Session Time Travel — Auto Tab Snapshots

Session Time Travel is a passive safety net that automatically snapshots your entire tab state every 5 minutes. If Chrome crashes, you accidentally close tabs, or you just want to return to how your browser looked an hour ago, you can rewind to any of the last 50 snapshots and restore it as a named workspace — without losing your current session.

How It Works

Every 5 minutes, SuperchargeNavigation captures a snapshot of your open tabs, groups, and pinned tabs. These snapshots are stored in a ring buffer: once 50 snapshots exist, each new one replaces the oldest. The result is a rolling 4-hour window of tab history (50 snapshots × 5 minutes each).

When you open the Time Travel panel, snapshots are listed with timestamps. Select any snapshot, and it restores as a new Workspace — your current tabs remain open. You can compare the two states and close whichever you don’t need.

No snapshot is ever sent anywhere. Everything stays in Chrome’s local storage.

Settings

When to Use This

After a crash: Chrome or your system crashed and you lost your tabs. Open Time Travel, find the last snapshot before the crash, and restore it.

Accidental closure: You closed a window or tab group by mistake and Ctrl+Shift+T isn’t recovering everything you need. Time Travel has a complete snapshot of your session state.

“What was I looking at earlier?”: You were deep in a research session this morning and want to return to that exact set of tabs without rebuilding it from scratch. Find the snapshot from that time and restore.

Complement to intentional workspaces: Workspaces are what you save on purpose. Session Time Travel is the automatic backup behind every session — you get both layers of protection with no extra effort.

Why No Other Extension Does This

Most tab session managers save only when you explicitly ask. Session Time Travel runs continuously in the background, so the snapshot exists whether or not you thought to save. This is the feature that turns a tab manager into a genuine safety net.

Privacy

Snapshots contain tab URLs and group metadata. They are stored entirely in Chrome’s local storage on your device and are never transmitted to any external service.