TabFern tab manager and backup tool

Xalomon

2022-04-25

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.

r w

2021-08-31

Please offer keyboard shortcut such as Alt+T to load the tab list. Besides, please offer two columns tab list optionally for wide screen desktop.

James Chase

2021-04-12

This tool is amazing and underrated! I used Tabs Outliner for a long time and that has it's benefits too but the ability to easily name and open/close windows in Chrome with Tab Fern means you can basically do what Chrome *should* do which is keep your idle windows from using all your system resources. Just open a named window "session" when you want to research those thing.

What made me switch in the first place though was the ability to easily backup the open windows and tabs to a local file and then re-load this file on another computer -- so you can easily transfer your browser state for those of us that work at companies that block tools that use cloud storage like Chrome's synchronization.

Jeff State

2021-03-22

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.

Hikari Shidou

2020-07-24

I had used it for a day and it's really impressive. It's the third best and most flexible tabs manager I've ever experienced. I loved how it saves backup on json format, this way I'm able to manually create backups of single windows. I'm willing to donate if you keep it open source and implement support for tree tabs structure and/or per-tab hibernation, similar to how Tabs Outliner works.