Session Stash: Save browser tabs with one click | Tom McFarlin

“I have too many tabs open” or “a little too many tabs in too many browser instances.” It’s a common expression for many of us.

For me, they might be for research for a project, a handful of articles that I’ll “read later” (even if I already have a “read it later” app), or just the collected debris that happened throughout the week.

Then I get asked for an update. Maybe it’s the browser itself or maybe the operating system. Anyway, both require a restart and while I read “we will restore your tabs after the restart” I find this doesn’t happen consistently.

Maybe PEBKAC. However, if that is the case, EBKAC may also be the solution.

The core problem is this: closing everything means losing context. Of course, it is possible to bookmark each tab individually, but that is annoying. I could use a session manager extension, but most do way more than I need.

So I built Session Stash.

What it does

Session Stash is a browser extension that saves all your open tabs to your bookmarks bar with one click. That’s it. No accounts, no syncing, no complicated user interface.

When you click (or press Alt+Shift+S), It:

• Creates a timestamp folder in your bookmarks bar
• Organizes tabs by window
• Filters internal browser pages such as chrome:// And brave://
• Shows a notification confirming how many tabs have been saved

The result is a folder like “Tabs – January 26, 2026 3:45 PM” with subfolders for each window. If you accidentally double-click or try to save again in a few minutes, you will first be asked to confirm.

Why not the Chrome Web Store?

I’m not posting this in the Chrome Web Store. Google charges a $5 developer fee for listing extensions, and I’m not interested in distributing something that doesn’t generate any revenue for me and isn’t likely to gain traction with more than a dozen (or fewer) users.

Instead of, Session Stash is available directly from GitHub. You download a zip fileunzip it and load it as an unzipped extension. It takes about 30 seconds and you don’t have to be technical to do it.

Get it

Session Stash works on Brave, Chrome and other Chromium-based browsers. It’s on GitHub where you will find it installation instructions and the latest edition.

It’s MIT licensed, so do with it what you want.