How to save all Chrome tabs
Short answer: press Ctrl+Shift+D (Cmd+Shift+D on Mac). Chrome bookmarks every tab in the current window into one new folder. Name the folder and click Save.
To open them again later, right-click the folder in the bookmarks bar or bookmark manager and choose Open all. The same shortcut works in Microsoft Edge, where it saves the tabs to Favorites.
Save tabs from several windows
The shortcut only covers the window you're in. Repeat it in each window, giving each folder a clear name such as Research – 12 Nov. Put the folders inside one parent folder if they belong together.
Keep your tabs when Chrome restarts
- Open
chrome://settings/onStartup. - Choose Continue where you left off.
Chrome then reopens your windows after a restart or an update. It isn't a backup: if Chrome crashes during startup, or you close a window by mistake and keep browsing, that state can be gone. Use bookmarks or a session manager for anything you can't lose.
Save a tab group
Recent Chrome versions save tab groups for you. Right-click the group's name in the tab strip and choose Hide group (older versions: Close group) to put it away; it stays listed at the left of the bookmarks bar and under ⋮ → Tab groups, where one click opens it again. Avoid Delete group, which removes it for good. The menu wording changes between Chrome versions, so if you don't see these options, bookmark the group's tabs with the shortcut above.
Get closed tabs back
- Ctrl+Shift+T (Cmd+Shift+T on Mac) reopens the last closed tab or window. Press it again to go further back.
- Ctrl+H opens History. Recently closed in the Chrome menu (⋮ → History) lists closed windows with their tab count, so you can reopen a whole window at once.
- With Chrome sync on, History also shows the tabs open on your other devices.
Copy the list of open tabs as text
Chrome has no built-in "copy all URLs" command. The bookmark route works: save the tabs with Ctrl+Shift+D, then open the bookmark manager (Ctrl+Shift+O), open the folder, select all its bookmarks with Ctrl+A and copy them with Ctrl+C. Pasting into a text editor gives you one URL per line.
When bookmarks aren't enough
Bookmark folders are fine for a one-off. They fall short when you want every window saved all the time without thinking about it, when you need last Tuesday's tabs rather than today's, or when 300 tabs should come back without opening 300 pages at once.
Let Tabkeep save them for you
Tabkeep autosaves every window as you browse, with tab groups and pinned tabs, and keeps the history. Restore one tab, one window or everything; restored tabs load only when you click them. On first run it can import your open windows and Chrome bookmarks, plus exports from Session Buddy, OneTab, Toby and others.