Cloud tab-group snapshots — Chrome forgets your groups, Flocci Tabs does not

Save a window’s exact group layout and restore it on any machine.

How does cloud snapshots work?

Direct answer

A snapshot stores a window’s complete group layout — group names, colours, tab order and URLs — against your Flocci account. Restore it after a crash, after a restart, or on a completely different laptop. Chrome has no native way to save and re-open a named tab group; this is the gap snapshots close.

What it does

Captures group titles, group colours, tab order and URLs — the whole layout, not just a link list.
Survives a browser crash, an OS reinstall, and a change of machine.
Scoped to your Flocci account — the same account that signs you into every other Flocci app.
Named snapshots, so “Q3 planning” and “bug 412” can both wait on the shelf.

Under the hood

Snapshots persist to a Postgres group_snapshots table keyed to your identity user id, storing the group tree as JSONB alongside tab_count and group_count. Restores are scoped to your account only.

Flocci Tabs 1.3.3 · Manifest V3 service worker

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Cloud snapshots — questions

Straight answers, no marketing detours.

Does cloud snapshots need a Flocci account?

Yes. AI features and cloud snapshots run through your Flocci account, which you create with a single Google sign-in. There is no password to set and no API key to paste.

Can I turn cloud snapshots off?

Yes. Every behaviour is toggleable from the extension's options page, and rules, colours and keyword filters can be rewritten or exported as JSON for backup.

What exactly leaves my browser?

Nothing. This feature is local-only — it uses Chrome's tabs and tabGroups APIs on your machine and makes no network request at all.

Other features

Try cloud snapshots yourself

Install once, then drag a tab out. That is the setup.

Add to Chrome — free See how it works

No account needed for automatic grouping. No API key, ever.