Session Restore: Auto Save & Recover Tabs

Auto-save open windows, recover closed tabs, and restore sessions without RAM lag. 100% offline crash recovery & tab history.

# Session Restore: Auto Save & Recover Tabs | Continuous History & Crash Recovery Never lose open tabs, research sessions, or project windows again. **Session Restore** is a lightning-fast, 100% private browser session manager that continuously records your browsing journey like an airplane blackbox. Recover accidentally closed windows, jump back in time to any point in the past 14 days, and restore 100+ tabs in 0.5s with zero RAM lag. Looking for a fast, 100% offline **Session Buddy, OneTab, or Toby alternative** with zero cloud logins, complete local privacy, and continuous auto-save recovery? Session Restore is purpose-built for researchers, developers, and power tab hoarders. --- ### ⚡ Why Session Restore? (Continuous Tab History & Auto Save) Traditional session managers only take occasional manual snapshots. If your browser crashes or restarts before you hit save, your work is gone. **Session Restore operates on an event-sourcing continuum engine**: every tab creation, activation, navigation, and closure is recorded in a local mathematical interval timeline. You can jump back to any exact second in the past 14 days and resurrect your workspace in 1 click. --- ### 🚀 6 Killer Superpowers 1. ⏰ **Continuous Auto-Save Timeline (Zero Manual Snapshots)**: - Scrub through a dual-scale macro/micro timeline with a smooth 60fps needle. - Jump to any point in time (10 minutes ago, yesterday afternoon, or last week) and see the exact tabs and windows that were on your screen. - Automatic 10-minute rolling micro-commits with smart delta deduplication. 2. ⚡ **Memory-Safe 1-Click Restoration (Zero Browser Freezing)**: - Restoring 50+ tabs in legacy tools causes CPU spikes and freezes your browser. - Session Restore restores tabs using native browser `discarded: true` hibernation. Tabs appear instantly in your tab strip with original favicons and titles, while memory and network loading are deferred until you actually click them. Restore 100+ tabs in 0.5 seconds! 3. 🔒 **100% Offline Local-First Privacy (The True Session Buddy Alternative)**: - Zero cloud servers, zero account sign-ups, and zero tracking scripts. - All tab URLs, titles, and timestamps stay strictly inside your local browser IndexedDB sandbox. Your browsing history belongs exclusively to you. 4. 🛡️ **Instant Crash Recovery & Closed Window Shield**: - Accidentally closed a window with 30 research tabs? Browser crashed during an OS update? - The Closed Window Shield automatically captures closed windows and preserves them in your timeline. Recover any lost window with 1 click. 5. 📊 **Swiss Minimal Continuum Studio & Focus Insights**: - Open the full-screen Continuum Studio with a single click on the extension icon. - Visual window matrix organized by accent colors and domain badges. - **Dwell Time Tracking**: See which tabs you actually spent focused time reading vs tabs you left idling. - **Instant Search & Domain Grouping**: Find any tab instantly across windows and timestamps. 6. 📦 **Hybrid Bookmark Launchpad (.html) & Multi-Format Export**: - **Standalone Hybrid Launchpad**: Export workspaces into a zero-server, dark-mode interactive HTML file. Works as an offline dashboard AND imports natively into Safari, Firefox, Chrome, and Edge bookmarks. - **1-Click Multi-Format Export**: Copy clean `Title - URL` lists for Slack, Notion, or Markdown. Export directly to CSV, TSV (Excel/Google Sheets), or full JSON backup bundles. --- ### 🛠️ How It Works in 3 Simple Steps 1. **Browse Naturally**: Session Restore silently and securely tracks your tab lifecycle in the background with near-zero CPU overhead. 2. **Click the Icon**: Click the Session Restore icon to open the full-screen Continuum Studio dashboard. 3. **Rewind & Restore**: Scroll the timeline to any past moment and click **Restore Window** or **Restore All** to instantly recreate that workspace in a fresh window. --- ### ⌨️ Power-User Shortcuts * Press `/` or `Cmd + K` in the Studio to instantly search through all tabs and domains. * Press `Escape` to clear search filters. --- ### 🔒 Permissions Justification * **`tabs`**: Required to read active tab URLs, titles, and favicons for timeline journaling and to restore workspaces upon request. * **`storage` & `unlimitedStorage`**: Required to store your local session history safely in your browser IndexedDB without cloud dependency. * **`alarms`**: Required for lightweight background maintenance and rolling delta compaction. * **Zero Host Permissions**: We do not request `<all_urls>` or inject external scripts into your web pages. ### 🛡️ Privacy Policy Data collection: **Strictly ZERO**. All tab URLs, page titles, favicons, and timestamps are processed and stored 100% client-side inside your local browser sandbox. No user data, telemetry PII, or browsing histories are ever transmitted to any external server.