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Stowback

Free feature

Save and restore Chrome tab groups with their names and colours

A window you have arranged into tab groups is work. Stowback saves it as it is and opens it again the same way.

Coming soon to the Chrome Web Store

How

  1. Click the Stowback button in the toolbar, or press Alt+Shift+D to save the window you are in at once.
  2. In the panel, press Save on a window. It becomes a snapshot, named after what it holds; rename it if you like.
  3. Later, open Saved and press Open. The window comes back in a new window.

What you get

  • Tab order, pinned tabs, group names, colours and folded state come back, and so does the tab that was in front.
  • You can also save every window at once, only the tabs you selected in the tab strip, or a single group.
  • From a snapshot you can open everything, one group, or one tab, and add it to the window you are in instead of a new one.
  • More than 15 tabs are opened unloaded: each tab is in its place with its title and loads when you click it.
  • Snapshots are unlimited on the free plan and are never removed by the extension.

Limits worth knowing

  • What you typed into a page, scroll positions, the back button’s history and ended sign-ins are not saved.
  • Private (incognito) windows are never saved.
  • Chrome refuses a few kinds of address when an extension opens them. Those are listed for you after a restore, not dropped silently.
  • A window saved on a screen that is no longer connected opens where Chrome places it.

This is part of the free plan. See pricing.

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