Window Stash

About

Overwhelmed by too many open tabs and windows? 😵
Window Stash lets you save all your open tabs and windows in *one click*, so you can declutter your browser without losing anything important.

▬▬▬▬▬▬ Highlights ▬▬▬▬▬▬
💾 Save in one click – Stash all tabs from all windows instantly. Clear the clutter and free up memory without closing everything one-by-one.
🔄 Easy restore – Reopen your stashed windows, tabs, and groups anytime. Jump back into your previous sessions *exactly* where you left off (or reopen something specific).
📂 Convenient stash management – Easily view, manage, and export all your stashed windows and tabs from Chrome’s integrated side panel.
💪 Built for heavy use – Initially used to stash 17,000+ tabs across 101 windows (yes, really!). It’s built to handle even extreme tab hoarders.
🔒 Privacy first – No login or network connection needed. Everything stays on YOUR computer!
🧠 Improve focus & anxiety – Created with the ADHD community in mind by someone with ADHD

▬▬▬▬▬ Future Features ▬▬▬▬▬
With support & feedback from the community, future updates may add features like:

⏪ Support for stashing/restoring history (back/forward) for each tab
💾 Option to automatically back up your current session
♻️ Automatic restore option when opening the browser after stashing all windows
⭐ Button adding stashed windows, tabs, and groups to bookmarks
📤 Ability to copy/move bookmarks into window stash
🔍 Searching stashed items
📌 Ability to stash individual tabs and groups
✅ Support for selecting multiple stashed windows, tabs, and groups to restore/delete
🔀 Moving stashed tabs and groups into different windows
📁 Create and organize multiple separate window stashes (window sets)
🕵️‍♂️ Option to stash incognito windows to a separate stash (set)
🔒 Password protection for stashes (sets), showing window content, or everything
🛡️ Encryption when storing/saving some or all data
↔️ Quickly switch between different stashes (sets)
🎯 Support for selective stashing: select from list of current windows & tabs
🔗 Share full stashes or selected stashed items
✏️ Editing labels and icons for windows, tabs, and groups
🧹 AI-assisted cleaning of stashed items
🔄 Ability to restore directly from exported stashes without loading stash
☁️ Cloud backup and auto-sync support
✨ Improve initial window names using AI
🎨 Modifying tab group color and label
🖼️ Option to stash preview images of tabs
💡 Other community-suggested features...

▬▬▬▬ Developer Message ▬▬▬▬
🙋‍♂️ As a solo software developer (and fellow tab-hoarder), I created Window Stash to tame my own browser chaos and get my laptop running faster. That worked so well (yes, those were my 17,000+ tabs) that I knew I had to share it with anyone else in the same situation. This isn’t a big corporate app – it’s a passion project, carefully crafted from my personal experience. My hope is that it helps you as much as it helped me!

😱 Installing extensions can make anyone thinking about their privacy and personal data nervous, and for good reason! Many require permissions giving them access to a lot of personal data, often without much transparency. This extension also needs access to some sensitive data, including all your tabs (for saving them). To offset this, I went overboard to ensure YOUR data never leaves YOUR device.

🤝 All this requires you to trust me, which is difficult if you don't know me. That's why I'm publicly attaching my name to this and inviting you to look me up on LinkedIn to confirm I'm a real person. I'll also be active on the support page for this extension and responding to emails, so please reach out to me if you have any questions or concerns.

🚀 My hope is that this is just the beginning of my journey bringing you extensions that are high quality, useful, and free! I hope to build a thriving community to support their continuing development, whether that's by suggesting features, reporting bugs, or occasionally donating to the projects, enabling me to spend more time developing them. To everyone helping make this a reality, Thank You!!!

Happy Stashing! 🎉
〰 Chris

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christopheraschmitz (joined in 2006, identity validated over a year ago)
Email: [email protected]