Manage your browsing session easily with FreshStart! If you have different sets of websites that matter to you at work, at home or at different times, or if you have multiple users, you should give this a try!
Features
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NEW in 1.6! Multiple auto-save sessions
– Details at http://goo.gl/ADqYT
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– Save multiple windows into a single session
– Save all open tabs to a new session, or hand select what to be saved
– Sessions are saved in the “FreshStart Sessions” folder in bookmarks, allowing you to synchronize it with other computers
– Crash recovery – autosave your windows every few minutes
– Restore a session in a new window, or merge it with the current window by ctrl-click (Windows, Linux) or cmd-click (Mac).
– Session editing and easily merge new tabs into existing sessions
– Export and import sessions
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Worked at first, but quickly stopped working.. don’t know why
Works great, exactly as advertised though id love an option to mass delete sessions from within the extension but there is a workaround. Go to bookmarks and open the Freshstart session folder, hold CTRL (or equivalent for mac) and click on all the sessions you want to delete.
Well it would be nice if thumbinal wouldn’t be missleading. You can’t color tabs with this ext. which is function that I’m looking for so….
Wonderful extension! It helps organize working and personal tab groups, switch between computers and several times rescued a lot of hours by Crash Recovery feature. Thanks to developers!
Needs a responsive GUI. If not all is rendered then the part non rendered is never available even with scroll. Horizontally.
needs search
I have been using this extension for years. This time I installed it on Microsoft Edge and voila, all my saved sessions were available. I had been loving this extension but now it proved to be GRRRREAT
funzionale, rapido e facile da usare. consigliatissimo
Today my data was no longer accessible, the small window did no longer open when clicking on the icon. Even when it did, there was no automatic save (I configured it), but when done by hand, at least that worked. Needed is also an option to enlarge that small window, especially on large screens it is near impossible to use.
Good concept. Serious flaws.
Every time I open a session it loads all pages at the same time slowing down my computer and internet. I have a fast computer and fast internet connection, but loading dozens of tabs at the same time is too much,
Another flaw is the fact that saving a session you have to type in the name, it will pick the wrong name automatically. You can see many duplicate sessions with the same name. You have to save manually, because autosave only does its job once every minute max.
Crash recovery constantly turning off, but when it’s on, no sessions saved anyway.
Unfortunately the extension does not work in the Brave browser, so it is not usable for me.
Overall I like this extension and I use it more than a year now. I have over 100 sessions saved with it many of which consist of more than one window. I add up tabs to a certain session save it with the current date stamp and delete the old session. The only thing I’m missing is cross browser functionality and specifically to Firefox. As many have pointed out – this feature is missing. I’m an old fan of Firefox and now that it’s back with speed and exceptional privacy protection I wanted to migrate … problem. I could edit the imported bookmarks on Firefox but it would take too long. Notepadd++ won’t help neither. Stuck. Pitty. I’ll probably migrate and spend the time but then I’m never going to use FreshStart again for the trouble it caused me.
Suggestion – Maybe you would like make FreshStart a kind of Open Source extension and have it a true cross browser solution. THIS would be great. Anyway – Thank you for all your effort !!!
Отличное и полезное расширение.
was working well until it didn’t and I lost all the saved sessions for the last 3 years. Wrote a message for the developer, but did not get a message back for the past 2 months. Gave up. good luck to others!
absolutely exceptional. thank you very much
the only thing i use this extension for is off by default: the crash recovery feature. when chrome updates, or even the extension itself, it switches back to off without telling me or asking if i want it on again by default. fix it please! at least add a feature to recognise what setting it was set to in the last session! i keep constantly losing dozens of tabs because of this!
THE BEST! Розширення.
Можна експортувати\імпортувати окремі сесії,
Також при експорті настройок Хрома зберігаються всі сесії,
після імпорта знаходяться в Закладках (Виконаний імпорт)
Any chance to implement search function? By page URL fragment or when i save session and give it name (for example “games for my kids” – it would be nic to search it by “games” “kids” or page URL address saved as one of tabs. With this option would be great. I got saved about 100 essions and never can easy find what i need:)
Not really a “Cross Browser” tool. It only works with chrome. Would be great to have a firefox version.
Besides from that though, this is an excellent session manager extension and is very useful since chrome has absolutely horrible session management which FreshStart rectifies. Only thing that concerns me is the lack of updates, but the extension continues to work (as of writing this).
I have since switched to Session Buddy since (IMO) it has a better interface, although one thing it does lack is cloud syncing (storing session tabs in Bookmarks) which FreshStart does have.
So, if cloud syncing is what you need, then FreshStart is the way to go.
Other alternatives (there are a LOT of these): Toby for Chrome (or Toby Mini… I wouldn’t trust a service that requires you to log into an external account), Tab Wrangler, Tabs Outliner, OneTab, Infinite Tabs Manager, Folderwise Bookmarks, TabHamster, Flowbar…
Other useful extensions to use in combination with FreshStart: Tab Manager Plus
This has been a life saver so many times I can no longer count them. It has never failed to save my sessions and after each of numerous browser crashes restore my tabs. The built in tab restore feature fails most of the time which is why I went looking for this. What a great extension with lots of additional features to help you organize your sessions.
Crash recovery isn’t saving every 5 min. In fact it is not saving continuously at all.
Una delle estensioni più belle di Chorme. Assolutamente un must. Grazie agli sviluppatori.
Ищю автосохранение и, желательно при закрытии. Не нашел этой опции.
Urgente, creo qu encontre un problema, y es que cuado active el crash recovery, de ahi en adelante tuve problemas serios con mi disco duro, se colgaba la pc y desaparecia el disco D, entonce desactive el crash recovery y terminaron los problemas.
I like the ability to select which tabs to save to a session and the export / import ability.
Aesthetically I don’t like the UI and the colors. I would suggest to try to keep it simple and clean.
Great. Thanks.