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Quickly Restart Chrome Without Losing Open Tabs

Quickly Restart Chrome Without Losing Open Tabs

August 8, 2019 by Mitch Bartlett 5 Comments

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“.
    Chrome Restart Bookmark

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.

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Comments

  1. Jacob says

    April 16, 2022 at 3:51 pm

    On Chrome OS it restarts the whole device

  2. Mr. Brüh says

    July 23, 2021 at 10:16 pm

    Well, my Incognito tabs mainly but, yëß. So basically, it works for all tabs that are indeed, not in incognito. Unfortunate, i n d e e d.

  3. Mr. Brüh mœMeñT says

    July 23, 2021 at 10:14 pm

    It does indeed, close tabs when used. El’ heresy, indeed.

  4. Chris Siple says

    December 19, 2020 at 4:31 pm

    Ha ha, IT’S FROZEN. I can’t type anything in the address bar, or use bookmarks.

  5. Prakash Sharma says

    February 14, 2020 at 3:01 am

    Legend

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