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Stowback

Free feature

Get your tabs back after Chrome crashes or a window is closed

Nothing can be saved at the moment a window closes: by then its tabs are gone. Stowback writes down what is open a moment after every change instead, so it is already there when something goes wrong.

Coming soon to the Chrome Web Store

How

  1. Install Stowback. There is nothing to switch on.
  2. After a crash or a restart, open the panel: it offers the tabs that were open and are not open now. Press "Bring them back".
  3. For a window closed by mistake, open the Timeline and press Reopen. For a single tab, the Timeline lists the last 100 tabs you closed.

What you get

  • Each window comes back with its groups, and a workspace window is followed again.
  • The timeline gets at most one entry a minute and thins out as it ages, so it does not grow without end.
  • The free plan shows the last 7 days; Pro shows a year.
  • Deleting a snapshot or a workspace, closing duplicate tabs and replacing a window can each be undone from the Timeline.

Limits worth knowing

  • Changes made in the last second or two before a crash may not have been written yet.
  • It can only bring back what happened while it was installed.
  • If you switch the timeline off in Settings, only the state needed after a crash is kept.

This is part of the free plan. See pricing.

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