TabFern tab manager and backup tool

Chrome Web Store

by Chris White

v0.4.1 Updated Apr 14, 2025 1.42MiB

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Description

-------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE TF has been updated to Manifest V3 --- please report any issues at https://github.com/cxw42/TabFern/issues . As always, back up early and often! Thanks! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- TabFern organizes your browsing life. It shows all your open windows and tabs in one place, for immediate access. With one click, you can close a window, and then bring it back any time with one more click. With two clicks, you can backup all those URLs to a text file, or restore a backup. No need to login to copy browsing sessions between computers! With TabFern, switching between projects is a breeze, and you can leave a task behind without worrying about losing the pages. TabFern is perfect for researchers, the perpetually curious, and anyone who winds up with way too many tabs open at once! TabFern is under active development, so please do not hesitate to report bugs or provide feedback via GitHub. TabFern is offered AS-IS, and with NO WARRANTY — see the license on the Web site for full details. However, the primary author uses TabFern almost 365 days a year, so bug reports should receive a quick response :) . If you would like to contribute to TabFern's development, feel free — we welcome pull requests and would be happy to help you get started. Permissions: The "Read your browsing history" permission permits TabFern to access the URLs and titles of pages you visit, so that it can help you manage your tabs. TabFern stores that data only on your computer, and does not send it anywhere. TabFern is inspired by the Tabs Outliner extension by Vladyslav Volovyk. However, TabFern is a completely separate extension, and is not affiliated with Tabs Outliner or with Vladyslav in any way.

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Reviews (7 cached)

Last 12 months

★☆☆☆☆2022-10-07

bane banely

I would really love to try this. Unfortunately nothing happens when clicking the extension icon...Not even if I right click and open it from that menu. In fact, I cant even get the extensions options to load! just says loading... what gives?

★☆☆☆☆2022-04-25

Xalomon

When trying to restore a backup of a lot of tabs they all will be loaded in memory and make Chrome crash, unlike recently closed that loads them suspended and doesn't have this problem.

★★☆☆☆2022-08-22

Stephen S

if only it could move with chromes UI and open / close with it then I'd use it.

★★★☆☆2021-03-22

Jeff Statz

This is one of the few session management extensions that appears to remain active development. However, this extension does not support restoring Tab Groups. Restoring sessions results in disorganized tabs, which then need reclassifying into Tab Groups. Google has listed the Tab Group API as working since Chrome v89: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/extensions/reference/tabGroups/ My hope that an actively-developed extension, like TabFern can now use Chrome's Tab Groups API to get it implemented. Everything else with this extension, works great, so this is a 5* review as soon as Tab Group restoration is implemented.

★★★☆☆2019-06-12

Sergio D

I just opened chrome and it showed me and empty tab. I tried with TabFern and it restored a backup from last month... so it's basically useless.

★★★☆☆2018-04-11

Garreth Tinsley

very similar to, but not as good as Tabs Outliner due to inability to close tabs from the overview window.

★★★☆☆2017-09-27

Anton Chupin

One feature is crucially needed: saving of history of browsing in a tab.