Tab Pouch

Your tabs, safely pouched.

A dead-simple Chrome extension that saves all your browser tabs as named sessions and restores them with one click. Built for developers and researchers who regularly have 15+ tabs open.

Features

• Save sessions — capture all tabs in your current window with a custom name
• Restore sessions — reopen all tabs in a new window, non-destructively
• Delete sessions — remove old sessions you no longer need
• Persistent storage — sessions survive browser restarts
• Minimal permissions — only requests storage and tabs, no network access

Install

From source

git clone https://github.com/Boscoeuk/tab-pouch.git
cd tab-pouch
npm install
npm run build

Then load in Chrome:

1. Go to chrome://extensions
2. Enable Developer mode
3. Click Load unpacked
4. Select the dist/ folder

From zip

npm run package

This creates tab-pouch.zip ready for Chrome Web Store submission or manual install.

Development

npm run dev      # Watch mode — rebuilds on file changes
npm run build    # Production build
npm run package  # Build + create extension.zip

Tech Stack

• Chrome Extension Manifest V3
• Vanilla JavaScript (ES modules)
• Vite build
• chrome.storage.local (no backend, no external requests)

Constraints

• Only storage and tabs permissions
• 20 session max (prevents storage overflow)
• Filters non-restorable URLs (chrome://, file://, etc.)
• Bundle size: ~67KB

License

MIT