the backups but it does give a time it was backed up which helps enough to where i can get the session i want in 1 or 2 tries max.

I almost died. Saved my life today.

Love it! Works great!

Life saver. I can't imagine having a browser without this extension. I never worry about losing any of my tabs. Should be standard in web browsers.

Very nice, but if you are restoring lots of tabs (in my case ~400 tabs in over 50 windows) chrome will get stuck and not load all the tabs, even after sitting an hour. Please add an optional delay to stagger tab restores so that it has a chance to finish loading them (if I load them ~40 at a time manually, everything loads successfully in a half hour or so)

Saves your tabs methodically, reliably. It has saved and successfully restored sessions as big as almost 200 tabs! Genius!

Not good at all it's always broken and not working, does not hold my last tabs puts up tabs from a different time.

This is by far the best extension for Chrome, and I'm not exaggerating. I Loved this Extension! The feature to have your Chrome session backed up every 1-2 hours and settings a maximum amount of backups means your browsing research is safely backed up and doesn't require any maintenance. The best part is this Extension is Free of cost. Thanks team "Tabs Backup & Restore" to create this extension. I'll Refers this to all my connections. Thanks Once Again

Great product Use it all the time

★★★★★

Works fine for me.

While this works like a charm on any other device, it seems to be unable to save tabs on any Chromebooks that I have tried it on. for anything else it would work, but it seems unfortunately Chromebooks can't really use this.

On occasion, sometimes by accident, and sometimes inadvertently, I've lost a whole window full of tabs. Tabs backup & restore has saved me more then once by continually monitoring and taking 'snapshot' backups of my open tabs and windows. This is an excellent extension to save your bacon on such occasions. For improvement, I would like to have the ability to: 1. Rename and save backup sessions. 2. Choose which tabs I want to keep and which I want to delete in a session. Reference Session Buddy. That extension allows to keep / maintain (pin) backups and delete tab items. Thank you.

Great app! What I miss are just some options, like why do I have to store 10 backups at minimum? Why not 2 or maybe 5? Please add these to the <select>'s that would be awesome!

I'm in love! This extension saved me!!

Very useful

Of the times i've needed it, it only "worked" once... not realising i'd lost a bunch of tabs all at once, the 5min/30backups (default) sort of messed me up. Now fair enough its a default, but realistically, thats only 2.5hrs of backups so if you dont notice straight away, your out of luck. It would have really saved my life if it had snapshotted daily and kept that for a year (as well as its normal backup) - given my current 30 backups are taking about 150k, another 365backups would only have added another couple of meg... pity

I just clicked on the chrome notifcation setting on win 10 settings . It opened chrome settings only in settings therby loosing my all tabs fortunately had this app running. restored all . The fact that it runs in the background is great. You don't need to think about backups. Just there when needed...love it

it's a very useful addon, but it's sad that we can not define just one backup per day and that it should keep 400 backups.

just what i was looking for!

Love this app. It's great. BUT... I saved my tabs (lots of them) before I installed a new computer and now I can't find my tabs after syncing my Google account. Any idea where are the tabs saved? Thanks.

Absolutely PERFECT

I created a manual backup before shutting down chrome and restarting my laptop. It showed that backup created successfully. But when I restarted, the backup was gone. All my tabs gone. Also, my laptop was on for the whole day, it is not showing any backup at all. I have it set to create backup every 5 mins.

dipshit, lost all my windows because of automatic saving... wheres other days idiot.. I dont need 20 backups of one day, I need also at least previous day or 2

finally what i looked for

Did not perform the function I wanted. The extension only recovers the top layer of the tab, not any of the tab history. The app works very slowly and nearly crashed my computer. While it was able to recover some of my lost work, much was lost.

Automatic backups overwrite your manual backup and will cause you to lose everything. It was great for restarts, but useless when I really needed it.

Does what its supposed to will not restore what was lost but will stop it from happening in future. If you could possible ad that feature you would be a GOD!

1: Keeps resetting to Auto Backup every 5 mins & 2: Maximum number of backups = 30 3: Default:150 mins=2.5Hrs is in sufficient if PC gets corrupted and the operating system for example Win10 have to be reinstalled - completely useless. 4: SAVE:should permanently save the settings and NOT keep reverting back to the useless default value that loses all the tabs. 5: Prefer:1Hr backed up 80 time=80 Hrs=3 days & 8 Hrs or 6:2 Hrs backed up 80 times =160 Hrs = 6 days & 16 Hrs 7: 5 & 6 will be less because of additional manual back ups that I would make. Too Lazy to edit my messsage just posted on OneTab: Therefore, any person using OneTab should also use Tabs Backup and Restore. One Tab & Tabs Backup & Restore both work perfectly well until they crash (Tabs disappears) and have to restart from scratch! It is even more annoying when the authors won't fix the relatively easy bugs'/faults' problems. 1: It should be possible to create backups which are stored on a different drive than the drive, which the operating system is stored on. For example if Windows 10 (Win10) is saved on the C:\ (C drive) than I should be able to save One Tab on a path on the D:\ or E:\ etcetera. This means that when and NOT if One Tab gets corrupted then after for example reinstalling Win10 I could then reinstall the backup file. Another method of looking at the problem is when I use CCleaner I always create a backup of the registry. 2: Tabs Backup & Restore keeps on sooner or later reverting back to the default of a few mins (think 5 mins) with a backup limit of 30, 2.5 hours. This means that by the time realize that there is a problem the original OneTabs have been permanently deleted! At the moment I prefer back-up = 1 hour with 80 backups that gives me 80 Hrs = just over 3 days to notice the problem and restore back-ups before they are permanently deleted. But it is about time that the authors solved the relatively simple problem instead of people falsely claiming that Tabs don't disappear if the settings are correctly set.

Seems to work as intended. But it doesn't allow me to save the backup anywhere than drive C, and that's the only reason I need it -- as protection against lost tabs in case I have to restore an earlier drive image.

I had no idea it deleted backups once it had 30 of them, and it's default is to back up every 5 minutes. So I lost all my work that I now have to spend time going to find

A must have if you have 300-500 tabs on Chrome like I do! Saved me many times.

This is really good, I've been using Vivaldi browser but lost many tabs because of crashes and bugs. This extension has saved my material many times, thanks.

Good product. Works well & easy to use: intuitive!

Wow. This applet is kinda awesome. I lost a session that had someclose to 20 tabs and the windows just vanished. No crash report, nothing. Tried checking the trashbin, no closed tabs list. I was livid, chrome in all forms is notorious for this and the sessions manager is poorly done at best. I lost my tabs due to something going wrong and the current windows I was working on vanished, while the second window was untouched still playing youtube videos. This applet pulled the lost windows tabs up eve tho the windows vanished before I even installed the applet.

Awesome extension for automatic back up of all opened tabs.

COntrol, Control ! Complete control over your many tabs ! Another chance to choose and clean things up as you go. Thank You guys. Looks like a winner to me!!!

This is by far the best extension for Chrome, and I'm not exaggerating. The feature to have your Chrome session backed up every 5-10 minutes and settings a maximum amount of backups means your browsing research is safely backed up and doesn't require any maintenance. Just install, configure, and let it be. When the worst happens, then just bring this extension up for the rescue. I love it!

Incredible. Why can't every session backup program save your tabs every X minutes?

I use it every time I turn on any of my computers. This not only saves me when there is a crash but it allows me to continue what I was doing when I closed out of the browser. This has been on my computer since it has came out.

it lost all my data after windows recovery :(

Would be even better if it also saved if a tab was pinned.

The concept and function are very good, I've been using this for about 6 months. However, I've recently started experiencing severe browser performance problems. I eventually traced it to this extension. It caused periodic high CPU usage by the browser process during which the entire browser would severely lag or lock up altogether. I'll be moving on.

Saved me so many times because Chromium always screws up. Feature Request: it would be nice to have a cloud backup of the list somehow. I don't want to sync everything to my Google account as such but rather have a list in my Google Drive or Keep or something else.

Just started using it. Looks like just what I need to restore all tabs AND all WINDOWS after closing down Chrome totally. Before I used the trick of just killing all Chrome processes - where Chrome offer to restore all. I think Chrome should offer this every time it starts, not only the last window with focus. A couple of features wanted: 1) Please add option: EXEMPT all MANUAL backups from auto-delete when the number of backups maxes out. Also I would like more than 80 backups as a max. 2) Please add option: Restore PINNED tabs as pinned.

Lost all my tabs

Immediately got my session restored so for now I have no complaints whatsoever.

Couldn't find a way to bulk delete backups. Else it is perfect !

The backup doesn't work at all.

excellent session manager/backup/restore extension. I have used SessionBuddy for years and it is also great but it is nice to see some other options like this extension provides!

Simple and exactly hat I was looking for.

It's very helpful to keep my session in order, in case chrome crashes or my computer crashes or etc. the only issue is that I want it to save to a txt or xml file or something so I can bring my sessions from computer to computer...... then again, chrome already does that anyway.

Wished I had it B4 my History got deleted by No One!!!

Does it's job quit well.

This little chrome extension has saved me more times than I can count. I'm a tab-head, and I can sleep at night because this extension exists. Seriously. I'm super thankful for it. Oh, and it does a great job doing what it's supposed to do, simply and reliably. Two thumbs up.

Pretty good does what it adverts. No frills. Does not maintain pins (actually unpins). Have to open a frame and say no to Chrome restore function before this kicks in.

Very helpful, but please add "pin" state restore! Every time I restore using this plugin, it forgets about the pins and I have to repin. A minor pain, but have to do it once a week and repin 8 tabs each time. Thank you!

Great app!!! Highly recommended

I would appreciate if after restore it would allow back button,but it not allow or show such button this was the draw back or disaster please make this feature enable or recode for this

Composing a draft post in Tumblr that had taken me some time, which I lost when I shut down the wrong window by mistake. Looked through all the back-ups and all the extension did was take me back to the 'new post' page on Tumblr. None of the draft copy I'd laboured over was to be found. The worst part is that Lazarus does not work in Tumblr, so I couldn't even retrieve my content that way. FAIL

best

Great product

Great app. only issue i have is if its set to only hold xx amount of backups, if you go over your set amount, it deletes the "manual" backups as well. the manuals SHOULD be excempt fron the deletion process unless manually deleted. other than that i have no problems. Also the ability to copy the settings/backups to transfer to another computer should be an option

Perfect app, EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED. Great for when you want to close Chrome and have loads of windows and tabs you want to reopen when you reopen chrome. Saves all your tabs and windows automatically, or at the click of a button, and can open them all simultaneously at the click of a button. Also great for reopening groups of tabs you recently closed, as it backs up multiple days if you set it to. Also great for if Chrome crashes or its closed unexpectedly, or your computer lost power, and Chrome didn't offer to restore all the tabs you were expecting when you reopened it. The main thing is that you can close chrome manually yourself an be sure you dont have to remember all the tabs you have, or that you might loose them when you try to reopen. I cant believe Chrome haven't built this into their own browser yet, I think I.e. and firefox do sometimes when you close them, but again i never trust that it will, and it usually only works when it crashes, especially in Chrome anyway. No need to end the task with task manager anymore, and hope i kill the one process of many that closes them all in one go. LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT. P.s. Recommendation/tip to designer if reading this, if it doesnt do it already, you could add a feature that it will auto prompt you do you want to backup the session if you ever try to manually close Chrome, just so you dont have to remember to go and do it manually. Also telling us where it stores these backups would be nice, and whether anyone else can read them if they had access to the backup files. Great app though.

I like the auto save function, but would like to be able to manually save and RENAME windows that would be kept permanently.

We should note that Chrome itself tries to perform this function and fails badly. I've come to think no extension can do this well. I've tried several extensions for this purpose, and find they all suck. This particular one may suck a bit less. Nonetheless, with a graceful shutdown of the Chrome browser (or a crash), this extension always thinks I had only 1 window with 1 blank open when I shutdown the web browser. I resort to restoring older backups, but they are usually a day older and don't include more recent tabs, which I try to retrieve from history. Nice try but no one is there yet.

Very useful

Just Awesome, i am so happy to have this, i no longer lose some tabs track

The automatic back up is superb

Just a word describes it, that it "AWESOME"