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I know that I can go to history section in desktop and there I can locate the history of android tabs separately and then can open the tabs one by one.
But I want to transfer all of my current Android session to desktop at once without going through the arduous process of locations URLs in history one by one and then opening them.
ankit
Posted 2017-02-01T06:50:28.660
Reputation: 424
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Use Tabs from other devices on the left of History (you can go straight to chrome://history/syncedTabs), click on Open all in menu (⋮) on the right.
Hex
Posted 2017-02-01T06:50:28.660
Reputation: 982
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The only workaround (if you can even call it that) is refreshing the tabs on my phone, one by one. Then they appear on my desktop. This isn't viable when you have hundreds of open tabs on the phone.
Luke Flegg
Posted 2017-02-01T06:50:28.660
Reputation: 151
3I agree that this is an answer. The "Tabs from other devices" response by @Hex does work but only if the tabs aren't too old. If they are too old, then this workaround can fix it. I just refreshed 134 tabs on my Android. It took around five minutes so it is possible to do but very annoying. – Tom Anderson – 2017-09-11T06:19:20.490
2I just found a solution to avoid the annoying process of refreshing all tabs one by one. If you go to your Google Android settings section and you click in your Google account preferences (the avatar), you can force a toggle on/off/on to get all the tabs synced. – Ferran Basora – 2018-01-01T19:51:14.033
1@FerranBasora "Google Android settings" - where is this? on the mobile? – lifebalance – 2018-02-03T19:12:31.400
1@lifebalance I think FerranBasora meant Account settings. Usually in Android settings you can find accounts that are synced. Like Microsoft live accounts or Google accounts. When you locate the google account you use for your chrome, you open its sync settings and find "Chrome". Turn that off and on again — force sync. Worked for me with over 100 tabs – Ev0oD – 2019-09-25T11:10:59.910
Now no longer do we need to update tabs. The problem is finally sorted. – ankit – 2019-12-27T11:48:55.970
@ankit How is it sorted? Can you elaborate? I wanted to sync links and update visited and not visited accordingly. – Zeel SHah – 2020-01-29T19:05:50.873
@ZeelSHah Now, you don't have to reload mobile tabs to see them. Just go to chrome://history/syncedTabs and you can find all your mobile tabs there. – ankit – 2020-02-01T11:16:45.253
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A somewhat working solution is found here:
https://dev.to/piczmar_0/when-you-never-close-tabs-on-your-mobile-chrome-browser-2boj
I wonder if it preserves the order of the open tabs, this is crucial for me.
Petrus K.
Posted 2017-02-01T06:50:28.660
Reputation: 101
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Connect your usb keyboard to a micro usb adapter then plug it into your phone s charging port. This will remove the annoyingness to refresh tabs
Georgian C
Posted 2017-02-01T06:50:28.660
Reputation: 1
That doesn't answer the question of being able to export the tabs from Android to desktop. – Dan Atkinson – 2019-01-24T12:42:50.033
This only shows the tabs that have already been closed. I don't feel that it answers the question of "current session". – Tom Anderson – 2017-09-11T04:58:21.483
3Actually, I changed my mind. I think it answers the question but it's incomplete. If the tabs are too old, they don't show up in the list, but we can use the workaround suggested by @Luke Flegg. Also, stale entries appear in the "Tabs from other devices" list. – Tom Anderson – 2017-09-11T06:16:09.093
1As @TomAnderson says, this only shows a list of recent tabs, not the list of actually open tabs. In other words, there's no correlation to whether the tabs are currently open or have been closed, only to whether they've been recently visited. – waldyrious – 2018-02-14T09:55:03.287
where exactly are we talking about here – Muhammad Umer – 2019-08-05T04:42:17.683
1@TomAnderson Update: Now it works for all tabs - old and new alike. – ankit – 2019-12-27T11:47:10.123