Save a window, or every window, and close it knowing each tab is one search away. Restore it later with tabs that load only when you click them. Promote the good ones into a bookmark folder. Your tabs are written to this device and nowhere else.
Free. Open source. The Sessions widget is optional and asks for the tabs permission only when you add it.
Every button in the widget is one line here. None of them involves a server, because there is none.
| You click | Fogar does | It lives |
|---|---|---|
| Save, or Save & close | Writes each tab’s title and address to Chrome’s extension storage, drops duplicate addresses, and names the session after the date and its top sites.Then, if you asked, closes the windows, the one you are in last, so the save is on disk before the page goes. | This device |
| Search | Ranks every saved tab and every tab open right now by title, site, session name, and address.Every word has to land somewhere. Open tabs come first, because switching to one beats reopening it. | This device |
| Restore | Reopens the window. The first tab loads; the rest are created discarded.Twenty tabs do not fetch twenty pages. Each one loads when you click it. | Your browser |
| Bookmark | Copies a tab, or a whole session, into a folder under Other bookmarks named after the session.Addresses already in that folder are skipped. A filled bookmark icon means the link is kept somewhere already. | Your bookmarks |
| Export | A Markdown list, a bookmarks file any browser imports, or a Fogar file that restores.One session or all of them. Or copy the links to the clipboard. | A file you own |
Sessions ride along in the backup under Settings. No request leaves the browser for any of this.
Add widget, then Sessions. Chrome asks for the tabs permission, which it labels “Read your browsing history”. Fogar reads the titles and addresses of open tabs, only while the widget is on the page, and never your history.
optional permission · asked once, when you add the widgetOne window, or every window except the one you are in. Duplicates collapse. The list of open windows doubles as a switcher: click a window’s name to bring it to the front.
named from the date and the top sites · rename any timeType in the widget’s search box, or in the ask box on any new tab, where saved tabs appear under your bookmarks as you type. Open hits switch; saved hits reopen.
open tabs first · then saved · one click either wayThe rest of Fogar is a new tab that answers from a model running in your browser. See what leaves in each mode.
That is Chrome’s label for the tabs permission, the only way an extension can see the titles and addresses of open tabs. Fogar reads open tabs, not history, and only while the Sessions widget is on the page. The permission is optional: nothing else in Fogar asks for it.
Only if you choose “Save & close”. “Save” leaves everything open. “Save & close others” saves every window and closes all of them except the one you are in.
No. The first tab loads. The others are created discarded, so they sit in the tab strip with their titles and cost almost no memory until you click one.
Thousands. Sessions live in Chrome’s extension storage, and Fogar declares unlimitedStorage so a long history of saved windows never hits the default quota. Duplicate addresses inside one session are collapsed when you save.
Yes, three ways: a Markdown list, a bookmarks file that any browser imports from its bookmark manager, or a Fogar file that “Restore from a backup” brings back. Or promote a session straight into a bookmark folder. Nothing is locked in.
No. Everything stays on this device. Export a bookmarks file and import it elsewhere, or bookmark the session and let Chrome sync the folder.
Fogar never reads them. It also skips browser pages such as chrome://settings, extension pages, and the new tab itself, since those are not worth saving.
Fogar is waiting on Chrome Web Store review. Until the listing is live, download the extension and load it yourself: three steps, no terminal. This page will carry the store link the moment it exists.
Version 0.1.0, a 2.6 MB zip. Prefer to wait for the store? Get notified when it ships.
You get a folder named fogar-chrome. Put it somewhere it can stay; Chrome runs the extension from that folder.
chrome://extensions and turn on Developer mode.The switch is in the top right corner.
Then open a new tab.
Installed this way, Fogar does not update itself, and Chrome may ask at launch whether to keep developer-mode extensions; Cancel keeps it. When the store listing goes live, install from there and bring your data over with the backup in Settings.