Where does Brave store open tabs on MacOS?

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An extension wiped my open tabs and my history so I cannot re-open the around 100 tabs I had open before installing the extension.

I do have a time machine backup of my Mac so I want to recover the tabs from that backup.

Where does Brave store open tabs and what’s the easiest way to recover them using my backup? I did Google and couldn’t find anyone mentioning it.

Thank you!

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Those tabs are stored as Sessions, not as History. Extensions can remove History items, but not Session items, so your tabs might still be accessible if you use Ctrl+Shift+T a few times, or install an extension such as this one:

To recover tabs from a profile without knowing the specific file things are stored in, you can

  • save a copy of your current config directory*
  • replace the directory with the one in the backup
  • open Brave to restore the 100 tabs
  • bookmark the tabs
  • export the bookmarks and close Brave
  • replace the original config directory*
  • open Brave and load the tabs from the bookmarks

What was the extension that deleted the history?

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Thanks so much for the fast reply!

Unfortunately, I already tried Ctrl+Shift+T many times in a row and it did open a few tabs but far from all.

The extension was “Tablerone tab manager”. URL: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tablerone-tab-manager/andpjllgocabfacjlelkfpdemfklpfpo?hl=da

I tried replacing my ~/Library/Application Support/BraveSoftware folder with the one from my TimeMachine backup, but it didn’t bring back any tabs :thinking:

Best wishes,
Rasmus

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