The Fastest Ways to Save All Open Browser Tabs for Later
Tab hoarders have a strong attachment to all the open tabs in their browsers. For these people—and if you’re reading this, you’re probably one of them—open tabs serve as a combination of a read later service, bookmarks, and an RSS reader. At some point you are bound to master them all. Until then, you’ll be happy to continue keeping the tabs you opened two years ago.
That’s fine until tab overload occurs, which slows down your browser, drains your laptop or phone’s battery life, or leads to the worst-case scenario – a crash that costs you all those tabs.
To avoid these problems, consider saving all open tabs periodically. This way you can still keep them open if you want, but you’ll also have a link dump to fall back on in case something goes wrong.
How to Save Open Tabs in Safari
Apple makes it easy to save Safari tabs on iPhone and Mac.
If you have an iPhone , you can open Safari and click the tabs button in the bottom right corner of the browser window. Now press and hold the button that shows the number of open tabs. You can click “Copy Links” and paste all these links into a new note, Google Docs, or email them to yourself.
On a Mac, open Safari and click the sidebar button in the top left corner of the window. It’s to the right of the green deploy icon. On the left panel, you will see a button showing the number of open tabs. Right-click this button and select Copy Links . Now you can paste all the links at once into any text editing application or email them to yourself.
Backup open tabs in Chrome
You have two ways to quickly save all your open tabs in Google Chrome. The first is to bookmark all tabs. On Windows you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-Shift-D , and on Mac you can use Command-Shift-D. In any case, all open tabs will be saved as bookmarks in one fell swoop.
Another way is to use a Chrome extension called OneTab . Install and run this extension and it will reduce all open tabs to a list on one tab. You can then go to More > Copy Links to Clipboard to save all the links and paste them somewhere else. Alternatively, you can use the Share as Web Page option to create a page with all the links you copied. This is great if you want to share your open tabs with others.
These methods will work in all Chromium-based desktop browsers such as Brave, Edge and Opera.
In Chrome for Android, you can tap the tab switcher icon next to the address bar, and then press and hold any open tab. Now select the three dot menu, select Select Tabs , select all of them, tap the three dot menu again and select Bookmark Tabs to save them or Share Tabs to send them to other apps or people .
Keeping open tabs in Firefox
Firefox also allows you to save all your open tabs in a similar way. Press Control-Shift-D (Windows) or Command-Shift-D (Mac) to quickly bookmark them all. Alternatively, you can install OneTab for Firefox , launch it and use the links to copy or share as a web page as described above.