What's new — Session Tabs

1.12

Current 24 August 2026

Reload is in the popup now. Folder installs are never updated by Chrome, so a new version means replacing the folder and re-reading it — which used to mean opening the tour and scrolling to the bottom to find the button. It is one click from the toolbar instead.
The link only appears on folder installs. A Store install updates itself, and is not offered a button that would do nothing for it.

24 August 2026

The time field takes what you type. Click it, type 10:38, press Enter — it works. So do 1038, 9pm, 9:05 p.m., 22:15 and a bare 9. The old field was Chrome’s built-in one, which silently ignored all of that.
An arrow on the field, because nothing else said it opened anything — and the picker it opens now has a Set button that applies the time and closes it.
A Done button, beside Delete, that closes a session’s details when you have finished with them. Escape does the same, closing the time picker first and the details second.

24 August 2026

Sessions can open themselves. Any saved session can be set to open at a time on the days you choose — Work at 8:00, Monday to Friday — or every time Chrome starts. Open a session’s details and use Opens by itself.
It never interrupts. A session that opens on its own does not steal focus and does not change the tab you are on. The group appears in your tab strip and the toolbar icon shows a small number until you open the popup.
It never ambushes you either. If Chrome was closed when a session was due, it still opens when you start the browser — but only within two hours of the time you set. Later than that, the occurrence is skipped rather than dropping a morning’s tabs on your evening.
The row tells you. A scheduled session shows its time (or “on start”) on its own row, so nothing the browser is about to do is hidden behind a click.
Backups carry schedules with them, but never carry when it last ran — a restored session cannot immediately re-open on a machine it has never run on.
Still no account, no network, no server. The schedule sits beside the session on your own computer.

19 August 2026

Shortcut to Chrome’s extensions page. A link in the popup footer, and a button in the tour, open it for you instead of making you type chrome://extensions by hand. If Chrome refuses to let an extension open its own settings pages, the address is copied to your clipboard instead.
Reload button. In the tour: reloads the extension from disk. Useful only if you installed the folder version and have just replaced it with a newer download.

19 August 2026

You get told when it updates. After the extension updates to a new version, it opens a short note saying what changed. It only appears when the version actually moved.
Check for updates. A link in the popup footer opens these release notes so you can compare them against the version you have. The extension still never contacts any server on its own — this only happens when you click it.
Clearer warning on the website. The download page now says, right next to the download button, that installing from a folder means Chrome will never update it for you.

19 August 2026

Drag tabs into a session. Anything in the top of the list — an unsaved tab group, or a single loose tab — can be dragged straight onto one of your sessions to add it. Duplicates are skipped, and nothing is removed from where it came from.
Loose tabs are listed. Open tabs that are not in any group now appear under a collapsible Loose tabs heading, so a single stray tab can be filed into a session without grouping it first.
Add to… button. The same thing without dragging, for keyboard use or a small screen.
The save button says what it will do. It now reads “+ Save 3 selected tabs”, “+ Save group Morning”, or “+ Save all 12 tabs” depending on what is actually about to be captured, instead of the ambiguous “+ Save this session”.
Fixed: a failure in the version stamp could stop the session list from loading at all.

19 August 2026

A welcome tour. Installing Session Tabs now opens a short how-it-works page once, explaining the group → save → reopen loop. It is bundled inside the extension, so it works with no internet connection and nothing is reported anywhere.
How it works link. The popup footer can reopen that tour any time.
Version on show. The popup footer displays the installed version.
Clearer instructions for adding tabs. The tour now teaches right-click → Add tab to group rather than only mentioning dragging, which is fiddly in Chrome.

19 August 2026

Backup reminder. If your sessions have never been backed up — or the last backup is over a month old — a quiet line at the top of the list says so, with an Export now button. No dialogs, nothing blocking.
A better first run. With nothing saved yet, the empty popup now teaches the fastest route: make a Chrome tab group, then press Save.
Damaged entries can no longer break the list. Every saved session is checked and repaired as it loads. Previously one bad entry could leave the whole list blank.

19 August 2026

One list instead of two. Live tab groups you have not saved sit under Not saved yet; everything you have saved sits under Your sessions. Nothing appears twice any more.
Save makes things move. Saving a live group moves it down into your sessions and highlights where it landed, so it is obvious it worked.
Live sessions are marked. A saved session whose group is open right now shows a green dot and an Update button; the rest show Open.
Clearer confirmations. Every save and update says what happened — “Saved ✓ — 8 tabs.”

19 August 2026

Plain language throughout. The extension now talks about sessions rather than projects, end to end.
Duplicate names are handled. Saving something with a name you have already used adds a number instead of quietly overwriting.
Import backup. Restore sessions from a backup file. Imported sessions are added to your list — nothing is replaced.
A check on sign-in links. If a tab you are saving looks like a one-time or sign-in link, the extension asks first rather than storing it silently. Nothing is ever stripped without asking.
Private windows excluded. The extension no longer runs in incognito at all.

19 August 2026

Renamed to Session Tabs.
Nothing fails silently any more. If a save cannot be written, you are told, and the list reloads rather than showing something that was never stored.
Opening a session is reliable. It now tracks the exact tab group it created, instead of matching on the name — which could focus an unrelated group with a similar title.
Readable and reachable. Fixed low-contrast buttons, made every control keyboard operable, and enlarged the small click targets.
Export backup. Save every session to a file.

13 August 2026

First working version: save the tabs in a Chrome tab group as a named set, and reopen them later as a real tab group with the same name and colour.