How to turn Chrome tab groups into bookmarks (and back)

Updated 18 October 2026

Press Ctrl+Shift+D (Cmd+Shift+D on a Mac). Chrome's Bookmark all tabs saves every tab in the window into a new folder, and each tab group becomes a subfolder with the group's name. To save one group on its own, move it to a separate window first.

Save every group in a window

1. Name your groups first, since each subfolder takes its group's name.
2. Press Ctrl+Shift+D, or right-click an empty part of the tab strip and choose Bookmark all tabs.
3. Name the new folder (a date works well) and choose where it goes, such as the bookmarks bar.
4. Click Save. Each group is now a subfolder, and tabs that weren't in a group sit loose in the main folder.

Nothing closes. Your tabs and groups stay open until you close them yourself. More on the shortcut in how to bookmark all tabs in Chrome.

Save just one group

1. Right-click the group's name and choose Move group to new window. If the group is already alone in its window, skip this.
2. In the new window, press Ctrl+Shift+D and click Save.
3. Want the tabs out of the way now? Right-click the group's name and choose Close group. Chrome keeps it in the Tab groups menu as well.

Turn a bookmark folder back into a tab group

1. Right-click the folder in the bookmarks bar or in the Bookmark Manager (Ctrl+Shift+O, or Cmd+Option+B on a Mac).
2. Choose Open all in new tab group (Chrome adds the number of links to the label). The new group is named after the folder.

Open the same folder as a group again later and Chrome asks whether to replace the existing group or create a new one.

Or stash the window with Stackboard

To save the tabs and close them in one move, Stackboard's Stash this window (Alt+Shift+S, or the toolbar popup) saves every tab as a bookmark, one stack per tab group plus one for loose tabs, then closes them. Pinned tabs stay open. The stacks appear on your new tab page, and any stack reopens as a named tab group in one click. Everything is stored as ordinary bookmarks under Other bookmarks, so Chrome sync carries them to your other computers.

Tab groups or bookmarks: which to use

A simple rule: keep a task in a tab group while you're working on it, and turn it into bookmarks when it pauses. The tab strip stays short and the bookmarks bar stays useful.