Smart Sessions - Tab Manager

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Save & restore your browser sessions. Auto saving, multiple sessions and more.

Latest reviews

• (2023-09-13) Makaruk: дуже зручно
• (2023-06-11) Sergey Master: Почти идеальное расширение для сохранения окон по разным темам.
• (2023-03-02) Hoai Anh Nguyen: you've helped me sooo much with my studying but you've just deleted all my saved tabs...
• (2023-02-12) zerosix: This one works like you are working on a project on a desk and then you clear your desk to take another project for a while, liked it.
• (2023-01-27) Dmitry Antonenko: The first app that I found which saves tab groups! Thank you very much! That's all I need!
• (2023-01-13) RCPlayzFC: Não funcionou pra mim, infelizmente...
• (2022-12-13) Carl Worthington: UPDATED: With the recent fix, it's back to normal and runs great. Saves so much time and energy switching between projects. ........ I've used this extension for the past 2 years and never had an issue. it helped me so much to be able to switch between Windows/Projects. However since having to re-install it on my new laptop (Windows 11) about 2 weeks ago, the extension doesn't work anymore. Selecting the window brings up an window "An error occurred. Send report?" and that's it. I can't open or use any of my others. I can uninstall it, and re-install.Which works for a while it stops working again eventually. Unsure if it's due to putting the laptop to sleep most times or not. I can't access or use the extension :( feels like I've lost a limb. I hope it can be resolved, or I'll need to look at another extension.
• (2022-11-27) Đorđe Jović: A weird app that I'd recommend skipping. You cannot drag and drop tabs between the windows. You cannot even see other windows... Don't download this if you're working with many browser windows with many open tabs..
• (2022-11-11) Bohdan Kolesnykov: First one-two month it've been working fine, but then history deleted, and something else happened causing non-ability to open saved histories - so don't try yourself and move through this extension
• (2022-04-25) Xalomon: Completely useless because when you have many tabs and they're lost (the only reason to have this), the thing will want to load them all at once, filling the memory, crashing the browser, making the system hang, because it's not designed to handle all these tabs at once (compare with Recently Closed where reloading a window with many tabs only loads the active one and there's no problem.) They would appear unloaded for this to work. At least it didn't destroy the Back button pages history of my tabs, for that it gets an extra star...
• (2022-04-22) Владимир Макиенко: Good extension! I found only one inconvenience. After a browser launch it automatically opens many tabs from the last session before exiting and this extension doesn't detect that it's this session and display this session as Not saved despite it was saved before. After this I have to open this session from extension to continue work in the session. I would like if you make your extension to automatically detect last closed session after browser launch.
• (2022-01-05) Erick Ramos Aparicio: Es una gran extension pero falta la sincronización entre dispositivos
• (2022-01-05) Demo Sebastian: This is exactly what I need, although it would be good if there is a feature when create a new session, instead of auto open a new windows for all the tabs include in this session, but just close those tabs after save a new session, or at least give us the choice to decide either way Thanks for the good work
• (2021-11-18) Mini Z: I love it. Saves all my tabs and lets me restore them at the click of a pixel. Went through several other tab savers, but none of them were as good as this one. Definitely install if you're looking for an easy way to save several groups of tabs
• (2021-09-26) Hosty: It does something its not suppost to do, and i never told it.. when selecting which tabs to be saved and clicking "Create" (for LATER) , it opens them in a new window!... I would have been using this tool if it wasnt for this... pitty..
• (2021-04-15) Valeriano Juan Zarzosa Caqui: La mejor extensión una vez que aprendas a utilizarlo y quieras ser productivo, después de probar muchas extensiones por fin alguien entendió las necesidades del usuario organizado y productivo.
• (2021-03-22) José Devezas: Exactly what I was looking for! Simple, yet nicely designed. It only needs better support for opening maximized windows.
• (2021-03-13) Richard Lloyd (K3tonan): By far my favorite Tab/Session tool. I use two others at the moment FreshStart (as I have a bunch of sessions there and it saved to bookmarksfor syncing) and Tab Session Manager. Tab Session Manger was going to be my go to over FreshStart since they added backup to Google and their AutoSave function. However, I still like the idea of saving to bookmarks for users who want to access via a mobile device. I will admit I like how the one in the video works. What happen to the pinning/unpinning of the Smart session window? What happen to clicking New Window and it prompting "Would you like to assign new window to a tracking session? "- Auto backup to your google account", I am not seeing it in the current version.
• (2021-02-04) かみかつき: Damm... It will reload all tabs after pause and start. And will lose all groups. Weird design.
• (2020-12-25) Herman Brümmer: Hate these pop up messages with notifications every time I close a tab, super unproductive
• (2020-10-27) Gerdami des Bêtes: I really like this extension. It does the job! Just one thing, when I run one or more sessions, I need to press Escape to make the menu disappear. Perhaps it could vanish automatically after a few (configurable) seconds. Many thanks !
• (2020-10-12) Marc (Xiro): Greetings! So I really hate to drag down the rating on this however, I have to. This extension was acting fine for the longest time. I would have given it a clean five star review like others, but unfortunately I didn't have a good experience. I'm not sure why in the least, but I have been using the extension for a decent period of time and despite quirks here and there I was really getting ahold of the system. It was great, for a time. Now, I accept that I am also to blame for poor backup behaviour and this increased the level of problem that I faced. For some reason unknown to me, just now when opening up the browser again the entire catalogue of organization and arrangement for my tabs vanished in a poof like I'd installed the extension fresh. My blame is there also, because they do offer the option to export these lists presumably in case something like this happened. To be fair though, this is not a typical behaviour. There aren't many people that on closing down their computer to pack it in at night who automatically think that they should backup each tab-grouping I had. Sadly, with this information gone I now have to rebuild the structure as best I can and to try an alternative. There is a problem with the possibility of this happening on any Tab management service that doesn't create its own redundant backups. There is no major issues with the extension and it works entirely fine. I have no idea why it did this to me, but the damage has been caused and it's going to take awhile to load up everything lost from both recreational websites to important medical websites pertaining to my health. This could have been just a simple crossing of stars that aligned just right for the perfect storm, and I accept that it might just have been that. With that said, I am unable to trust the extension to handle my information at this juncture and will be seeking a different "Tab Management Addon" extension and thankfully it's a pretty large market. Assuming you don't get the same problem the extension is actually alright. It has a steep curve and it doesn't handle as well as I would like. There's some improvement to be made, and maybe I will eventually come back to this. But for now? Now it sits at two stars, and I'm sorry for it. I hope you understand my reasoning though, "serge". Be well, stay healthy, and always let both wisdom and compassion guide you on your path.⁽™⁾      Marc S.
• (2020-09-13) Polar Torsen: Так-то, вообще, хорошая штука, и уже было хотел зайти выразить восторг, но прочитал комент Игоря Зинченко, попробовал Session Buddy, и понял, что вот, где восторг. При любви к замусориванию сессии огромным кол-вом табов - это просто лучший вариант. Потому что, если в Smart Sessions список выводится в небольшом окошке, то в Session Buddy это такой солидный широкий список в отдельном окне, который удобно читать. Таким образом проще разобраться, что там за вкладка, не открывая её. Получается, как отдельные папочки с букмарками, только в очень удобном для обозрения виде. Жаль, что так сложно найти нужное расширение. Сперва печатал в хроме backup tabs, и там такая мутотень выпала, что приходилось всё бэкапить копируя файл на диске, который с трудом удалось отыскать. Оказывается есть современные решения. Пользуйтесь.
• (2020-09-12) Dan: I like it. Does its job, but lacks a couple things: 1. Ability to disable the annoying "a window was closed" popup; 2a. Ability to turn multi-instance off (i.e. alternate between sessions, opening a window with the selected session and closing the previous one - preferrably keeping the underlying sessions' storage and cookies active, so we don't have to log back into everything); 2b. Or we could just have another button: "open this session" and "alternate to this session" (closes the current one); 3. It's also sometimes hard to tell which session is currently active. I don't know how this could be solved, though. Maybe changing the background slightly or adding a little badge, not sure. Other than that, it's a great and functional extension.
• (2020-08-02) Dennis Bareis: Seems too hard to use. It closed a window which had some saved tabs but it closed all tabs not just those that had been saved. so far "session buddy" is the closest to what I want.
• (2020-07-24) Mfp Disposable: After spending three days trying to save sets of tabs in re-usable sessions, this WORKED! And the automation didn't mess with my work. And it is "portable" too! Do I desperately want an option to re-order my saved sessions? To resize the smart-sessions window? Pure keyboard navigation? Asking at the end of the session, not the beginning, whether I want to save changes to the tabs? Maybe even auto-save changes and offer me the option to keep or lose the changes when I next start the session? A session trash / undo feature? Of course!!! BUT, after three days of looking this is the first tab manager that: worked on Vivaldi, Edge and Chrome. Allowed me to save my tab-sessions in one browser and load them in the others. Did NOT lose the tabs I saved because I closed a browser window directly instead of using the tab manager. Did nor unexpectedly add tabs into my curated sessions without me wanting them to be there. All things other tab managers did! And did I mention that the backup and restore functions WORKED. Across browsers too!
• (2020-07-02) Jeffrey B. Dewitt: Did not work.
• (2020-06-30) jåW dîN: It's not possible to navigate entirely with the keyboard. For example, I have gmail in a "General" session. I can activate the extension with a hotkey and type gmail which shows me the tabs were it exists. However, I can't get down to any of those tabs, whether by pushing tab, arrow keys, etc. So I have to reach to my mouse to navigate. Seems quite good besides that, but my search continues.
• (2020-03-22) Tales Somensi - Inel: Great! Thumbs up for the auto save feature, this is whats makes it the best option for managing sessions. Suggestion: It would be very useful to be able to modify tab titles in the list, for organization purposes.
• (2020-01-18) Asen Anastassov: Smart Sessions extension is one of the best session managers available- it sports elegant design combined with a good set of features- auto save, tags, search, export/import. Yet this already nice extension can be improved even more of some new features are added: - Option to show number of tabs after session name - Option to sort sessions according to session name/creation time - Option to re-arrange sessions via drag&drop - Option to re-arrange tabs inside a session via drag&drop - Option to customize the name of the exported HTML file (time/date format) - Option to open a session in current window which appends session tabs after last tab in current window - Context menu integration- right-click on a page- context menu item- 'Add tab to Smart Sessions' with sub-menus containing list of saved sessions to select - The extension should respect browser window size and position after a new session is opened in a new window, now users need to use Smart Sessions in conjunction with window resizer extensions to restore the window size and position after Smart Sessions has opened a session in new window - Dark theme If these features are implemented Smart Sessions would become the ultimate session manager for Chromium-based browsers. Many thanks to the developer for this excellent extension.
• (2020-01-11) Игорь Зинченко: Мало функций. Остался на Session Buddy.
• (2019-10-12) Bill Fruge: I've been searching for something like this for a very long time and finally...it's just exactly what I needed to keep track of tab and window groups.
• (2019-04-21) Muhammad Riaz Raja: Excellent work done by the developer serge. No other exact alternative is available in entire Chrome web store. Although, I tried many other extensions but finally I found the best of the best extension which satisfy my entire requirements.
• (2018-12-17) 小齐: Awesome! This is the only session management that can autosave multiple windows I see so far. One bug I find is that popup window can't be detected. Maybe it is restricted by chrome? I would also like to have the ability to control with keyboard :)
• (2018-12-11) Andrew Tate: Love it. I often end up with rather a lot of tabs across the top of my browser where I have been researching some topic or prospective purchase. I then need to do something totally different so would like to close all the tabs but then need to open them all again when I have finished with the new stuff. So I don't want to bookmark them all just to get a clean browser, in fact I want to "save my session" to come back to later. Now I have a solution - simple save a session & come back to it later after doing the new stuff in a clean copy of chrome. Wonderful. I used to leave chrome alone (or set restore tabs option and close it down) and go and open Internet Explorer of all things ... now so much better. Thanks a bunch for this.
• (2018-11-20) Alex Efros: It will be much more convenient if few more features will be added to make it work more like old Firefox's Tab Groups extension: - switch to another group by clicking on group name or name of any tab in that group - implement group switching within same browser window
• (2018-11-12) Dopamine: You're a god. As a master procrastinator and abusing my poor ram from overload of tabs this is absolute life saver, but epsecially this extension because, as you may have guessed - i just create a hundred of sessions "for later" that i forget or just hard to find the exact session i need. So the idea of tags makes me instantly categorize of "this is where i browsed cat videos for 5 hours" , "this is where i found some newbie lessons and resources for learning to code" and etc. It helps because when I get into that mindset again, I can bring back the exact order of tabs and continue procrastinating but in a convenient way of what im interested in at the exact moment
• (2018-10-01) Óscar: Not working properly after last Chrome update. Please fix it.
• (2018-06-22) Смотрим Вместе: Очень удобный. Остальные можно выкинуть

Latest issues

• (2023-01-15, v:1.6.2) Ben Rose: How can i add window to session?
  For now if i save session. then add window. it is not saved to session and i don't see any way to add it to the session
• (2022-11-06, v:1.6.0) Linden May: Would be great to edit to add manually, as Google Sheets has context menu control and cannot add google sheet
  Would be great to edit to add manually, as Google Sheets has context menu control and cannot add google sheet
• (2022-10-12, v:1.6.0) Linden May: I would love the ability to rearrange the order
  I would love the ability to rearrange the order. Now, I have to delete all and save in an order
• (2022-06-15, v:1.6.0) Jens Ohlsson: A suggestion for this great plugin!
  I would be awesome if the window name for a session (also) was saved. Ie. If I name a window for which I have a session (Menu / Window / Name Window...) and then close it. When I later start the session I would like the window name to be restored.
• (2022-03-02, v:1.4.3) Brenda Smith: adding tabs to tab bar
  How do i add tabs to my chrome bar
• (2022-01-05, v:1.4.3) Erick Ramos Aparicio: Sincronización
  Es una excelente extension, pero me gustaría sugerir la sincronización con google para tener todas las sesiones en cualquier dispositivo
• (2021-08-29, v:1.4.3) Natalie: I lost all the groups of tabs kept in this extension, how can I restore them?
  2 days ago, I opened one group and then close it as usual, but yesterday I want to reopen it then I realize not only the group but all of them (includes old groups that I saved before) has gone, there's nothing but blank. I want to restore them so much because it's important to me, is there any solution? Thank you.
• (2021-07-17, v:1.4.3) БлагоЯр Тишина: Сбрасывается активность сессии
  Если произошло аварийное завершение браузера (в моём случае Edge for Windows 7 x64), то сессия, которую я сделал активной сохраняется, но становится не активной после того, как браузер запустился и попросил восстановить сессию.
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• (2021-06-17, v:1.4.3) bob f: Finally! Automatic session management
  Works well. It would be nice though if when opening a session, a lazy method was used i.e. only load the current tab, and have others load on activation.
• (2021-03-13, v:1.4.3) Richard Lloyd (K3tonan): Right-Click a tab or select multiple tabs, Save to a tracking session.
  Right-Click a tab or select multiple tabs then right-click to Save/Add to a tracking session.
• (2021-03-13, v:1.4.3) Richard Lloyd: Right-click Smart Session icon for additional options
  Additional options, mostly for quick saves. - Create using All open Windows. - Create using Current Window. Alternatively, when clicking the create button prompt All Windows or Current Window. Sometimes I am in a rush and just need to do a quick save.
• (2021-03-13, v:1.4.3) Richard Lloyd: Feature - Select 'Create Active Session' by right-clicking a bookmark folder.
  I can see this for long term usage so not to bog down the context menu. When closing this active session an option to save back to that folder. Side Note: Serge, I make these request in hopes it appeals to you. I see so many great extensions and over time the developer grows tired of maintaining/adding requests then drops them. Please, when adding/maintaining/updating do it for yourself and for what you need. The only way I see a developer maintaining/updating an extension is for their own needs and they are sharing the fruit of their labor or for donations/contributions or both. I have no expectations. So when you see my Suggestions/Request keep that in mind. Thank you.
• (2021-01-30, v:1.4.3) Ahmed Aredah: Sync with Google Account
  I would love it if you enable syncing with my google account so we can use it everywhere.
• (2020-12-26, v:1.4.3) Todd Carter: Context menu
  Please make the context menu item an option.
• (2020-10-15, v:1.4.3) Ratan Rapolu: Support Chrome Tab groups
  Hi, Please support chrome's tab groups feature as part of this extension. a combination of both these will be mind blowing.
• (2020-08-27, v:1.4.3) Ayush Mittal: Tab suspension and Tab Delay
  I would love to see 2 more features in this extension. a.) Suspend a tab after some time. b.) When I run a saved session, it loads all the tabs I only want it load one. the rest should be loaded only when i click on that tab. -- I would also love to have automatic new window tracking as an option available. When I open a new window start saving it also, basically there should be nothing like unsaved everything should be saved. thanks.
• (2020-06-11, v:1.4.2) Greg Mally: Auto Export/Backup Sessions
  Today I did a Clear Browser Data and found out that the activity removed all my Smart Session sessions. Thankfully I used a recent backup to restore the browser directory and I recovered the sessions. A couple of questions: 1. Where are the created sessions stored? 2. Is there a way to automatically do an export/backup of the sessions?
• (2020-05-04, v:1.4.2) Chris J: Incognito windows
  Hello, Great extension, 99% what I was looking for. Only thing I need (I use them a lot) is for the Incognito windows to be remembered so they re-open in Incognito — is this possible? Please please please! :) Regards, Chris
• (2020-02-29, v:1.4.2) Mattie Latta: Timer
  Is there any way to add a timer to session to be automatically opened at given intervals?
• (2020-02-19, v:1.4.2) jzyken: Import do not work
  I can import settings only via url chrome-extension://hhfefdiablijkjnbkmdfbopiimjilchh/index.html
• (2020-02-03, v:1.4.2) Vadim Solomin: adding window to an active session
  How do I add another window to an existing active session?
• (2019-12-05, v:1.3.8) Deniz: simpler switching
  could you add a button to the session overwiew that switches the current session to a saves session instead of opening in a new tab this is a really really underrated piece of software, i love it
• (2019-10-31, v:1.3.3) Bin Wang: My Smart session stopped working
  This extension suddenly stopped working. The window is empty as shown in https://photos.app.goo.gl/WjZyysxmF662sYTi8. And when I click "create", it will freeze for a while and then show up an error occurred page. I already reported the error. Is this caused by my settings? Could it be fixed?
• (2019-09-18, v:1.2.2) Julia Echevarria: can't delete sessions?
  How can I delete sessions/tags that I no longer need? I've tried doing this by clicking on the "x" icon that appears when I hover over the item but it never actually deletes it.
• (2019-04-19, v:1.2.2) Diego Almeida: how to add a tab to a session?
  Just need to add new tabs to existing sessions all the time. I cannot find how? Thanks
• (2019-04-12, v:1.2.2) Martin Wictorsson: Vivaldi not launching after creating new session
  On both my home and work computers, the same problem happens. One main window with lots of tabs. Creating a new Smart Session with a selection of the tabs. The window closes and when it tries to re-open the two windows, Vivaldi crashes. Only way to get it going again is to delete the "Current Session" file under "C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Local\Vivaldi\User Data\Default". But this causes the main window to reset with no tabs of course. The newly created Smart Session is available in the list and can be opened, so it is something related to the main window that makes it crash, I would assume. So right now, I am not comfortable using the tool's functions fully. One way is of course to make a kind of backup by creating a new Smart Session with ALL current tabs in it, just so that they are not getting lost.
• (2019-01-27, v:1.2.2) Matt Smith: Opening a session
  Could you add two quick functions: 1 - Double-click on session name opens it 2 - Add text to the icons in the sessions list so we know what they mean. A folder icon usually means to open the location of something or to create a new folder. Also, what's the easiest way to add a tab to an existing session?
• (2019-01-27, v:1.2.2) Matt Smith: Scrollbar not working correctly
  I can use the mouse wheel to scroll in the open tabs (creating a new set of sessions), but I am unable to click on the scrollbar. When I go to add a new session it shows two scrollbars (I can screenshot via email, if desired).
• (2018-12-26, v:1.2.1) Islam Kursaev: sync
  Hi! Does it keep my sessions in the cloud so I can sync them between devices or restore them after deletion of extension/browser?
• (2018-11-20, v:1.2.1) Alex Efros: Several issues with Vivaldi
  Vivaldi "Tab Stacks" is not supported - after creating new session in window which include few stacks and then closing this window and reopening related session all stacks was unstacked to usual tabs. There is also critical issue which makes it useless with Vivaldi at the moment: I had 4 windows, each related to one session with active tracking. Several of these windows had (different) pinned tabs. After existing from Vivaldi (using Ctrl-Q) and then starting it I got only one window, which contains one of 4 previously open sessions PLUS all pinned tabs from all other windows opened before exiting from Vivaldi. After removing these extra pinned tabs from this window and trying to open other 3 sessions and also trying to exit and restart Vivaldi once again everything had got all mixed up (there are 2 windows with nearly same tabs, there is a session with tabs from 2 windows, pinned tabs are missing, …).
• (2018-11-20, v:1.2.1) Alex Efros: Ask for tracking preference doesn't work in Vivaldi
  If group is created with "ask" option for tracking preferences then in Vivaldi--2.1.1337.47/Linux all I see is new empty window each time popup asking about tracking preferences should be shown. As a workaround I set it to "always" instead of "ask".
• (2018-11-11, v:1.1.6) jzyken: Export stopped working =(
  Just opens a blank page.