Save Chrome Tabs as Bookmarks with Stackboard—and Keep Them After Uninstalling
You save a window full of research tabs into a Stackboard stack and later remove the extension. What is still in Chrome afterward, and what never got saved at all?
- Stackboard turns Chrome’s new tab into a board and saves open tabs as ordinary bookmarks.
- Uninstalling leaves those bookmarks intact. Importing existing folders creates separate copies.
- Chrome handles bookmark sync; saving links does not preserve a page’s form entries or login session.
Your links remain regular Chrome bookmarks
You can remove Stackboard without losing the links you saved through it. They live under Other bookmarks → Stackboard, organized as space folders, stack folders and bookmarks. The MIT-licensed project uses Chrome’s bookmark structure rather than making its interface the only way to retrieve a collection.
The free extension displays those collections whenever you open a new tab. Spaces organize different areas of your work; stacks hold groups of links. It suits someone ready to close a crowded window but still wanting a useful place to find its addresses later.
Importing makes copies, not a live view of the original bar
On first run, Stackboard can copy your bookmarks bar and its folders into a board. The original bookmarks stay put. Later changes to those original folders do not appear in the imported board, according to its new-tab guide.
Keep the new-tab change when Chrome asks if you want to revert. The board replaces Google’s search box on that page, while address-bar search remains available. A few favorite links may not justify replacing the whole page; a collection spread across several folders gives the board a clearer purpose.
Save a window or choose a few tabs
Stash this window saves the current window’s tabs, with a separate stack for each tab group. A saved stack can reopen as a named tab group. Use the toolbar popup or the default Alt+Shift+S shortcut.
| Task | Action |
|---|---|
| Keep the current window’s links | Use Stash this window. |
| Add only selected tabs | Ctrl- or Shift-select tabs, then choose a stack in the popup. |
| Find a saved link | Press / to search across spaces. |
A dot identifies bookmarks already open in a tab, helping you return to them. Saving a tab records its title and address, as the privacy policy explains. That is link storage, not a promise to restore an unfinished form or an authenticated page session.
Chrome sync moves the links; some preferences stay local
With bookmark sync enabled, Chrome carries the saved collections to your other devices. Some preferences—including appearance settings and the last space opened—stay on the device, as does a custom wallpaper. Matching links do not imply identical layouts everywhere.
The project says the extension has no analytics or bookmark collection server. Chrome account sync remains a separate data path. Removing the extension also opens an optional exit survey; sending a response shares that answer with the developer.
Disable or remove Stackboard at chrome://extensions to return to the previous new-tab page. Chrome’s help page explains how removing an extension restores settings it changed. The useful exit path here is simple: stop using the board and keep organizing the same links as bookmarks.