6 Best Session Manager Extensions for Chrome

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1. Session Manager – Easy Simple Option

If you are looking for a simple extension that saves all the currently open tabs, Session Manager is a great choice. Click on the extension icon to save the tabs.

You can name your tab group for better identification later. When you need the tabs later, clickOpennext to the session name.

Tip:Move your mouse over the number of tabs text to view the websites inside it.

You cannot move tabs from one group to another, and the extension can’t open select tabs outside the saved session. On the brighter side, the extension lets you add a new tab to the existing group. While the extension lets you import and export sessions, it doesn’t offer a cloud sync feature.

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2. Session Buddy – Extensive Tab Collection Search

Session Buddy is one of the most popular session manager extensions for Chrome. It loads in a separate window when you save a session each time.

While some may like it, others prefer to save the session right from the toolbar at the top, as present in some of the extensions mentioned on this list. However, loading it in a separate window has its benefits, as you get many features.

For instance, you can search for sessions, name your sessions, check the number of tabs in each session, and open each tab separately. You can even sort the tabs inside a session by their title or URL. You can even create a duplicate copy of a saved session.

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3. Cluster – Window & Tab Manager

Cluster is somewhat similar to Session Buddy. You can search for your tabs present inside sessions, open a single tab, and remove a tab. Cluster refers to the saved sessions as Windows.

You can move tabs between various windows (or sessions) with drag-and-drop.

While this extension also opens in a separate tab, you can use theCtrl+Mkeyboard shortcut to launch the extension tab. Other features include suspending tabs and sorting tabs so that similar tabs are kept together.

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4. Better-Onetab – Easy Tab Storing Options

Better-Onetab provides multiple ways to store your open tabs. You can store all tabs, selected or unselected tabs, and the tabs on the right or the left of the currently active tab.

While the ability to store tabs is available from the toolbar itself, you need to launch the extension in a separate window to open tabs. When you open a saved session, it will remove that session from the list by default. You can change such behavior inside the extension settings. Other features include a dark mode, pinned lists, search, and import/export. The cloud sync facility is currently in beta.

Interestingly, you can also save a session or a tab from the right-click menu. Check similarChrome extensions to save a set of open tabs.

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5. Tab Session Manager – Multiple Restore Options

Similar to the Session Manager mentioned above, this one opens when you click on the extension icon in the toolbar, making it easy to access.

You will see the list of previously created sessions. Clicking on theSavebutton at the bottom saves the current session. You cannot choose the tabs that you want to save. However, once saved, you can delete individual tabs from the session. If you want, you can expand the extension and view it in a separate tab.

Sessions can be sorted using the native sorting feature. The extension offers a cloud sync feature using Google Drive.

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6. Save for Later – Simplistic Tab Manager

If other services offer too many options, consider the Save for Later extension. The extension takes a minimalist approach to saving sessions. Click theSave this windowbutton to save all the tabs in the current session.

Later, when opening the session, click on the session name, and you are done. The downside is that you can not save just one tab at a time.

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Last updated on 15 July, 2024

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