What are the best tab managers for Chrome?

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Best tab managers for Chrome	Price	Platforms	Last Updated
86 The Great Suspender	-	-	Jan 22, 2022
-- Cluster	Free	-	Oct 12, 2021
-- OneTab	-	Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Firefox	Dec 23, 2021
75 Workona	Free/Paid	-	Jan 21, 2022
-- Session Buddy	Free	-	Jan 21, 2022

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score 87 · Answer 1

The Great Suspender

Top Con

MAJOR SECURITY ISSUE: New maintainer is probably malicious

See: https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1263 https://github.com/greatsuspender/thegreatsuspender/issues/1175 See More

Top Pro

Suspends tabs preventing memory usage

IT prevents chrome from guzzling RAM by suspending tabs and making sure that whatever you are using is running at full potential. See More

MotivatedXquic's Experience

Unfortunately taken over by a malware company. See More

Top Con

This is not a tab manager

Top Pro

Customizable

Allows for some changes in its functions including changing time after it suspends a tab, adding sites to whitelists and a few other options. See More

AuthenticCihuatecayotl's Experience

malware See More

Top Con

Flagged as malware by Microsoft and Google

Top Pro

Whitelisting available by domain or URL

Quickly exclude any single web page or entire site with just a couple clicks of the mouse. This is great for domains with text fields you don't want to lose your progress in or streaming video players you don't want to lose their position in when paused for long periods of time. See More

FantasticKumarbi's Experience

malware See More

Top Pro

Saves valuable system resources by suspending tabs left open for a certain amount of time

Lucas Zapico's Experience

For tab hoarders - saves me from eventually having to force quit Chrome because I have too much open. Great product. See More

Raghu Ranganathan's Experience

A very old and reliable chrome app. Very useful, and been using it for many years. It has saved me so much time on my potato PCs that have like 512MB of RAM that chrome instantly burns. One of the most timeless and useful utility apps and one of the original few tab managers I'd seen on the web store. See More

Andrea Mueller's Experience

Great for minimizing the amount of memory Chrome uses. See More

Yanis's Experience

Cool name for a cool add-on ! See More

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score 49 · Answer 2

Cluster

Top Pro

Clean user interface

Has a clean interface with a light and dark mode. See More

Top Con

Can't edit the title of the bookmarks

You can't edit the title of the bookmarks when saved. See More

CaffeinatedHuitzilopochtli's Experience

The UX could be a little more intuitive, but overall, it's a really thoughtful and well-executed implementation of a solution that addresses a real need. Not sure how I ever used Chrome without it. See More

Top Pro

Ability to toggle a two-column view to efficiently use screen real estate and see all your tabs in a glance

Top Con

It doesn't save tabs automatically

Nathan R's Experience

Cluster is an amazing tool for organizing tabs. The extension provides a ton of handy features to make you more organized. I especially like the drag and drop feature as you can rearrange tabs or move them to new windows easily. Cluster also includes a window suspend feature which helps reduce the memory usage of Chrome. Many window managers are slow when opening saved windows, but due to the fast restore feature in Cluster, the extension quickly opens hundreds of tabs without any load. I would recommend Cluster to anyone who wants an awesome tab manager that can help them become more organized. See More

Top Pro

Drag & Drop

Ability to move tabs to different places or windows using drag and drop. See More

Top Con

Syncing requires license

To enable syncing between browsers, you have to purchase a $9.80 license. See More

Ben's Experience

After I lost all my tabs with OneTab •again• I am now switching to Cluster and it is awesome! Love the dark mode <3 See More

Top Pro

Window merge

You can merge multiple windows together into one window. See More

AwareByggvir's Experience

After I lost all my tabs with OneTab •again• I am now switching to Cluster and it is awesome! Love the dark mode <3 See More

Top Pro

Exporting

Lets you export and import windows as .CSV and .JSON files. See More

Top Pro

Multiple sorting options

You can sort the tabs by ascending, descending, and domain. See More

Top Pro

Removes duplicates

Has an option to automatically remove duplicate tabs. See More

Top Pro

Searching

Ability to search through tabs. See More

Top Pro

Suspend tabs

Ability to suspend the selected tab(s). See More

Top Pro

Ability to move one or more tabs between windows at a time

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score 29 · Answer 3

OneTab

Top Pro

Easy and reliable

Top Con

Sync not available

Sync would be a great addition as the html page generation is an heavy process and can be buggy over 1,000 links and the copy/past isn't really convenient. See More

SophisticatedMercury's Experience

Lost all of my tabs after restarting my computer. No warning and no history or anything to dig through to figure it out. Worse, the export option doesn't actually export a file, it just gives you a list that you copy/paste into a document somewhere. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Firefox

Top Pro

Provides just enough information

OneTab provides just the right amount of meta-info about the tabs you've saved. It groups them by session, and tells you how many tabs are in each session, as well as the date the session was created. Every saved tab includes the bookmarked favicon and page title. See More

Top Con

Can get messy

The OneTab tab has everything in a list format with just simple headings describing what you have in this or that list. It isn't comfortable to manage it when you have quite a lot of tabs in there. See More

Dan Jay's Experience

OneTab saved me from "Tabs Hell" in Chrome that used to cause pc to nonresponsive. It's great I can stop freezing my pc by clicking on the OneTab Icon. I love this. For further info check out my post relative to this experience. https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-maximum-number-of-tabs-open-in-Google-or-Computer/answer/Dan-Jay-2 See More

Top Pro

Overall very useful

It takes all of your tabs (choose between all/all-except-current/current/all-to-right/all-to-left) and turns them into links in a special OneTab tab where you can further manage your tabs by dividing them into groups, removing duplicates and securing them so that they can't be removed unless unsecured. See More

Top Con

Data loss

For no reason. See More

SupportiveErimon's Experience

Lost all my stored tabs, no recovery. See More

Top Pro

Management & sharing of saved sessions

OneTab makes it very easy to restore, delete, share, lock, rename, and favorite your saved tab sessions. OneTab also makes it easy to share, export and import URLs into your OneTab dashboard as a whole. See More

Top Con

Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

This is not so much a con as much as it is a heads up for those who use OneTab as a form of transient digital bookmarking (like me!). When you click on a tab/link in any given OneTab session, that will cause it to disappear from the list of tabs in that section. It would be nice if there was an interim period or separate place where the link is still visible/accessible. That or it would be nice to have a version history of past closed tabs/links and sessions. See More

ChattyEuphrosyne's Experience

I thought, a couple of years ago, that this was an excellent product - until it lost ALL of its data. Reinstalled but the same thing happened a few weeks later. Very disappointed. See More

Top Pro

Non-invasive

The OneTab dashboard only appears the first time you open your browser after quitting, although you can also make it appear through the extension button in the extensions bar. This is less invasive behavior than the Chrome extensions that appear every time you open a new browser tab. See More

Top Con

Slightly confusing UX

It's easy to forget that clicking on the OneTab button in the extensions bar doesn't show you options – it saves your current session by closing all your tabs in the given browser window. That might be slightly annoying if you were trying to access the OneTab dashboard or view OneTab options instead of trying to save your current session in OneTab, but this is only a minor inconvenience given how easy it is to restore your session. See More

Top Con

No option to send group of multiple selected tabs to OneTab in extension button.

You can't group select multiple tabs and send it directly to OneTab. Either move group and use send tabs to the right/left on the tab before/after . Or decouple group in new window and click button to send all tabs from focused window. Or even worse, one by one. Very annoying problem that's very easily solved. See More

Top Con

Data loss

When you run ccleaner or CleanMyMac, all OneTab data may vanish. See More

Top Con

This is the second time I lost all my tabs for no reason. No upgrades, updates etc that would have caused it. Will not give it another chance to lose them all. I wasted a lot of time trying to retrieve them.

Top Con

Often crashes

Every so often, when a browser crashes, upon reopening that browser, OneTab will STOP working properly! From then on, it may place newly closed/saved tabs into older sessions in the list! See More

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score 101 · Answer 4

Workona

Top Pro

Effortless organization

Intuitive UI. Minimal ramp-up. See More

Top Con

Worst than alternatives

HumorousCharon's Experience

Too expensive See More

Top Pro

Efficient use of System Resources

It seems to be well written and in no way bogs my system. See More

Top Con

Paid

For free accounts, you can only have 5 personal workspaces and 3 shared workspaces. See More

TrustworthyHesperus's Experience

Prices are way too expensive for causal personal use See More

Top Pro

Incorporates tasks, notes, and collaboration

Plus: auto save, sharing permissions, various modes for organization, tab suspension, (optional!) new tab, layout switching, multi-platform, file attachments, most web apps supported, and its actively developed and updated with new features. With some ingenuity and a few extra extensions, I've even included my local directory resources in my client workspaces with in-place editing. See More

Top Con

Application concept changing all the time

They still seem to be searching heavily for their vision of productivity focussed tab management. Big changes in user interface have occured in the last years. The UI is more complex than needed and it is not clear what they want to achieve. See More

TrustworthyAura's Experience

Generally useless See More

Top Pro

Works seamlessly across multiple monitors and browser instances

Top Con

Duplicating and loosing windows and tabs

Sometimes window sessions are duplicated and have to be merged by hand. More than once sessions and tabs have been lost. Mostly because it couldn't cope with Chrome restarting. Once also because the backend was updated and it went wrong. Workona has not at all proven to be reliable. See More

AdaptableHachiman's Experience

If you do a lot of research, learn on the fly, manage others, or you're just sick of your browser's bookmarks, try Workona. I've tried a bunch of tab managers (maybe dozens) as I've stumbled my way through social distancing and virtual teamwork in my small business. I settled on Workona because the interface is local (fast), the data is in the cloud (sync/backup) and the developers keep the features coming. Cloud based managers are just too slow for most people at work. Teamsync Bookmarks was off to a good start for syncing team resources, but when Edge (for Work) started syncing extensions it was too much trouble to stop duplicates. Other extensions will sometimes conflict with Workona, so I use SimlpeExtManager to turn off known offenders as needed. Now that tasks and notes are added (how can you really manage a session without that?), I'm gonna say it's a keeper. Hopefully, they won't try to do it all and will let us integrate with our own task apps. I would also like to see customization options like themes, webframes & embedded content (say, for monitoring dashboards, chat, and sharepoint). I've managed to combine a few other extensions and get Workona to link to network shares and even edit in place. That cost me a night of sleep and two pots of coffee, so maybe they could make it easier? One last point.. as others have pointed out, the free version is limited to 10 workspaces. Each workspace can do a lot, and learning to use less is to your benefit. So is upgrading. Besides, you'd gladly pay more if you knew what it can do for your (organization, focus, workflow, training, management, many hats, sanity...) See More

Top Pro

Very responsive

There is nearly no lag between multiple instances. See More

Top Con

Doesn't always play well with others

Even though most of the bugs and glitches are a result of conflicts with other extensions or browser features (e.g. edge rolling our new tab management features)... it takes a lot of trial an error to figure out what works. Some feedback by way of a useful error message would help. See More

Froggy Boggins's Experience

This product completely changed the way I use the internet - for the better. Effortless organization. It is that life-changing. It treats browser tabs as resources and finally provides me with a way to organize them by project effectively and easily. See More

Rafiki Ali's Experience

Are you kidding?! There couldn't possibly be a serious conversation being had ANYWHERE on the planet about whether this is the most superior Tab Manager available!! Okay, hyperbole aside, this is far and away the greatest Tab Manager and life-giver of an app I have ever experienced (in the last week)! It works as advertised and (almost as if designed specifically for me) flawlessly fits my workflow. In the course of the two hours that it has taken me to wrangle my over 100 open browser tabs across multiple screens and devices, I have become a God of organized chaos and purchased at least 3-hours per week of my life back! See More

NeighborlySuleviae's Experience

The best tab manager as 2019, it's incredible! See More

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score 20 · Answer 5

Session Buddy

Top Pro

Save groups of tabs under whatever label to check out later

Tab hoarders dream - have a set of tabs that have fallen to the waste side, open Session Buddy, save the group under a label and go back at your leisure. See More

Top Con

No sync with cloud

Lucas Zapico's Experience

As I fall down the rabbit hole that is the internet. I use session buddy to keep my research organized so I can stay on track. workflow example: Problem to solve Reseach problem - open a bunch of tabs on the subject - when the loose pertinence or are cluttering (save them as a session if they may still have value) Reseach solution - open a bunch of tabs to get a broad overview to find the best possible solution given constraints - attempt solution - save rest to session buddy in case I need to revisit. Why do the same research twice? See More

Top Pro

Export/Import features

These allow you to save on a flash drive. See More

Top Con

No automatic backup, only manual

Nathan R's Experience

Session Buddy has a clean user interface and is a great program for managing many tabs. The ability to name groups of tabs is very useful and helps me become more organized. Compared to some other tab managers, Session Buddy has a cleaner and more organized interface. Session Buddy is a great task manager that will help you organize all of your tabs. See More

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score 33 · Answer 6

toby

Top Con

Cannot export to file

Top Pro

Syncs your tabs cross-platform

Create an account and sync your tabs cross-platform. See More

SpontaneousKyrbas's Experience

I've got a tab problem. So much so, my dog's name is "Tab" as a pun for the number of tabs I would have open. :D Toby gives me exactly what I want. The ability to keep tabs, organize them, and even share them, without killing my system performance. Now I can have 72 tabs "open" but only "see" 5-7 of them. No more miraculous tab-mountain-ranges at the top of my view, but now I can actually read some titles! See More

Top Con

Cannot reorder lists or collapse lists of tabs

Top Pro

Clear the clutter

StrongPabilsag's Experience

It's not a tab manager, it's a bookmark manager See More

Top Con

Requires account sign-up for advanced features

Top Pro

Pause and resume work

Top Con

Cannot import from an older tabs manager

It would be great if Toby allowed a mechanism to import tabs from other tools like OneTab. See More

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score 15 · Answer 7

Tabli

Top Con

Naming of a group of tabs doesn't work

Can't select and change the suggested name. See More

Top Pro

Fuzzy quick search feature

ResoluteAdapa's Experience

Don't know how to get support and the naming of a group of tabs function rarely works. On Mac Big Sur 11.6 with latest version of Chrome as of Sept 30 2021 See More

Top Pro

Use native Chrome bookmarks for saving tabs

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score 16 · Answer 8

tabmanager.io

Add Video or Image

score 23 · Answer 9

tabXpert

Top Pro

History of closed windows and tabs

Top Con

Cannot share sessions or remote access them

TrustworthyAura's Experience

Not FREE See More

Top Pro

Drag-and-drop tabs

Top Con

Doesn't have bookmark support, not FREE

MerryChicomecoatl's Experience

I tried so many tab managers and I am so glad I finally found this one! It's organized interface makes it very easy to use. I love how you can name your windows and how it automatically saves everything as I work. I now longer have to worry about accidentally exiting my tabs. The sync feature across multiple devices is also a huge plus. The only thing I wish it had was the ability to add subfolders to closed windows to further organize your tabs for later access. See More

Top Pro

Real-time window and tab management

DebonairZhongliQuan's Experience

It has all the features I was looking for, it is intuitive, it allows me to export the tab's links into a file that, in a worst-case scenario, I can read and recover the websites... Just loving it! Productivity increased substantially! :) See More

Top Pro

It's free for local usage

StrongPabilsag's Experience

With tabXpert you don't need to save anything - it's all saved automatically. Just create a new window for a new topic, that's it. See More

Top Pro

Real-time sync with cloud

Top Pro

You can export the tab's links into a file

Even if the app is discontinued, this will let you recover them. See More

Top Pro

You can name your windows

Top Pro

The Great Suspender support

The Great Suspender has been removed from chrome store as malware. See More

Top Pro

Hot tabs accessible via shortcuts

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score 12 · Answer 10

Tabs Outliner

Top Con

Complicated

Clumsy and complicated interface. See More

Top Pro

Tabs Outliner is great at organization of tabs

Even though the experience is not streamlined, it's still worth checking out. See More

EarnestJustitia's Experience

It's been the backbone of my browsing, creativity and work since 2013 - for almost a decade! Life-changing, so glad I found it back then. Lots of functionality: I can overview, manage, organize (group and label tabs and windows), duplicate anything, and add notes. And the paid version is a one-time payment and well worth it. See More

Top Con

Can't search old trees (files) without opening them individually

Top Pro

Reliable, trustworthy and safe

Has barely any problems (on Windows and Linux), help from the developer easy to get. See More

ChattyAnput's Experience

It's great, although the tutorial needs to be updated since it's written in rather broken English. Also, the user interface is unnecessarily complicated though still functional. See More

Top Con

Need to start a new 'tree' (file) when it becomes too big for performance

Thankfully it's gonna take a long time before you need to start over (many months even for those using a very old laptop and browsing throughout the day) and you can bring content from your old trees into new ones (old trees can be stores locally or in Google Drive btw). See More

Top Pro

Powerful - interface and learning curve can seem like a lot but they're not and serve you well

PleasantIzanagi's Experience

I've used many tab manager extensions for Chrome and IMHO Tabs Outliner is by far the best. It looks a little confusing at first, but it really just looks that way. When used with 'The Great Suspender', it will open a line in a tree structure for every tab you open. And if you like, for every tab you will ever open. When you save and close it, you can reopen any combination of tabs you want. And of course any new tabs. My records contain thousands of tabs. Some are well sorted and organized. Some are not. You can move and set up the tab record structure any way you want. And the organization will be as good as you make it. See More

Top Pro

Add notes and labels to any groups, windows and labels

Lots of organization functionality and freedom. You can use emojis as group icons too. You can also duplicate anything. See More

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score 23 · Answer 11

OneTab Pro

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score 8 · Answer 12

Flowbar

Top Pro

Fast, clean user interface

RespectfulBrea's Experience

So useful! I really needed this in my life to clear up my tabs. I mostly use it for recipes so I love the note feature because I'm always tweaking what I cook and would never remember otherwise. See More

Top Pro

Can save One tab or Multiple Tabs into folders

Top Pro

Abiility to add notes

Top Pro

Mobile compatible

Top Pro

Free!

Top Pro

Save all open tabs instantly to remove clutter and free up memory.

Top Pro

Drag & Drop Tabs

You can drag & drop saved tabs between sub groups See More

Top Pro

Mark important links

Top Pro

Syncs on the cloud

So you can reach all your saved tabs across different computers. See More

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score 3 · Answer 13

Sidewise Tree Style Tabs

Top Pro

Real Tab manager

Handle hundreds of tab in multiple windows, hibernation, organize tabs in folders, sessions saved automatically See More

Top Con

Does not save sessions

Top Pro

Simple

Simple and intuitive. See More

Top Con

Beta

Top Pro

Notepad

Notepad as in Opera. See More

Top Pro

Hibernate

Can hibernate tabs and branches. See More

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score 1 · Answer 14

Tab Manager

Add Video or Image

score 1 · Answer 15

TooManyTabs for Chrome

Top Pro

Easy sync via Google Drive

Top Con

UI is quite cluttered

score 2 · Answer 16

tabzen

Top Pro

Save tabs and restore later

Top Pro

Organize tabs in folders

Top Pro

Search tabs

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score 1 · Answer 17

Partizion

Top Pro

Web app + Chrome extension

Manage your work + tabs from the extension or dashboard (webapp). See More

SuccinctAzimua's Experience

Beautiful interface, easy to use extension, and powerful dashboard for organizing your work/tabs See More

Top Pro

Syncs to the cloud

Automatically syncs across all devices. See More

ArticulateBassareus's Experience

Partizion is a refreshing approach to tab management in chrome. Everything is beautifully designed and simple to use. Powerful features are packed in. See More

Top Pro

Separate your work

You can easily separate and organize your work (Personal vs. Work vs. Side project) in Partizion. No other tab managers take this into account. See More

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score 1 · Answer 18

BrainTool

Top Pro

Editable notes

Every link can have its own editable and changeable notes. See More

AffableMaat's Experience

I've looked at many alternatives - TabsOutliner, Session Buddy, Toby etc. This one is unique and IMO the best. See More

Top Pro

Privacy

No data is stored anywhere other than in your browser and a linked text file. See More

Top Pro

Browser control

Open and close set of tabs by topic into their own tab groups or windows. See More

Top Pro

Writes to a text file

All your data is always accessible and editable with other tools. See More

Top Pro

Personalized nested Topic tree

You can set up your own hierarchal topic tree thats readily editable with keyboard and drag and drop. See More

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score 2 · Answer 19

Saka

Top Con

Not updating sessions realtime

Top Pro

Also works in Firefox

Top Pro

Free and open-source

Plugins can be hard to trust sometimes, but this one does have a GitHub repo with source code. See More

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score 1 · Answer 20

Tab Session Manager

Top Pro

Extensive features

SpontaneousAchelous's Experience

Extensive features See More

29 Options Considered

My Recommendation for The Great Suspender

My Recommendation for The Great Suspender

MAJOR SECURITY ISSUE: New maintainer is probably malicious

Suspends tabs preventing memory usage

This is not a tab manager

Customizable

Flagged as malware by Microsoft and Google

Whitelisting available by domain or URL

Saves valuable system resources by suspending tabs left open for a certain amount of time

My Recommendation for Cluster

My Recommendation for Cluster

Clean user interface

Can't edit the title of the bookmarks

Ability to toggle a two-column view to efficiently use screen real estate and see all your tabs in a glance

It doesn't save tabs automatically

Drag & Drop

Syncing requires license

Window merge

Exporting

Multiple sorting options

Removes duplicates

Searching

Suspend tabs

Ability to move one or more tabs between windows at a time

My Recommendation for OneTab

My Recommendation for OneTab

Easy and reliable

Sync not available

Provides just enough information

Can get messy

Overall very useful

Data loss

Management & sharing of saved sessions

Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

Non-invasive

Slightly confusing UX

No option to send group of multiple selected tabs to OneTab in extension button.

Data loss

This is the second time I lost all my tabs for no reason. No upgrades, updates etc that would have caused it. Will not give it another chance to lose them all. I wasted a lot of time trying to retrieve them.

Often crashes

My Recommendation for Workona

My Recommendation for Workona

Effortless organization

Worst than alternatives

Efficient use of System Resources

Paid

Incorporates tasks, notes, and collaboration

Application concept changing all the time

Works seamlessly across multiple monitors and browser instances

Duplicating and loosing windows and tabs

Very responsive

Doesn't always play well with others

My Recommendation for Session Buddy

My Recommendation for Session Buddy

Save groups of tabs under whatever label to check out later

No sync with cloud

Export/Import features

No automatic backup, only manual

My Recommendation for toby

My Recommendation for toby

Cannot export to file

Syncs your tabs cross-platform

Cannot reorder lists or collapse lists of tabs

Clear the clutter

Requires account sign-up for advanced features

Pause and resume work

Cannot import from an older tabs manager

My Recommendation for Tabli

My Recommendation for Tabli

Naming of a group of tabs doesn't work

Fuzzy quick search feature

Use native Chrome bookmarks for saving tabs

My Recommendation for tabmanager.io

My Recommendation for tabmanager.io

My Recommendation for tabXpert

My Recommendation for tabXpert

History of closed windows and tabs

Cannot share sessions or remote access them

Drag-and-drop tabs