TabXpert - session and tab manager

hard and confusing to use

this extension is trash just like all the others i just resetted my pc and exported the data from the extension in tabxpert format and it shows wrong file format they just are just greedy for money is all

Don't like I cannot have as pop-up within browser. Not compact on my 11" notebook or 10" tablet. EDIT: Uninstalled and installed and just lost 400 tabs! Not happy! Impossible to read text in this dark theme with Light Blue and White text. Illegible... Need to add ability to shuffle/drag things around and make using on tablet easier. I just want to save my tabs, create groups, restore windows when ctrl-w closes the window instead of the tab (due to only tabs hidden that don't match current domain URL) - so closes window. Need to be less overwhelming. Needs compact view like TSM Tab Sess Manager please. EDIT: I am not indian!? Has your account been hacked? Are you a racist developer?!? ???

Gets corrupted often, and on top of that they are basically killing the free version. Who would want an extension to save 5 closed sessions! I was considering supporting the devs but the extension has gotten worse over time. Once the update goes through this is a dead extension for 90% of the users as even the plus version doesn't have cloud saves which is the only way to deal with the extension getting corrupted, would recommend jump ship now instead of supporting these greedy devs.

I was using this extension faithfully for a very long time... Unfortunately, the extension got corrupted a few days ago. When I 'repaired' it, I found that my entire tab history going back over YEARS had been deleted!!! I shook my head and thought: "Oh well, these things happen sometimes, it can't be helped." Then I saw the update saying that the unlimited free accounts were causing the devs to lose money, so they were changing it so it can only save five closed sessions. I was willing to give it another go with a Plus (or even Pro) subscription. However, before I could even do that, TabXpert suddenly stopped working. I rebooted my computer and looked at my Chrome Extensions page, and found that TabXpert had become corrupted AGAIN!!! I 'repaired' it, again, and I lost all the new tabs I had saved from the past few days. I can no longer trust TabXpert to work properly, so I am no longer willing to sign up for the premium version. If the extension gets corrupted so easily, it means there's something wrong with the code, so even if I pay money, it will not be worth it if I keep losing my saved tabs. This is really too bad, because this extension was such a godsend for me for a really long time. I will just have to go looking for a new tab-saving extension that actually works, and doesn't crash like this. (I have now switched to Tab Keeper by jgeorge.dev which is "Free Forever & Open Source".)

Oh no, used to be free but new update will make it only be able to save 5 closed sessions. Not fit for my purposes anymore, jumping ship unfortunately! It did work great. Best to the devs, I get it, but still for me, very sad :(

After the next update, the extension will only allow 5 closed sessions on the free plan (previously, unlimited), which makes this extension useless without paying money on an ongoing basis (which I'm not willing to do for such basic functionality). Nobody needs such an extension to manage 5 closed sessions.

Absolutely horrible garbage, I was trying to use it and upon closing a single tab while having this open for no more than 2 minutes, this closed every single one of my tabs but itself, all of them as "single instances" meaning that with the exception of the couple handful that were last in my browser, I have to dive into my history to find older opened tabs that I constantly leave open due to always having an use for them that may have been there for over a year (the reason I installed this in the first place). I don't know what possible reason you could have for designing such a thing and allowing it to close other tabs while it isn't even in focus, but leaving it as a default that you can trigger by complete accident is ridiculous. Do not install this.

Too much is in paid version. There are better free exts

Not showing tab groups even though tab groups were enabled in the settings.

It says it's "Not compatible with this version of Google Chrome." However, it was working just Fine few days ago as far as I know SAME version of Chrome. Now, it won't Let me add it! I have no intention whatsoever of updating Chrome and having them Naggggg me to 'upgrade' microsoft, Every 18 months Say it Isn't so... I am a paid member

Why hibernate all tabs right after installation. Do you think i want you do this. Dont you even know this will refresh tabs after reload and lost tab content inputed?

This lousy extension closes all open windows and tabs organized into groups - without asking for confirmation! It loses all its organization of tabs and windows.

This deleted almost all of my tabs in every window!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think its great overall but Extension crashed first then bringing BSOD, after restart had to press chrome tab restore and decided to uninstall extension, bad move on my part, while the 100 tabs I had open had tabexpert icon, meaning still didn't load. After uninstall, all of them disappeared, bye bye tabs. Don't want to go thru that again.

Closing a tab by using the extension's Active tabs panel and restoring it by using the Closed tabs panel is WORSE than closing the tab in chrome and using Chrome's History>Recently Closed feature because the extension will delete the tab's story (Back button) in the process! Making the extension effectively useless.

The respose is very slow. And fails to response often. Even the "upgrade" bottom in its own notifcation has no response when user clicked on it.

Have really loved this, but for some reason all my saved sessions and history has disappeared when not opening the tabExpert for some time. Now only shows the sessions of one week. Any way to restore previous history?

It will auto open up all tabs in the last session after start, no matter what. Too stupid.

Was a great extension that I used for years. Then they got greedy and put a 4 session limit and I lost years worth of saved tab sessions that I can't open now. Thank you for doing that. I never would have discovered Tabox if you hadn't.

Had it not been a well written program, I would have given it just one star. What I appreciate the most about TabXpert is that it recognizes the group settings in Chrome and Edge. Most if not all of the other plugins don't. What I don't appreciate however, is the fact that even the free version is not free. The claim that you have 5 free sessions is totally misleading because all other sessions are blocked except the newly opened session. Secondly, I find the cost prohibitive since I do not need cloud backup, synchronization, or any of the other features being forced on us. The precedence that this sets is also a serious concern because if every other developer decides to charge for their app, soon the cost of opening a single web page would be prohibitive for many. What makes it even more difficult to appreciate is that every Web Browser out there is free and so is every Plugin I have used so far. You pay for it when you want advanced features, but this is clearly not the case with TabXpert. Every little thing seem to be advance and every click you make cost money. The only thing that is free is opening the app. It's all well and good for others to come on here and express their willingness to pay for it because they can afford to, but let’s look at the bigger picture. On this trajectory, millions will soon be priced out of simply being able to surf the web. Considering those who can’t afford it also helps to boost your business interestingly. If the developer can give this a thought and allow say 20 sessions (for e.g.) completely free, I have no doubt is will go a long way. Thanks for your understanding.

I don't find it particularly reliable as it doesn't necessarily save a lot of my sessions; that's why I have backup session-saving apps to make sure that my sessions DO get saved...

Can't believe the closed session are limited to 5 and anymore are gatekeeped, I've been using this from the start but I lost my laptop 4 years ago and only able to finally afford a new one now only to find out that I lost a majority of my my sessions. Edit: Do you mean that the free plan with ads will allow for unlimited closed sessions? Then I will jump back in, cause I only need those unlimited sessions.

The features are ok, however the UI design, tool bar, tips and what they are actually do are a mystery , it's completely not user friendly, I'm very afraid to click any button because they are not self explanative and I just worry click any button will destroy my whole session or delete a session

Session management without the ability to sandbox the sessions is useless. Yes, there are some tab hoarders which will love to see their tabs neatly groupped and saved, but having separate, sandboxed sessions for each tab (or a group of tabs) is a must, especially if you are a developer, do a support of different applications, work in marketing with multiple social media accounts, etc. And yes, I know that you can have different profiles in the paid versions, but that is just hiding the already tragic user juggling situation that Chrome offers. Different users in a browser is useful only if you have to share your computer with somebody else, or have a need for work and private accounts. But, who does it anymore? And having this option hidden behind a paywall is even more problematic. If you need it, you can have the same results with two separate extensions --- Edited after the response from Mr. Kiyanovsky: First, thanks for the answer. By "sandboxed sessions", I mean separting the site session context in the same browser, but different tabs. The most simple example is, say, be able to login to some site with different usernames. Yes, using different user profiles does this, but it is awkward and, if you have a lot of sites/accounts to separate, quickly becomes difficult to manage. I am a developer in a mid-size development team for ERP apps, and we need to have different sessions for each of our customers, when doing development or support. I have a friend with a marketing agency, and they need separate sessions for working with social media sites (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, etc.) for them and for their different clients (each of them having a different accounts). https://sessionbox.io/ is one good example, there is MultiLogin, etc. I am not associated with them, except being their user. You have good foundation here, just add this feature, and it'll be a winner! --- Edit 2: Here is an extension we use every day, and it separates sessions from tab to tab, in a same browser window. It's called MultiLogin, can be downloaded here: https://chrome-stats.com/d/ijfgglilaeakmoilplpcjcgjaoleopfi/download Unfortunately, the original author(s) didn't upgrade it to Manifest 3, so it got kicked out of the Chrome Web store. We are still using it, though, as a side load

The names of the saved groups are missing when loading a session. This basic feature is barred behind a paywall. The subscription is very expensive for an extension, costing $4 per month(!). Just for comparison, Todoist Pro, which is its own app any way more features, is also $4/month. So this extension is not a usable option in its free version and way too expensive with a subscription.

Sorry. I hate to say this, but I'm a poor guy, the new free plan forced me to give up this extension.

saved groupd tabs not working

I wanted to really like this. I switched from Tabli, but now I am going back. I really like the functionality and the speed of the extension. The session saving and syncing is nice. However, the most used feature for me is the search...and it does NOT work properly. Searching should show matching tabs that are in active windows, along with a list of closed windows with matching tabs. This does not work. "Active Window" tabs are actually in closed windows most of the time and when I click on one it will open a new window (along with the dozens of other tabs associated with that window). This is a HUGE issue for me. I really hope it is just a bug that can be easily squashed. In its current state this extension is not helpful to me.

The UI is cumbersome and requires far too much clicking. You can see the list of tabs for only one window at a time, so you must click on individual windows in the window list to see the tabs inside. In the window list, each window is shown only as a timestamp, so you don't know which window to click on. You must manually give the window a name if you want to see something other than a timestamp. https://gyazo.com/411e31a2f33a1c0a00841bc51ab4b80b I found myself clicking dozens of times and not finding what I wanted. When you create a new tab or window, a notification slides in from the right of the screen (not the browser window, the screen). The user has already seen the new tab appear, so this second form of feedback is unnecessary and distracting. https://gyazo.com/a96ddc0f3a27a598ddcfb23977f37e1e

Off to a bad start. I click for Help and I get a message saying "your file was not found". The only feature I am looking for is the ability to save all chrome windows and tabs with one click so I can restart my machine. Then one click to get them all open again.

memory leaked, used 3 GB+ of ram only for this extension then crashed , I have 250+ tabs

Not for me, clearly. Feels very unintuitive. Buttons that just do things without clear indications what they'll do. I click a website in a saved session and all my open tabs close for some reason. I just want to save my sessions for later. This feels way too overcomplicated

early on I would have given this 5 stars but now this app (set to window and/or tab auto open) does not open.. side panel blank, the options of opening not even in drop menu, can not drop back-up in sidepanel (only wants to d/l or save again), the refresh is not in menu neither.. reinstalling does nothing to fix and the browser is up-to-date.. once fixed by restarting as windows update had been put off but that was only a fix that worked to open a tab that never loaded and once refreshed brought chrome to this page. Losing this extension and looking at going back to taboutline again even though it is quite tedious but stays consistent. No idea why it stops working/loading

when I open a saved session they appear with unnamed session in the "active session" group and therefore when I close them then they are added to my closed session. The problme is that is added with an unnamed group when I alaredy have them with the name

The new UI will take some getting used to. I've been using this extension since the start where I got to test out the cloud sync for free before subscription was released. The suspended tabs doesn't seem to work? I've set it to 'yes' in the setting but it doesn't seem to do so. Edit: The suspended tabs still doesn't work. This major update has resulted in me losing incognito closed tabs left and right. Like its not getting saved if I close multiple tabs without opening the menu to check after each tab gets closed. It will only save the last closed tab and even that doesn't last long as after awhile I went to check and it disappeared (this disappearing takes 10 minutes or more to happen and I believe it might be due to the DB as all the other closed tabs did not disappear since I did an export before the last recent closed tab(s). I had tested it multiple time to see and can confirm that any closed tabs that wasn't in the export will disappear after a period of time.) (All this takes time if you ever want me to reproduce the steps as its not 100% always happening but its still happening when in the old ui version, this never happen before.) I hope this bug can get fixed as it sort of makes me paranoid of losing my tabs unless I constantly check if it gets saved properly and export it to ensure it doesn't disappear on me especially since its incognito where there is no history to search for. Thank you for reading.

I just started using this extension but whenever I open Chrome it automatically closes. I can't find anything in the documentation or online, unfortunately. I'm really hoping to get this extension working cause it might finally let me close all the tabs I tend to keep open.

You cannot see other browser windows with their tabs next to other windows...

Users beware. There's a serious issue with this extension. If you cut more then 100 tabs from a session and accedentally paste them in the closed tab part of a session. Anything after the 100 cut tabs will be lost. This is a huge oversight. (Why give the useless option of pasting to a closed tab anyway? Who came up with that idea?) Besides that it does what it delivers exactly what it promises. Though I wish tabs would start out auto suspended.

I must be honest, this session and tab manager is the best. The main attraction for this extension is its cloud sync, but it is a paid service, so unfortunately this isn't my go-to extension. I would very much rather donate to this extension if I find it very useful. Tab Session Manager is my replacement: they have free cloud sync.

Not as intuitive as other work managers

This is one of the few session managing extensions still being actively updated. 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 tabXpert, 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.

UPDATE Dec 2025: Changing from 5 stars to 3 because of this new monetization scheme. I feel torn, because I want to support great software, but I can't get behind the sudden complete crippling of the free version. After nearly 5 years of using this extension, I've built much of my workflow around it, and now I have to pay or put up with a truly terrible new tab page. I love my Momentum new tab page, and the one forced on me by TabXpert is ugly and useless, showing the current window's tabs but not my saved sessions. It doesn't even serve the developer's intended purpose, since my ad blocker works on it just fine. I would be fine with ads on the TabXpert window—which I open many, many, many times a day (I created a global keyboard shortcut and trackpad gesture to bring it to the front from any application). I would even disable my ad blocker to support the developer (or pay for premium) if I weren't so frustrated with this change. I frequently donate to support free software and would happily support this great extension if it were still free. For now, though, I'm looking for another solution. 😞 Original review: I have spent an embarrassing amount of time trying out different tab and session manager extensions: OneTab, Workona, Toby, Cluster, FreshStart, Tabs Outliner, Too Many Tabs, TabCloud, Synctab, Tab Session Manager, Tabli.... What I've been looking for is an extension that makes it easy to save a window full of tabs, restore and edit/replace it later, and sync with the cloud, and ideally also functions as a good tab manager for currently open tabs. I think I have finally found it. This extension does all that and more, going beyond even my high standards. It saves windows *automatically* with no action on my part. It has a simple, elegant interface that makes it easy to search both open and closed tabs together and quickly jump to the one you want. I don't have to remember whether I closed the tab or not. I don't have to think twice about closing a window, because I know it will be saved. Truly a game changer. Thank you!

I'm looking for an alternative to OneTab, which is simple and perfect except that it uses way too much RAM and CPU, making my browsers freeze and crash. So I was very happy to find tabXpert, with great reviews and a very responsive support, and truly wanted to find it perfect.But.... it's a much more powerful tool than OneTab (which in itself could be fine). However, after a few minutes of use, the extension "vanished". Chromium had disabled it. Other imperfections: no easy way to whitelist a tab via a contextual menu (I don't like pinned tabs due to poor eyesight), no easy way to rename a group of tabs, no easy way to "close all tabs to the left", and many other points I'm still struggling with. This is a quite powerful free tool which is lightweight so it won't devour your RAM and CPU but it's more of a windows manager than a tab manager imho. Maybe the developer(s) are trying to do too many things in one extension, thereby making the UI counter-intuitive? But I'll give it a shot and revise my rating up if warranted : )

I get a blue lower case "t" in a blue square instead of the original tab icon, so I turned this extension off to be able to see what tabs I was looking at. How to stop this blue tab icon overide?

Still figuring out how to use this (been using onetab for a long time and tabXpert works differently). So far I am very pleased with the UI and features and the developer is very active and responsive. **EDIT** Unfortunately after spending considerable time trying to fit tabXpert into my workflow, I am giving up. Pehaps one day I will try again but for now, I cannot spend more time trying to mold this into something it isn't. Going back to onetab.