A OneTab alternative with automatic backups
OneTab popularized the idea of collapsing your tabs into a list to save memory. The most common complaint from long-time users is losing those lists after an update, crash or sync problem. If that's why you're looking for an alternative, here's what to check.
What to look for in a tab saver
- Backups you don't have to remember: automatic and versioned, so you can go back to an earlier state.
- A copy outside the extension: a file on disk survives an uninstall or a corrupted profile.
- Easy import/export in an open format (plain text or JSON).
- Search once you have hundreds or thousands of tabs.
- Privacy: no account needed, no data sent to a server.
How Vigilo Tabs approaches it
- Automatic backups every 15 minutes; each new one is verified before an old one is removed.
- Write-ahead saving to survive a crash in the middle of a save.
- Imports OneTab's “URL | title” export and exports back to the same format, so you're never locked in.
- Search across all lists; tested with 10,000+ tabs.
- Pro ($9.99 one-time): unlimited versions, a daily backup file in Downloads/VigiloTabs/, named/locked lists, tags.
Move from OneTab in under a minute
- In OneTab, click Export / Import URLs and copy all the text.
- Open Vigilo Tabs, choose Import from OneTab and paste.
- Keep OneTab installed until you've checked everything came across.
Other options
Chrome's built-in bookmarks (“Bookmark all tabs”, Ctrl+Shift+D) and Tab Groups are free and sync across devices, but they don't keep version history. Choose what fits how you work.