Chrome Tabs Are Not Restoring? How to Force Them

Use the good old keyboard shortcut to restore Chrome tabs

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Have you ever accidentally closed a tab on your browser, but when you went to restore it quickly, you couldn’t? Well, Chrome users have this as the latest headache. And while Google has built a fairly robust and powerful backup system, there are some obvious shortcomings.

Of course, you can alwaysenable Chrome’s memory saverto avoid having to close tabs, but other factors can still raise this issue. If you have tried restoring your Chrome tabs, but it seems impossible, we’re here to make it easier for you.

Why did my tabs not restore?

If you’ve been using Google Chrome for a while, you probably know that you can restore your previous session. This feature is helpful if you close your browser accidentally or want to open up a website you were visiting earlier.

However, this is not always a guarantee. Possible reasons for this include:

How do I force Chrome to restore tabs?

A few basic checks to perform before any advanced solutions include:

1. Restore from Taskbar

This can be a tedious exercise if you have a lot of tabs open and are only looking to restore one. If you only want to reopen one or two tabs, proceed to the next step.

2. Restore from history

3. Bookmark all tabs

The downside to this method is that if you open hundreds of tabs in a day, you can imagine the number of bookmarks that will be saved. Bookmarks are ideally created to save a handful of your most visited sites or sites you want to return to, then remove them once you’re done.

Having such a high number of bookmarks can cause serious performance degradation on your Chrome browser. This is because it takes quite a significant amount of space, and you may notice some lag and freezing.

4. Restore from Journeys

This method of reopening closed tabs is more appropriate in situations where your search history is a bit all over the place, and you’ve accumulated a lot of history.

Journeys groups your tabs based on similar topics and based on the most recent searches. This way, you can easily jump to a section and click a tab to reopen.

So, there you have it. A Chrome browser crash can be scary, but it doesn’t have to be. With the above solutions, you can easily reopen closed tabs.

Elsewhere, you may experience an issue whereChrome keeps opening a new tab with every click. If so, worry not, as we have already covered various ways to counter this problem.

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Chrome Tabs Are Not Restoring? How to Force Them#

Why did my tabs not restore?#

How do I force Chrome to restore tabs?#

1. Restore from Taskbar#

2. Restore from history#

3. Bookmark all tabs#

4. Restore from Journeys#