How to Save Chrome Tab Groups Permanently
Good news first: you probably don't need anything extra. Chrome on a computer keeps a tab group when you close it, and syncs it to your other devices when sync is on. Here is how to use that — and where it stops.
Close a group without losing it
- Right-click the group name in the tab strip.
- Choose Close group. The tabs close, the group stays saved.
- Don't choose Delete group — that removes it on every device signed in to your account.
Reopen a saved group
- Open More (the three dots, top right) › Tab groups.
- Pick the group — all of its tabs open again.
Keep groups one click away in the bookmarks bar
- Open Chrome Settings › Appearance.
- Turn on Show tab groups in bookmarks bar.
- Optional: turn on Automatically pin new tab groups to the bookmarks bar so every new group lands there by itself.
Have the same groups on every computer
- Sign in to Chrome with your Google Account.
- Turn on sync for history and tabs. Changes to groups are then saved and synced across your devices.
Steps from Chrome Help, checked October 2026. Menu names can move between Chrome versions.
Where Chrome's way stops
- A group saves and reopens as a whole. You can’t keep one page from it and let the rest go.
- A closed tab that was never in a group is only in History — and gone from there when history is cleared.
- Saved groups are a flat list: no folders inside a group, no folders of groups.
- Without sync, saved groups live on one computer only.
If you want single tabs to stay after you close them
Leap is a free Chrome sidebar where every tab you save stays put after you close it — sorted into spaces and folders, one click to open it again. It doesn't replace Chrome's tab groups; it sits next to them.