Quickly Restart Chrome Without Losing Open Tabs

Sometimes you might need to quickly restart Chrome without losing the tabs you have open. Fortunately, you can do this fast with a little bit of magic they built into the browser.

You can use “chrome://restart” to quickly restart Google Chrome by:

1. Typing in Address Bar

Simply type chrome://restart into the Chrome address bar, then press “Enter“. The browser will close, then restart with tabs intact.

2. Restart Bookmark

Create a bookmark that points to chrome://restart you can use to quickly restart Chrome any time.

1. Hold “CTRL/Command” and press “D” to bring up the “Edit bookmark” dialog.
2. Select the “More…” button.
3. Name the bookmark “Restart” or anything you want. For the URL, put “chrome://restart“.
   

Now you have a bookmark you can select any time you want to restart the Chrome browser without having to lose your tabs or rebooting the entire system.