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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

  1. Click the OneTab icon, or open the OneTab page from the extensions menu (the puzzle icon) if you've hidden it.
  2. Choose Export / Import URLs. Depending on your version it sits at the top right of the page or in OneTab's menu.
  3. 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.
  4. Click into the box, press Ctrl+A (Cmd+A on Mac), then Ctrl+C.
  5. 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

3. Bring it into another tool

The text format is simple enough that you have options:

Restoring a large group opens every tab at once and can slow your computer down. Bookmark big groups in smaller batches, or use an importer that doesn't need to open the tabs.

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.