How to open a set of tabs together quickly?

Question

How to open a set of tabs together quickly?

I normally use "Pin Tab" in a session, and if Chrome is closed normally, the previous set of pinned tabs will be opened pinned automatically next time. But sometimes:

• Chrome is closed in a crash, or
• I am just working on a different computer where I did not log in my Google profile

In those two cases, how do I open a predefined set of tabs quickly? It is a bunch of webapps I frequent.

Solution 1

Go to chrome://chrome/settings/ > Under "On startup" > Choose Open a specific page or set of pages. Here you can specify URLs of pages that you want to automatically launch every time on startup.

Another thing you could do is, bookmark all your frequently visited apps in a folder. You can launch all those bookmarks in a single-click when necessary. This gives better control in my opinion.

Solution 2

Yes. Just list the URLs as arguments to the Chrome program. In Windows for example:

Path\To\Chrome\chrome.exe superuser.com stackoverflow.com google.com

Again in Windows, you could create a batch file with that and a shortcut to it, for any set(s) of tabs you frequent.

A similar approach should work on any OS Chrome supports, because the command line should function the same.

Solution 3

There is add-on for chrome called tabcloud which is nice for that.

Comments

[Dennis]

Good idea! But there's no need for a batch file. A simple shortcut to %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome‌​.exe superuser.com stackoverflow.com google.com will suffice.

[twasbrillig]

True. But there is a character limit on shortcuts so you can't include too many long URLs.