Freeze and restore developer workspaces — tabs, scroll positions, highlights.
Users
5
−1 in 30 days
Rating
5.0 / 5
unchanged in 30 days
Ratings
1
0 in 30 days
Store rank
#245K
#205K among extensions
Version
1.0.1
updated 27 Aug 2026
Users
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:5 usersMove the mouse over the chart for any month
Ratings count
monthly, 2 months
Latest, 16 Oct 2026:1 ratingsMove the mouse over the chart for any month
The Chrome Web Store rounds user counts down to the leading digit, so the user line moves in steps. The ratings count is exact and is the better signal of real adoption.
About bgsave
Freeze a set of tabs into a named workspace, then restore them later exactly where you left off.
Built for developers and researchers who juggle multiple in-flight investigations — "the auth debug session," "the Redis latency thread," "the design review" — and want to swap between them without losing their place.
Every other session saver gives you back the URLs. bgsave gives you back the state: the scroll position halfway down a long RFC, the text you had selected in the docs, the highlights you made across three tabs.
Features
• Freeze the current window as a named workspace — captures every tab's URL, title, scroll position, selected text, and any highlights you've made
• Restore a workspace into a new window with the original tab order, pinned states, and per-tab state re-applied
• Append any tab into an existing workspace via right-click → Add to workspace
• Manage — rename, delete, or remove individual tabs from the options page
• Highlight text on any page and it will be re-applied on restore
• Quota-aware — clear messaging when Chrome's storage limit is reached, so you never lose data silently
Privacy — the whole story
• No accounts, no login, no cloud
• No analytics, no telemetry, no external requests — the extension makes zero HTTP calls
• All data stays on your device in Chrome's local storage
• Open source — code is available at https://github.com/shubhamlakheraa/bgsave
Non-goals
bgsave is intentionally not:
• A cloud-synced session manager (use the browser's built-in sync or a dedicated tool)
• A history browser
• A team collaboration tool
It does one thing: freeze and restore your own workspaces on your own machine.
Source & feedback
Source code, bug reports, and feature requests: https://github.com/shubhamlakheraa/bgsave