How to Bookmark a Tab Group in Chrome

Tab groups are easy to build and easy to lose — close the window, restart Chrome, or hit a crash, and a carefully organized group of 15 tabs is gone unless you saved it first. Chrome has a built-in way to bookmark a whole group in one step, and it's easy to miss because it lives on the group label, not the tab.

How to bookmark a tab group in Chrome

1. Find the tab group's colored label at the top of the tab strip — it's the small pill with the group's name (or just a color, if unnamed) sitting to the left of the group's first tab.
2. Right-click that label, not an individual tab inside the group.
3. Choose Bookmark tab group from the menu.
4. Chrome saves every tab in the group into a new bookmark folder named after the group, and drops it wherever your bookmark bar or "Other Bookmarks" points.

The group stays open in your tab strip exactly as it was — this is a save, not a move.

What actually gets saved

The bookmark folder captures the group's tabs — their titles and URLs — and the group's name. What it doesn't carry over:

• Color. Bookmark folders are plain folders; the group's color-coding only exists in the live tab strip.
• Order relative to other groups, once reopened. "Open all bookmarks" reopens the tabs, but they land as a fresh set, not automatically re-grouped and re-colored the way they were.
• Live state. A bookmark is a URL, not a snapshot of the page — same as any other Chrome bookmark.

Why bookmark a group instead of just leaving it open

A tab group feels organized right up until Chrome closes for a reason you didn't choose — a crash, a forced update restart, a laptop that ran out of battery. Bookmarking the group before you need to close it (or periodically, if it's a group you keep open for weeks) means the work of grouping and naming those tabs isn't lost with the session:

• Before closing a group you're done with for now — a research group, a trip-planning group — when you want the option to reopen it later without keeping it in your tab strip.
• As a backup for a group you keep open long-term. Long-lived groups are exactly the ones most at risk from an unexpected restart, since you never planned around closing them.
• Before handing a group off — bookmark it, then point a teammate at the folder instead of listing links one by one.

Where a bookmarked group runs out of road

• No search inside the folder. Bookmarks match on title and URL only, so a folder with a generic group name and a dozen similarly-titled tabs is hard to scan.
• No live update. Add a tab to the open group after bookmarking, and the bookmark folder doesn't know — it's frozen at the moment you saved it. You'd need to re-bookmark to catch up, which usually just creates a second folder instead of updating the first.
• Color and grouping don't survive a reopen. As above — you get the tabs back, not the group.

None of that makes it a bad shortcut. It's the fastest built-in way to turn "a group I might lose" into "a group I can always get back."

A searchable, always-current alternative

Amazing Tabs is built for the version of this that keeps updating instead of freezing at one moment:

• Save any tab, or a whole set, to a named project — grouping that behaves like a tab group, but lives outside the tab strip and survives a crash, a reset, or a new machine.
• Search by title or content with ⌘K / Ctrl+K, instead of scanning a bookmark folder for a tab you half-remember.
• Add to a saved group at any time, and it's there the next time you search or browse it — no re-bookmarking to catch up.
• Free for up to 100 saved links, with cross-device sync if you outgrow that.

Keep bookmarking a group for a quick, one-off save. Add Amazing Tabs when you want that group to stay current. Add Amazing Tabs to Chrome — free, no signup to install.

Quick recap

• Right-click the tab group's colored label (not a tab inside it) and choose Bookmark tab group.
• It saves a copy — the open group stays exactly as it was, tabs included.
• Color and live updates don't carry over — you get the tabs back as a plain, static bookmark folder.
• Bookmark before you need to close a group, not after — a crash or forced restart won't wait for you to remember.

Further reading: How to Close a Tab Group in Chrome if you're ready to clear the group out once it's saved, How to Use Tab Groups in Chrome for creating and managing groups from scratch, How to Bookmark All Open Tabs in Chrome at Once for the whole-window version of this same shortcut, or Chrome's Saved Tab Groups, Explained for the native "Save group" alternative that reopens as a live group instead of a bookmark folder.

Add Amazing Tabs to Chrome — free → Install from the Chrome Web Store. 100 saved links free, upgrade only if you want unlimited and cross-device sync. See pricing for the full breakdown — including the $99 lifetime deal (capped at 200 spots).