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I'm logged in with the same Chrome account at two laptops sitting next to each other. Often I want to transfer tabs/windows from one to the other. I could copy&paste the URLs to a .txt file, then use Homegroup sharing to access that .txt from the other PC and copy&paste the URLs into the browser there, but that's inconvenient.

Any easy way to do it?

Stefan Monov
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  1. Open the History tab: you can use Command+y on Mac (I guess that Super+y on Linux/BSD and Win)
  2. On the left side you should see "Tabs from other devices" -- click it
solr
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On the source machine:

  1. Right click on a tab, and select "Bookmark all tabs..."
  2. Enter a name for the new folder that will be created containing a bookmark for each open tab
  3. Pick a location in your bookmarks tree

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On the destination machine:

  1. Find the new folder, named above (it can take some time you sync)
  2. Right click on the folder, and select "Open all bookmarks"
  3. Delete the folder if you don't want to keep it

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Attie
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You have two solutions :

1 If you only use Chrome on both devices, and do not need to transfer tabs from Chrome to another browser, then TabCloud could work. Also if you are connected to your google account on both Chrome browsers you may be able to see the tabs opened on other devices via the chrome menu>History (Source)

2 If you use multiple browsers : Surfon seems to fit the bill

Cheers

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mhham
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You can create a shared folder, attach that as a toolbar on the taskbar for both laptops, and then you can drag the tab into the taskbar folder, which will create a shortcut with the URL, and then you can drag it from the taskbar to chrome. Delete the shortcut afterwards to keep things tidy.

Yorik
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While on any tab that you want to transfer, click the star icon at the end of the address bar.

chrome favourite star

This will bookmark it, and by default it allocates it to your bookmarks bar.

bookmarks dropdown

Make sure that the bookmarks bar is selected, then click "Done" on the dropdown that appears.

If you are logged into the same google account on Chrome on both PC's, the bookmarks will sync together. The bookmark should pop up on the bookmarks bar of the other PC in a few seconds, simply click on this and go! Make sure you have the bookmarks bar turned on in settings. Once you have loaded the page, you can right click on the bookmark and delete it to keep your bookmarks bar tidy. That's what I would do, hope that helps!

Scerno
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If you are running two computers side-by-side, I strongly suggest using Synergy. This will let you use one mouse and keyboard to control both computers (just move the pointer to the other screen to switch control). There is a shared clipboard and other nice features. Then the problem you describe, and many others, simply disappear. You just copy the url and paste it into the browser on the other computer.

RoG
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Chrome added new feature to send pages to other device in previous version.

If you want to transfer a single page, focus on url bar, enter image description here, click send this page button, then choose the device and send. You can also right click on the page to do this, too.

If you want to transfer multi pages in one time, seems Chrome does not support this yet. If it supports sending pages selected by ctrl, that would be perfect.

Lying_cat
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The most up to date solution:

  1. Open chrome in new device, sign-in with the same google account
  2. Open History and on the left side menu click "Tabs from other devices"
  3. This will show tabs from your other machine, phone wherever you have Google chrome open
  4. Against the device name, you will see "three dots" menu option
  5. Click on "Open all"

and voila!!

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Tab groups are now synced between devices in Chrome (at last since version 131.0.6778.265) so that's now a pretty neat way to get your Chrome tabs synced between devices. Add them to a tab group:

Add tab to tab group

Chrome Tab groups

bjorgvin
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Workona syncs tabs and also manages them.

thyu
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What I did was bookmark my tabs first then I right clicked on each tab and selected “send to your devices” and deleted my Chromebook. Hope this helps!

Nugget
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Install OneTab extension (free) on both machines/browsers. Export from one. Cntl-C to copy the exported text (the urls of all your tabs), then on the target machine/browser use OneTab import, cntl-V to paste the urls into the import panel. Click import. If you have a lot of tabs, it can take hours. It may even choke if you have 1,000+ tabs. This worked for me with 1,025 tabs moving from Firefox to Edge browsers on the same Windows machine. You can also save the exported urls as a txt file and move it to a different machine, or even a different OS.

I was using the excellent Tree Style Tabs in Firefox to manage tabs, but discovered Edge has great support for tab groups and lets you put the tabs on the left side of the browser (like Tree Style Tabs) only with collapsible tab groups to keep things organized.

Longer term, I highly recommend Raindrop.io to manage the hundreds of tabs we all keep. Paid version adds nested tab groups ... awesome ... and they share easily across multiple devices/browsers. Organized, easy to get to from anywhere, and you don’t use half the RAM on your machine keeping all those tabs active. Very cool. No, I don’t work for Raindrop ... just a fan.

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For those people who do not or can not sync bookmarks via Google Cloud.

  1. Bookmark all (open) tabs to a new folder.
  2. Export (all) bookmarks to a file in Bookmark Manager.
  3. Transfer the file to another computer.
  4. Import bookmarks and keep the folder only.
  5. Right click the folder and choose "open all".
Anderson
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In Mozilla Firefox: Right click a tab, click select all, right click again, click "Send (# of tabs) to Device"

To send only selected tabs, click the first one, hold down the CTRL key and click others to highlight them, then right click, then send to device

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What's easiest for me is using a chrome plugin called Bulk URL Opener. When you click its icon, it has a list of all the URLs of all your open tabs/windows. If you can copy that list and send it as text to your other devices, the same plugin will open the URLs you paste in. I usually slack the list to myself, or I might email my whole team.

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