Export OneTab to another tool
Short answer: open the OneTab page, choose Export / Import URLs, select all the text in the export box and save it in a plain text file. That file is your complete list of saved tabs. Most tab managers can import it, and any browser can open the links from it.
Do this before you uninstall OneTab. Removing the extension deletes its saved tabs.
1. Export from OneTab
- Click the OneTab icon, or open the OneTab page from the extensions menu (the puzzle icon) if you've hidden it.
- Choose Export / Import URLs. Depending on your version it sits at the top right of the page or in OneTab's menu.
- The export box shows every saved tab, one per line, in the form
https://example.com/page | Page title. A blank line separates the groups you saved at different times. - Click into the box, press Ctrl+A (Cmd+A on Mac), then Ctrl+C.
- Paste into a plain text editor (Notepad, TextEdit in plain-text mode, VS Code) and save it as
onetab-export.txt.
Check the end of the file: if you have thousands of tabs, make sure the last group made it into the paste.
2. What the export keeps, and what it drops
- Kept: every URL, its title, and the grouping (as blank lines).
- Dropped: group names, the date each group was saved, and starred or locked flags. If group names matter, write them down or rename the groups in your new tool after importing.
3. Bring it into another tool
The text format is simple enough that you have options:
- A tab manager with a OneTab importer (Tabkeep has one) reads the file as is and keeps the groups.
- Bookmarks: open a group with OneTab's Restore all, then press Ctrl+Shift+D (Cmd+Shift+D on Mac) to bookmark all open tabs into a new folder. Repeat per group.
- Another OneTab: on a new computer, paste the same text into Export / Import URLs → Import.
Keep the file
Even after you've switched, keep onetab-export.txt somewhere that's backed up. It's a complete, readable record of your saved tabs that doesn't depend on any extension.
Import OneTab into Tabkeep
In Tabkeep, open Import, choose OneTab and paste the text or pick your file. Each OneTab group becomes a Tabkeep session, ready to search and restore one tab at a time. Nothing is opened, and you see the counts before anything is saved.