Restore Tabs

Use Restore Tabs to recover what you just shut, undo and open recently closed tabs in Chrome, and restore your last session fast.

As of June 2026, Restore Tabs has users in the Productivity category.

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1.0.0
Manifest V3

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About

🔄 Shut the wrong tab in Chrome and watched your work vanish? This handy helper lets you get it back in one click — no scrolling through history, no retyping a long web address. Restore Tabs gets it back before you even notice it's gone.

Lose a single tab or a whole window, and the popup keeps a tidy record of what just disappeared. It is the simplest way to restore tabs chrome drops after an accidental click, so recovery takes seconds rather than minutes. Restore Tabs is built to bring it back the moment you spot the gap.

🚀 What the extension does:
 1️⃣ Reopen a closed tab the instant you spot it's missing
 2️⃣ Bring back a full window with every page exactly where it was
 3️⃣ Browse everything you just lost in one tidy, scrollable popup and restore tabs instantly
 4️⃣ Recover a session after a crash or an accidental quit

💡 How to restore tabs on chrome in three steps:
 1. Pin the extension to your toolbar
 2. Click the icon to see what you just lost at a glance
 3. Pick what you need and bring it back in an instant

No setup, no sign-up, nothing to learn. If you have ever hunted for a lost tab after shutting the wrong one, this was built for you.

The popup shows titles and favicons, so you spot what you need at a glance instead of scanning a wall of plain text. Everything from one crash gets grouped together, so getting it all back feels almost effortless, and reopening closed tabs feels instant.

📌 Why people keep it pinned:
 ➤ One click on the toolbar instead of digging through old history
 ➤ A quick fix for whatever vanishes by mistake, right where you need it
 ➤ Brings back a whole crashed window, not just the last thing you saw
 ➤ Quicker than the restore closed tabs chrome option hidden in History

Under the hood it uses the official sessions API, so everything lands back exactly where you left it, with its history and place in line intact. That is how it can reopen closed tabs chrome dropped during a sudden restart.

🖥️ Made for desktops and for ChromeOS
Need to restore tabs on chromebook after an update? It runs beautifully on ChromeOS and gets a student's whole workspace back the moment they sign in.
On any other machine you can restore chrome tabs just as quickly across Windows, Mac, and Linux.

⚡ Built for speed
The classic chrome reopen closed tab shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+T, only goes back one step at a time. That reopen closed tab chrome routine gets old fast, so the helper brings back the exact one you want, even one you let go an hour ago.
Everything happens locally and on the spot — no waiting and no syncing. It adds no noticeable lag and barely touches memory, so your laptop stays just as snappy. Open a closed tab and it's back before you finish the thought.

🔒 Private by design
Restore Tabs keeps everything local, with nothing tracked and nothing shared.
 ▸ Nothing ever leaves your browser
 ▸ No tracking, no ads, no account required
 ▸ Only the small set of permissions the job truly needs

❓ Frequently asked questions:
 📌 How do I restore tabs in chrome after losing everything?
 💡 Click the icon, pick what you need from the list, and bring the whole group back together.
 📌 Can it bring back what a crash wiped out?
 💡 Yes. Open the popup and your earlier work is waiting — even what a sudden freeze swallowed comes right back, in one click.
 📌 Is there a keyboard shortcut too?
 💡 The chrome open closed tab combo still works, and the extension lays a full visual list on top of it.
 📌 Does chrome restore tabs on its own?
 💡 It reloads your last session at startup, yet it won't bring back the tabs you let go earlier in the day, and that gap is exactly what this closes.
 📌 Can I undo one small slip?
 💡 Restore Tabs lets you undo closed tab mistakes with a single tap, and you can step back as far as you need.
 📌 Will this slow down my browser?
 💡 No — it stays dormant until you click the icon, so your everyday speed and battery life stay completely untouched.

🎯 Who it is for:
 - Researchers with dozens of pages open who shut the wrong one
 - Students who rely on restore tabs chromebook support between classes
 - Shoppers who want a checkout session brought back with the full cart inside
 - Remote workers who build it into their morning routine before the first meeting
 - Anyone who's ever lost a half-finished email mid-sentence
Restore Tabs fits naturally into every one of these everyday routines.

🧭 A few thoughtful touches:
 📍 Everything you just shut, gathered in one place, newest first
 📍 A reminder so nothing important quietly slips by
 📍 One tap to open last closed tab items you forgot about
 📍 Hover briefly to preview before deciding what to bring back
 📍 Works just the same on a laptop, a desktop monitor, or a tiny netbook screen

People reach this extension typing all sorts of phrases — some even search restore tabs google chrome when a session disappears. Whatever the wording, the result is the same: your work, back in a click.

Install Restore Tabs today, pin it beside the address bar, and stop fretting over what you just lost. Shutting the wrong one happens to everyone — getting it back should take a second, and now it does. 🙌

Technical

Version
1.0.0
Manifest
V3
Size
182KiB
Min Chrome
88
Languages
52
Featured
No

Metadata

ID
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Developer ID
u49675737617206c144d91465b193a5d2
Developer Email
[email protected]
Created
Jun 25, 2026
Last Updated (Store)
Jun 25, 2026
Last Scraped
Jun 26, 2026
Website
Support URL

Data sourced from the Chrome Web Store · last verified Jun 26, 2026.