Bookmark Butler · free Chrome extension

Save your open tabs and reopen them later

Save every tab in a window as a named session, close them, and reopen the whole set in one click.

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Free · 59.22 KiB · No account · Opens the Chrome Web Store

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Illustration of the Bookmark Butler popup on a sample page.

What it does

Version 1.1. One job, done without fuss.

Name your sessions

Save Work, Research or Holiday as separate sets of tabs.

Reopen in a new window

Click a saved name to open all its tabs together in a fresh window.

Free up memory

Close the tabs you are not using today without losing them.

Delete when done

Remove a session you no longer need with one click.

Privacy

Nothing leaves your browser.

Bookmark Butler has no server and its code makes no network requests. Here is everything it touches.

Reads

Your open tab addresses, when you click Save.

Stores

Your saved sessions, in your Chrome profile.

Sends

Nothing

Why Bookmark Butler reads your tabs

Saving a session means remembering the addresses of your open tabs, which Chrome describes as "Read your browsing history" when you add it. Bookmark Butler only reads them when you click Save current session, and the list stays in your Chrome profile.

See the exact permission list
  • tabs Reads the addresses of the tabs in the current window so it can save them as a session.
  • storage Saves your settings in Chrome's own extension storage, which Chrome syncs with your Google account if sync is on. Tech How never receives it.

Set up in a minute

  1. Add Bookmark Butler to Chrome

    Click Add to Chrome, then Add extension.

  2. Name and save

    Open the icon, type a name and click Save current session.

  3. Reopen any time

    Click the session name to open all its tabs in a new window.

Questions

Something else? Contact Tech How.

Which browsers does it work in?

Chrome, Edge, Brave and Opera on a computer, installed from the Chrome Web Store. It is not available for Firefox or Safari, and phones do not support browser extensions.

Does it save tabs from all my windows?

It saves the tabs of the window you click it in.

Can Tech How see my saved tabs?

No. The list is stored in Chrome's extension storage on your profile and the extension makes no network requests.

Where Bookmark Butler saves you steps.

Get Bookmark Butler

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Free · 59.22 KiB · No account · Opens the Chrome Web Store

Version 1.1 · Updated 7 April 2023 · Support

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