How to Bookmark All Open Tabs in Chrome at Once

Right-click any tab, choose one option, and every open tab in that window becomes a bookmark folder. It's the fastest built-in way to save a whole browsing session before you close it. Here's exactly how it works, and the gaps that show up once that folder starts piling up.

How to bookmark all open tabs in Chrome

1. Right-click any tab in the window you want to save.
2. Choose Bookmark all tabs... from the context menu (or press Ctrl+Shift+D on Windows/Linux, Cmd+Shift+D on Mac).
3. Chrome opens a small dialog suggesting a folder name — usually the tab count and today's date — and a location (Bookmarks Bar or Other Bookmarks).
4. Rename the folder if you want something more useful than "12 tabs," pick a location, and click Save.

Every tab in that window is now a bookmark inside the new folder, in the same left-to-right order they were open. Nothing closes — your tabs stay exactly where they were.

Where the folder ends up

The dialog lets you drop the new folder anywhere in your existing bookmark tree, but most people leave it at the default: Other Bookmarks, or the Bookmarks Bar if that's already visible. Either way, it's just a folder like any other — right-click it later to open every link inside as a fresh set of tabs (Open all bookmarks), rename it, or drag it somewhere else in the bookmark manager (Ctrl+Shift+O / Cmd+Option+B).

What this shortcut is actually good for

"Bookmark all tabs" is a snapshot tool, and it's genuinely useful for a specific moment:

• Before closing a big window for good — a research sprint, a trip-planning session, a pile of shopping tabs — when you want a record without keeping the tabs open.
• Before a Chrome update or profile reset where you'd rather not trust "reopen closed tabs" to bring everything back.
• Handing off a set of links — export the folder, or just tell someone which folder to look in.

Where it runs out of road

The gap isn't the shortcut — it's what happens to that folder a week later:

• One window per bookmark. Run the shortcut in three separate windows and you get three separate folders, easy to duplicate or forget one of.
• No content search. Bookmarks are searchable by title and URL only. If you don't remember which tab had the pricing page you needed, you're opening folders one by one.
• The URL, not the page. A bookmark saves the address, not what was on the page. If the site changes, gets paywalled, or goes down, the bookmark still "works" — it just doesn't show what you had open.
• Folders don't merge sessions. Bookmark a window today and another tomorrow, and you get two flat folders with no way to combine or compare them — which is exactly the gap How to Save Chrome Tabs Without Bookmarks covers in more depth.

None of that makes the shortcut bad — it's a fast, zero-setup way to snapshot a window. It just wasn't built to be a searchable archive of everything you've ever saved.

Bookmark folder vs. a saved tab session

	"Bookmark all tabs"	A tab manager save
Captures one window	Yes	Yes, or a manual selection
Captures multiple windows at once	No — repeat per window	Yes
Searchable by page content	No — title/URL only	Yes
Named and grouped by project	Only if you rename the folder	Yes, by design
Sync across devices	Only with Chrome sync signed in	Yes, independent of Chrome sync

A searchable home once the folders add up

Amazing Tabs is built for exactly the moment bookmark folders stop being enough — a lot of saved links, no reliable way to find one again:

• Save the current tab or the whole window in one click or Ctrl+Shift+S, no folder-naming dialog required.
• Search by title or content with ⌘K / Ctrl+K, instead of opening folders one at a time.
• Group saves by project, so a research sprint and a shopping session don't blur into one flat list — see How to Organize Chrome Tabs by Project.
• Free for up to 100 saved links, with optional encrypted sync across devices if Premium is added later.

Keep bookmarking for quick, one-off saves. Add Amazing Tabs for everything you actually need to find again. Add Amazing Tabs to Chrome — free, no signup to install.

Quick recap

• Right-click a tab → Bookmark all tabs, or Ctrl+Shift+D / Cmd+Shift+D, saves every tab in that window as one bookmark folder.
• It captures one window at a time and saves URLs, not page content or page state.
• It's a fast snapshot before closing a window — not a searchable, cross-window archive.
• Once the folders pile up faster than you can find things in them, a searchable save is the fix — see How to Manage 100+ Open Tabs Without Losing Your Mind for the broader workflow.