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Smart Sessions - Tab Manager

by serge

v1.8.1 Updated Jun 29, 2025 732KiB
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★ 4.10
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Description

With this tab manager you can group your tabs into a session. Any changes are automatically saved. Close & restore when needed. - Online synchronization with your CHROME account - Multiple active sessions - Persistent size and position of session windows - Multiple windows in a session (you can drag a tab out from active session) - Auto saving - Tags - Tab groups - Incognito mode (should be explicitly allowed for extension) - Search - Export/Import (html document) - Tab navigation/closing Demo: https://youtu.be/4PCBGIgFntA To start, click "create" in the top bar, enter new session name and select few tabs. After creation, those tabs will be moved to a new window and all changes to its tab list will be recorded, window size and position too. You can also move any tab out of active session, extension can easily track two or more windows. Jun 28, 2025 (1.8) Online cloud sync Apr 22, 2022 (1.6) - Support for tab groups - Incognito mode - Bug fixes Jan 26, 2020 (1.4) - Dark Theme - Improved Search - Export Single Session - Page Context Menu "Add To Session" - Small improvements Sep 20, 2019 (1.3) - New UI Sep 15, 2017 (1.0) - First release
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Reviews (12 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2024-10-01
A A

Needs tab groups. Needs to autosave sessions.

★☆☆☆☆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..

★☆☆☆☆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

★☆☆☆☆2020-07-02
Jeffrey B. Dewitt

Did not work.

★★☆☆☆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...

★★☆☆☆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..

★★☆☆☆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.

★★★☆☆2024-12-04
Ashish Alexander

Bad: - Bad UI for saving indivual Windows, you have to keep scrolling down to find your specific windows - Very slow loading compare to Tabox - Buggy

★★★☆☆2024-08-22
*

i expected automatic saving

★★★☆☆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.

★★★☆☆2018-07-06
Óscar

Not working properly after last Chrome update. Please fix it.

Permissions (5)

Permissions

contextMenus Can add items to the right-click menu storage Can store data locally in your browser tabGroups Can organize tabs into groups tabs Can see your open tabs and their URLs unlimitedStorage

Details

Version 1.8.1
Updated Jun 29, 2025
Size 732KiB
First Seen Mar 31, 2026