Saving and Restoring
What are Saves?
Saves let you put away a group of tabs, a window, or a full browsing session and bring it back later.
Saved items live in your browser bookmarks, which means they can follow you to other devices if your browser syncs bookmarks.
Saving something for later
Save a tab group:
- Right-click the tab group header in the tab list.
- Select “Save tab group”.
This is useful when a group has become a small workspace, such as research tabs for a project.
Save a window:
- From the tab list (when viewing “All windows”), right-click the window header and select “Save window”.
- From the Top Bar, open the save menu next to the window selector and select “Save current window”.
- From the window selector, hover over the window you want to save and click the bookmark icon.
Save a session:
- Open the save menu next to the window selector in the Top Bar.
- Select “Save session”.
Use this when you want to preserve your entire browsing session across all open windows.
Finding your saves
- Open the Saves modal from the bookmark icon in the Top Bar.
- Your saves appear as Collections.
- Click a collection to see what’s inside.
- Use the Back button in the modal header to return to the previous level.
Older saves may appear under Legacy collections. If Tab Shelf shows a migration prompt, choose Migrate to Collections to move them into the current Collections area.
Restoring a collection
- Open Saves.
- Find the collection you want to restore.
- Hover over it and open Restore options.
- Choose whether to restore it in this window or in a new window.
You can also right-click a saved collection to open the same restore options.
Choosing how grouped tabs are restored
When restoring a saved item that includes tab groups, Restore options lets you choose how much structure to keep:
- As saved restores the tabs with their saved grouping intact.
- As a single group opens all the saved tabs together in one new tab group.
- Without grouping opens the saved tabs as regular ungrouped tabs.
Choose “As saved” to resume exactly where you left off. Choose “Without grouping” when you only need the pages and don’t want the old structure.
Restoring a whole window or session
Saved windows can be restored into the current window or into a new window.
Saved sessions may also offer Open all windows separately, which recreates each saved window as its own browser window.
Restoring a single saved tab
- Open a saved collection.
- Find the tab you want.
- Hover over it or right-click it.
- Choose Restore in this window or Restore in new window.
Renaming, copying, and deleting saves
For saved collections and folders, hover over a row or right-click it to find:
- Rename to give the saved item a clearer name.
- Copy URLs to copy all the links inside it.
- Delete to remove it.
For an individual saved tab, the menu includes Copy URL and Delete.
More things you can do in Saves
- Use Filter to choose which kinds of saved items are shown.
- Use Sort to order saves by name, date added, or manual order when available.
- Select multiple saves to copy their URLs or delete them together.
- In Background display mode, use Select Tabs to choose tabs to save from the compact menu.