01 Part 1 · Tab Manager

Tab Snapshots & Visit History

Save and restore whole browsing sessions, and browse a history archive deeper than Chrome keeps natively.

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Tab Snapshots

A snapshot is a one-click capture of every window and tab you currently have open, saved so you can restore that exact session later — after a reboot, a crash, or just to switch contexts and come back to it tomorrow.

Capturing a snapshot

Press Ctrl+Shift+S (Cmd+Shift+S on Mac) or use the Snapshots panel to capture everything open, right now.
A scope picker lets you choose specific windows or tabs instead of capturing all of them.
Blank tabs and internal chrome:///about:// pages are filtered out by default, so a snapshot doesn't fill up with pages you can't restore anyway.
Add a note to remind yourself what the snapshot was for, and mark it as a favorite to keep it near the top of the list.

Automatic snapshots

Turn on a schedule (every N minutes, hours, or days) so a snapshot is taken without you remembering to. Set a maximum count so old auto-snapshots are pruned as new ones arrive, and choose a naming rule — a fixed prefix plus a timestamp, or a prefix plus a running sequence number.

Restoring a snapshot

Restore the whole snapshot, just one window from within it, or a hand-picked subset of tabs — into your current window or a brand-new one. Snapshots can be renamed after the fact, and exported to or imported from a JSON file (imports are capped at 10 MB and a maximum item count, so a corrupted or unrelated file can't be loaded by mistake).

Visit History

X-Power Plus keeps its own visit history archive, separate from — and deeper than — the roughly 90 days Chrome keeps natively. All of it is recorded locally as you browse and stays on your device.

Free vs. Pro applies to how far back you can look, not what's recorded On the Free plan, the History view shows your last 90 days. Everything older is still being recorded and fully retained on your device — a Pro license (or the 30-day trial) simply unlocks viewing and searching the entire archive, with nothing to re-import or recover. See Pricing, Trial & License Activation.

Searching your history

The History search box supports regex:, count:, top:, and date: (e.g. date:7d or date:>1h) — see Bookmark Search Syntax for the full syntax reference, which is shared across the extension's search boxes. Type :help in the box for a quick cheat sheet.

Managing history entries

Batch-delete selected entries or clear the archive entirely, export what you're looking at, and apply the same three-level Privacy Mode used in Current Tabs and the Efficiency Dashboard. Right-click any entry to open it, quick-bookmark it, copy its link, or delete it.