Lost all your tabs from the Great Suspender?

The Great Suspender was an open source project that was sold to an anonymous and seemingly nefarious new owner. You can read more about the whole debacle on Github.

There are however, a few cumbersome ways to recover your tabs and some alternatives that you can use in place of The Great Suspender.

Recover tabs from The Great Suspender

If you used the extension, your tabs are likely gone. However, you can try recovering them manually. Recovering tabs that you lost after google removed The Great Suspender is a matter of checking your browser history. If you haven’t cleared it recently, and everything was working properly, you can search your history by the chrome extension ID for The Great Suspender (klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg).

This is discussed on reddit and the proper steps + a FAQ are detailed on Github.

If you are left feeling abandoned, and don’t know what to do about organizing, managing, and saving your tabs now that The Great Suspender has been killed, learn about some great alternatives here.

Alternatives to The Great Suspender

SessionBuddy is a simple, popular alternative that offers a lot of similar features. It is a bit outdated and doesn’t seem to be maintained any longer, but remains a simple solution.

Partizion is a cloud tab and bookmark manager designed for productivity. It is a paid service, but that ensures that the extension + app will be maintained and improved well into the future. Your saved tabs can be restored from any chrome browser and no matter if your laptop, chrome, or otherwise crash, your saved tabs will be safe.

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