Chrome lost your tabs? Nest brings them back.
Autopilot works in the background, without Nest being open. When a restart drops your tabs, it offers them back in one click. When you close a window or tab group, it keeps a copy. Free, no account.
After a restart, one click gets your tabs back
Chrome restarts for updates, crashes and the occasional power cut, and depending on how it was set it brings back all of your tabs, some of them or none, without saying which. Nest keeps a list of what was open. About a minute after Chrome starts, it compares that list with what came back, and if tabs are missing it has already saved them and offers them back.
Close the window. Keep the tabs.
Closing a window used to be a decision. Now it is just tidying. When you close a window with three or more tabs, or a Chrome tab group with two or more, Nest saves it as an Automatic Session. Reopen it next week, pick a few tabs out of it, or keep it for good.
For tabs you want to come back on a schedule rather than on demand, there is tab snoozing; for a named set you reopen deliberately, there are saved sessions.
Duplicates close themselves, if you want them to
The fourth copy of the same docs page does not need a decision either. Turn on Duplicate Autopilot and Nest closes exact duplicates as they appear, keeping the one you were using. It is off until you switch it on.
Prefer to do it by hand? Closing duplicate tabs is one button in Organize, with a Vault snapshot taken first.
Tabs you stopped using: suspended, then tidied away
A tab you have not looked at in days still holds memory, and one you have not looked at in weeks is mostly guilt. With Suspend on, Nest unloads tabs idle for 1, 3 or 7 days, your choice: they stay in your tab strip and reload when you click them. Tidy away goes further for tabs idle 14 or 30 days. It closes them and keeps them in Nest for 30 days, and the first time it shows you the list and asks.
Rather decide tab by tab? Snooze closes a tab now and brings it back when you say.
What Autopilot will not do
A tool that acts on its own has to be predictable. These are rules in the code, not settings you have to remember to check.
Turn it on once. Then forget about it.
New installs get Autopilot on the welcome page, with Restart rescue, Automatic Sessions, Duplicate Autopilot and Suspend ticked, and nothing runs until you say so. Tidy away is never ticked for you. If you already use Nest, Restart rescue and Automatic Sessions are on, and the rest wait for you to switch them on.
FAQ
Yes. That is the point of it. Autopilot runs in the extension’s background, so it notices a restart, a closed window or a duplicate tab whether or not you have opened Nest today. When it has done something worth knowing, the Nest icon shows a small dot.
Two rules can, and both wait for you to turn them on. Duplicate Autopilot closes exact copies of a page that is already open. Tidy away closes tabs you have not used for 14 or 30 days, and the first time it shows you the list and asks. Neither touches pinned tabs, tabs playing sound, the tab you are on or anything you used in the last 30 minutes. Every run has Undo: closed duplicates are in Closed Tabs, and tidied tabs stay in Nest for 30 days.
Suspend unloads a tab you have not used for a few days to free memory. It stays in your tab strip and reloads when you click it; nothing closes. Tidy away is for tabs you have not touched in weeks: it closes them and keeps them in Nest as a Tidied away session for 30 days, on every plan, so you can reopen all of them, some of them, or none.
Chrome reopens tabs only when “Continue where you left off” is set and the restart went cleanly. After a crash, an update or a power cut it can come back with some windows missing, and it does not tell you what it dropped. Nest compares what was open before the restart with what came back, and offers the difference.
No. If two rescue notices in a row go without a click, Nest stops showing them and only puts a dot on its icon. The tabs are still saved for you, and you can switch the notice back on in Account.
Yes, all of it, with no account. The extension is free and needs no account, including Autopilot and up to 3 named sessions. Pro makes sessions unlimited and adds cloud sync and 30-day Automatic Session history. Automatic Sessions are kept 7 days on the free plan and 30 on Pro.
Turn on the weekly summary in Account. On Monday morning you get one notice with counts, such as windows saved and idle tabs tidied away, and only if Autopilot did something that week. Between summaries, the Autopilot card in Nest lists every run.
The addresses and titles of the tabs it saves, in Chrome’s local storage on your computer. While Suspend or Tidy away is on, it also keeps the time you last switched to each page, so it can tell which tabs are idle. None of it is synced or sent anywhere. Nest reads no page content, and its notifications show counts, never page titles.
Close tabs without the worry
Free, no account. Install Nest and switch Autopilot on from the welcome page.
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