Smart Tab Saver

About Smart Tab Saver Extension

The Problem 🚨

While using our browser, each tab we open consumes and reserves more memory. It's common to end up with numerous tabs open, resulting in:

💾 Excessive memory usage for unused tabs, causing the browser to slow down and the system to perform poorly.
🔍 Difficulty distinguishing between tabs due to truncated titles and sometimes missing icons.
📊 Inability to view all tabs in the browser's tab bar.

The image below illustrates a typical scenario that Smart Tab Saver aims to prevent: Browser with too many tabs open

The Solution 💡

Smart Tab Saver is here to help! It manages your tabs efficiently. Here's what it does for you:

✅ Automatically saves every URL you visit, protecting against accidental tab closures. It maintains a three-day history; for longer periods, you can use the browser's native history.
⚡ Automatically manages inactive tabs based on customizable time intervals. This not only saves memory but also declutters your tab bar. By default, Smart Tab Saver will manage any tab not accessed within 10 minutes if you have more than 15 tabs open. You can customize the management action with these options:
- Disable tab content: Saves less memory than closing but keeps the tab visible in the tab bar.
- Suspend the tab: Saves more memory than disabling content and keeps the tab. The browser automatically reactivates the tab when selected.
- Do nothing: Smart Tab Saver will not intervene with the tab.
🔄 Automatically synchronizes sessions and configurations across devices, ensuring your settings and saved sessions are always available.

Additional Features ✨

Smart Tab Saver offers additional features:

📁 Create and save named sessions from sets of URLs (tabs). This is ideal for grouping related tabs. Unlike history, sessions don't expire and are synced across devices when enabled.
🔒 Lock/Unlock pages. Prevent specific tabs from being closed by "locking" them, regardless of the number of open tabs. Simply right-click on a page and select "Lock" from the Smart Tab Saver menu. Unlock them the same way when no longer needed.

Here's a glimpse of what Smart Tab Saver offers:

Why Choose Smart Tab Saver? 🏆

Unlike other solutions, Smart Tab Saver guarantees a clean tab bar and offers additional features like data synchronization. It's not just about saving memory; it's about improving overall browser usability. Smart Tab Saver ensures you never have more open tabs than necessary. Based on real user experiences with existing solutions, it fulfills user requirements more comprehensively. Moreover, Smart Tab Saver helps reduce the carbon footprint 🌱 of computing by promoting healthier browsing habits, benefiting your work efficiency, eyesight, and mood. If you're looking for an intelligent, all-in-one tab management solution that optimizes memory usage, maintains a clean tab bar, and enhances your Chrome/Microsoft Edge experience, Smart Tab Saver is the extension for you.

News! 📰

📅 2025-04-15

Major Update: Version 2.0.0 - Enhanced Organization and User Experience

We're excited to announce the release of Smart Tab Saver v2.0.0, our most comprehensive update yet! This version brings powerful new features for better tab organization, a modern dark mode, and significant improvements to the user experience.

Key highlights include:

📊 Enhanced Session Management: Organize your sessions like never before! Sort items alphabetically, drag and drop elements between sessions, and rearrange items within a session in any order you prefer.
🌙 Dark Mode: Reduce eye strain with the new dark mode theme. Switch between light and dark modes with a single click to match your preferences and working environment.
⚡ Improved Workflow: Save all open tabs without closing them, restore pages in their original order, and enjoy collapsible sessions for a cleaner interface. The Sessions tab is now the default view for faster access.
🔄 Better Synchronization: Stay informed with the last synchronization timestamp displayed in the dashboard, so you always know when your data was last synced across devices.
🎨 Redesigned Interface: Experience a completely revamped visual interface that's more modern, intuitive, and pleasant to use. Every aspect has been carefully refined to provide a smoother and more enjoyable user experience.

This update represents a significant step forward in making Smart Tab Saver more intuitive and powerful. We've listened to your feedback and implemented features that enhance productivity while maintaining the simplicity you love.

For a complete list of changes, please check the Changelog section below. We hope you enjoy these new features!

📅 2025-03-22

Important Update: Extension Migration and Improvements

We are pleased to announce that we have successfully migrated our extension to Google Chrome Manifest Version 3, complying with Google's latest standards. This update not only ensures our extension's continued functionality but also brings several improvements and fixes.

Key updates include:

✅ Manifest V3 Compliance: Our extension now adheres to the new requirements set by Google, ensuring its long-term availability in the Chrome Web Store.
📧 Email Delivery Enhancements: We've resolved previous issues with email delivery. As a result, all communications—including activation emails, recovery messages, and other notifications—will now be sent reliably.
🔧 Overall Improvements: The migration has allowed us to implement various fixes and enhancements to improve your experience with our extension.

We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced previously and thank you for your patience during this transition. These updates will provide a more stable and secure experience for all our users.

If you encounter any issues or have questions about the new version, please don't hesitate to contact with us.

📅 2022-05-29

We have fixed some issues related with data synchronization and also, registration/activation/token recovery e-mail deliveries. We apologize for this malfunction, we will put more effort to avoid more issues.

📅 2021-11-11

We've reached over 1,000 installations! 😀 This milestone fills me with joy, as it reflects the trust users have placed in the SmartTabSaver extension when choosing it among other options. I created this extension with passion and dedication, aiming to help people in some way, and I've invested considerable effort to make it truly useful. I'm deeply grateful for your trust and the positive, constructive feedback you've provided. I'm excited to announce that updates and new features are in the pipeline, which I hope to release soon.

Thank you sincerely for your support and for being part of the SmartTabSaver community. Your confidence in this extension motivates me to continue improving and expanding its capabilities.

📅 2018-01-30

Finally Smart tab Saver is published. It has been hard but we have learned a lot doing it. You can try it and download at Chrome Web Store (also for Microsft Edge).
Tell us what you think in our Facebook page or Twitter and stay tunned about incoming changes and improvements in our blog.

Help

Synchronization Explained 🔄

Synchronization allows you to access all your saved sessions on any computer with the Smart Tab Saver extension installed. Setting it up is straightforward and only takes a few minutes.

To begin, Smart Tab Saver requires your email address. This is necessary to activate your account and send you a private, unique activation "token" that ensures only you can access your data.

We value your privacy: your email address will only be used to send the activation token and will never be shared with third parties. Only Smart Tab Saver will have access to this information.

Step-by-Step Setup Guide

Open the Smart Tab Saver extension configuration panel by clicking on the extension icon in your browser.
Navigate to the "Synchronization" section.
Enter your email address in the designated field and click "Save". You will receive an account confirmation email shortly.
Check your inbox for the confirmation email and click the activation link provided. This verifies your email address.
After clicking the activation link, you'll receive a final email containing your activation token and instructions.
Return to the Smart Tab Saver configuration panel, go to the "Synchronization" section again, and enter the received token in the "Token" field.
Click "Save" to complete the process.

Once completed, you'll see an "Activated" message at the bottom of the configuration window, confirming that synchronization is now enabled. Smart Tab Saver will automatically synchronize your configuration and sessions across all your devices.

Additional Information

Switching Users: If you want to switch to a different user account, simply enter the email and token of the account you wish to use in the configuration panel.
Creating a New Account: To set up a new user account, enter the new email address and remove any existing token from the field. Smart Tab Saver will automatically initiate the account activation process for the new user.
Troubleshooting: If you don't receive the activation email, please check your spam folder. If you still can't find it, you can request a new token through the configuration panel.

Change Log 📝

[15-04-2025] v2.0.0 - Major update with enhanced organization features and improved user experience:
- New feature Sessions can now be sorted alphabetically. Sort your session items with a single click for better organization.
- New feature Pages are now restored in the same order as they appear in the session, maintaining your preferred arrangement.
- New feature Save all open tabs without closing them. You can now save your current browsing session while continuing to work.
- New feature Move elements between sessions using drag and drop, or right-click on an element and select the destination session from the context menu.
- New feature Dark mode is now available! Switch between light and dark themes to reduce eye strain and match your preferences.
- New feature Reorder items within a session by dragging and dropping them to your desired position.
- New feature Sessions can now be collapsed and expanded for a cleaner, more organized interface.
- New feature Double-click on any history item to enter selection mode for bulk operations.
- Improvement The Sessions tab is now the default view when opening Smart Tab Saver, providing faster access to your saved sessions.
- Improvement Last synchronization timestamp is now displayed in the dashboard, so you always know when your data was last synced.
- Improvement Visual improvements to the Feedback tab for a better user experience.
- Improvement Complete visual interface overhaul for a more modern, intuitive, and visually appealing user experience. The entire UI has been redesigned to be cleaner and more user-friendly.
- FIX The "Delete All" button in sessions now correctly removes all tabs from the session and deletes the session itself.
- FIX When renaming a session, the view no longer jumps to a different position, maintaining your current scroll location.
[22-03-2025] v1.6.5 We have finally updated the extension to Google Chrome new requirements and also, do some fixes.
- FIX Errors with e-mail delivering finally and forever are fixed. It will not fail again.
- FIX Minor errors related to the forest have been fixed.
- FIX The issue that prevented icons from displaying on some links has been fixed.
- Improvement Now Smart Tab Saver uses Manifest v3. A requirement of Google in order to complain with Google last standards.
- Improvement Now when a link is deleted from history or from a session, the entire screen doesn't refresh, which was quite inconvenient before.
[22-02-2021] v1.6.4 We have worked hard and finally there is new functionality and some fixes:
- FIX Some issues when adding a URL from historial to a existing session.
- FIX Some issues when trying to delete some URLs from a existing session.
- FIX Removed some unnecesary notifications.
- Improvement Now Smart Tab Saver does not close pinned tabs. You can change this in the configuration.
- Improvement Now Smart Tab Saver shows how many tabs have closed, suspended or disabled.
- Improvement Smart Tab Saver recovers the status of any pinned tab.
- Improvement Now allows to configure the action when clicking on the Smart Tab Saver icon.
- Improvement Now allows to configure if you want Smart Tab Saver to be opened when starting the browser.
- New feature A new section called "The calm forest". Explains how you can contribute reducing the carbon footprint and gives a "Forest" where you can relax from work, your habits with too many tabs affect to the forest, read more about it in the new section. We hope you like this section.
- New feature A new section called "Feedback & Support". Do you want to help or give your opinion or make suggestions? This is your section, we appreciate it a lot.
[12-02-2021] v1.6.3 Improved dashboard styling and minor fixes:
- FIX Issue with some non-page URLs (like edge:// in Microsft Edge) that produced an error.
- FIX Issue with session save popup dialog buttons.
- Improvement Smart Tab Saver dashboard popup dialog messages style improved.
- Improvement Added tooltip to each icon in the header in the Smart Tab Saver dashboard.
- Improvement Added direct access to the CHANGELOG in the Smart Tab Saver dashboard header icons bar.
[12-02-2021] v1.6.2 Some styling in configuration and improvements:
- Improvement Smart Tab Saver allows now to do a manual synchronization from the dashboard.
- Improvement You can now decide what happens when clicking in Smart Tab Saver icon. In configuration, select "Display Smart Tab Saver" (default) or "Save & Close", this will save all opened tabs and close them.
- Improvement You can now decide if Smart Tab Saver is opened when browser starts. Go to configuration to set this option, by default, Smart Tab Saver is opened.
[10-02-2021] v1.6.1 Internal fixes:
- FIX Issue discarding "extension://" pages in Microsft Edge that could affect also in Chrome behaviour.
[09-02-2021] v1.6.0 The changes are:
- Improvement Smart Tab Saver can be opened now, in any moment, by pressing "CTRL+SHIFT+Space".
- Improvement You can also press "CTRL+SUPR" to make Smart Tab Saver save all opened tabs in a session and close them.
- Improvement You can now write in the address bar (omnibox) commands for Smart Tab Saver extension. Just write "sts" (without double quotes), press space and write one of these available commands (without double quotes) and press ENTER:
  - "sa" -> Saves all opened tabs in session and close them.
  - "ha" -> Historizes all opened tabs.
- FIX Smart Tab Saver context menu now appears correctly in the extension icon.
[08-02-2021] v1.5.0 Internal improvements and now, you can recover your synchronization token, from the configuration panel, if you lost it.
[04-02-2021] v1.4.0 There have been some improvements and fixes in the synchronization process and also in other aspects:
- FIX Change of user was not properly working.
- FIX Activation of the data synchronization was not correctly working in some cases.
- Improvement The synchronization process is now simplyfied.
- Improvement The configuration footer is now more simple and the information is now more clear. Some innecsary buttons and data have been removed.
[31-01-2021] v1.3.0 Some fixes have been done with also styling and some improvements:
- FIX Translation issues.
- FIX Styling of the options page for a better UI experience.
- FIX Texts have been revised for a better understanding.
- FIX Added missing icons to dashboard and menus.
- Improvement The "More..." menú options have been re-ordered for a better access and usage.
- Improvement Options page is now opened in a tab, not in a pop-up.
- New feature A quick access buttons for extension rincipal functions have been added, "Save all and close" and "Historize all".
[13-01-2021] v1.2.2 Smart Tab Saver is in the store again! Some minor fixes have been done.
[09-04-2018] v1.2.0 Fixed an issue with the configuration panel
[07-04-2018] v1.1.9 Now you can save all opened tabs as a session from Smart Tab Saver extension main page "More..." menu. We had before "Historize all tabs" but after using it for a while, I realised that in some cases was useful to be able to store all tabs, automatically, in a session with a name
[30-03-2018] v1.1.8 Removed some non useful notifications. Removed sound when a tab is closed.
[11-02-2018] v1.1.6 Synchronization method last changes to get working fine. Status of synchronization can now be seen. New "Help" section on the web.
[09-02-2018] v1.1.5 Synchronization method change. After some changes to data synchronization model, we could not get exactly what we need so we decide to change the way it was getting done. Now, to maintain your session data between Smart Tab Saver installations, you must create an account, by setting an e-mail in options, once saved your configuration, a confirmation e-mail is sent. Once you have confirmed your account, you can start using the received private user token to get your data synchronized with Smart Tab Saver server.
[03-02-2018] v1.1.4 Improvements to synchronization process and minor changes.
[02-02-2018] v1.1.3 Changes:
- Improvement. Closing action now is a menu where you can select the desired action.
- New feature. Now you can open the extension with "Alt+S" keyboard shortcut.
[02-02-2018] v1.1.2 Fix when closing tabs. Active tab was being closed.
[01-02-2018] v1.1.1 fixes and changes:
- FIX Issues closing restored tabs.
- FIX Issues with the option of deleting URLs after saving them in a session.
- Improvement Improvements in the synchronization when getting data.
[01-02-2018] v1.1 Fixes with tab closing.
[30-01-2018] v1.0 Initial release of Smart Tab Saver extension🙂