I had more than 200 tabs open on opera and they would normally reopen again, even after reboots. My phone broke, but I have a backup of the external SD Card, internal SD Card, and a backup from TWRP which is of a size of 23.7 GB but does not have an obviously accessible structure. Following the advice from [another QA](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/184831/96334) , it is possible to concatenate the data.ext4.win000 to data.ext4.win009 files and access them as a tar archive (It's a good idea to cd to where you want the backup to be extracted to first): >

cat data.ext4.win??? | tar xvfi -

> > What this does is concatenate each file matching the pattern > data.ext4.win??? and then pipe the concatenated files to tar for > extraction. the - as the filename tells tar to extract from stdin. The > i option ignores zero blocks which will be in between each archive > file concatenated. > > In this example I used the ext4 formatted data partition. Change > data.ext4 to match the partition you are extracting. Although the tar command exits with

/data/magisk_backup_bd5d0aa87b96353c78a3bf3a455121d0c767089c/boot.img.gz
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

it extracts quite a few files before this hapens. However, it is probably better to simply extract each of those files on their own without concatenating them, as in the comment by alecxs: > side note: concatenating win* files is wrong, that files are standalone tarball archives Now that I have my /data directory again, I have access to /data/data/com.opera.browser and /data/app/com.opera.browser-2. What do I do with them to extract a list of urls that were open? ### Directory Structures data/data/com.opera.browser

├───app_opera
│   ├───Application Cache
│   │   └───Cache
│   │       └───index-dir
│   ├───blob_storage
│   │   └───9b46839e-470e-4a3a-aa32-e9bc919a25f0
│   ├───databases
│   ├───databases-incognito
│   ├───File System
│   │   ├───026
│   │   │   └───t
│   │   │       └───Paths
│   │   └───Origins
│   ├───GCM Store
│   │   └───Encryption
│   ├───GPUCache
│   │   └───index-dir
│   ├───IndexedDB
│   │   ├───https_hackernoon.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
│   │   ├───https_mobile.twitter.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
│   │   ├───https_www.epicgames.com_0.indexeddb.leveldb
│   │   └───https_www.independent.co.uk_0.indexeddb.leveldb
│   ├───Local Storage
│   │   └───leveldb
│   ├───paks
│   ├───Platform Notifications
│   ├───saved_pages
│   ├───Service Worker
│   │   ├───CacheStorage
│   │   │   ├───5a6f7e336992bc24678958dc2f1f9b9eec83593b
│   │   │   │   ├───281ffb34-a074-4397-a60c-e3dc55aee5e5
│   │   │   │   │   └───index-dir
│   │   │   │   └───8d34090e-e00a-4f69-9450-bbe1b4b0dc9d
│   │   │   │       └───index-dir
│   │   │   ├───96f3041722d8f6857b95786ee88fa6a107a86943
│   │   │   │   └───11ccf6ea-9e2a-4648-8c61-a635e1cca5c5
│   │   │   │       └───index-dir
│   │   │   └───e60030e2e5440743857a39cacd108634434c91f1
│   │   │       ├───0045349f-4331-4037-bf9d-e9711e515a08
│   │   │       │   └───index-dir
│   │   │       ├───4a447cca-f7ca-41f1-9464-e40337cd7ed1
│   │   │       │   └───index-dir
│   │   │       └───907b2396-da18-4880-a0df-e3608abac640
│   │   │           └───index-dir
│   │   ├───Database
│   │   └───ScriptCache
│   │       └───index-dir
│   ├───Session Storage
│   ├───shared_proto_db
│   │   └───metadata
│   ├───Sync Data
│   │   └───LevelDB
│   └───VideoDecodeStats
├───app_optimized
├───app_textures
├───app_webview
│   ├───blob_storage
│   │   └───3f7cc261-4c0e-41cc-947b-2dc712733f49
│   ├───GPUCache
│   │   └───index-dir
│   └───Local Storage
│       └───leveldb
├───cache
│   ├───cache
│   │   └───index-dir
│   ├───Crashpad
│   │   ├───attachments
│   │   ├───completed
│   │   ├───new
│   │   └───pending
│   ├───crash_dumps
│   ├───distiller
│   │   └───index-dir
│   └───okhttp
├───code_cache
├───databases
├───files
│   ├───AFRequestCache
│   ├───ds
│   │   ├───10
│   │   └───E
│   ├───images
│   │   └───share
│   ├───keychain
│   │   └───0
│   ├───reading
│   └───recently_closed_tabs
├───no_backup
└───shared_prefs

data/app/com.opera.browser-2

├───lib
│   ├───arm
│   └───arm64
└───oat
    ├───arm
    └───arm64

data/data/com.opera.browser/files/

# 332 files of the nameformat "thumbnail_-214748????"
# 3   files of the nameformat "searchengine_j_"
AFRequestCache             
appstate.bin                    
audience_network.dex     
cards_settings.dat           
ds                                  
favorite_25                     
favorite_29                     
favorite_31                     
favorites.json                  
images                           
keychain                        
newsfeedback                 
permissions.bin               
reading                          
recently_closed_tabs       
reksio.ini

### System Info I think I was on Android 7.1.1 Rooted with Magisk, but stock ROM ### Recently Closed Tabs Not what I am looking for right now, but I stumbled upon the location of those, in case a future viewer is looking for them:

data/data/com.opera.browser/files/recently_closed_tabs/state-2147481796

### Related Links * [How can I export all my open Firefox Tabs to a text file?](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/205587/96334) is posed about doing so on a living phone, but also points out where the file is located. The relevant file is called sessionstore.js. That does not seem useful for opera. grepping find for "session" only finds shared_prefs/sessionrestore.xml which contains nothing useful for my purposes. * [How can I export the list of open Chrome tabs?](https://android.stackexchange.com/a/104153/96334) ### Promising Files appstate.bin data/data/com.opera.browser/files/appstate.bin contains at least some urls and their titles, separated by a null-byte. strings appstate.bin outputs more than just the urls that were open though. And some of those doubly or not completely. I shall document my journy with this file below. Looking at data/data/com.opera.browser/files/appstate.bin shows that it's a binary data file, but it contains readable strings. Open it with vim appstate.bin or look at hexdump -C appstate.bin.

strings appstate.bin | grep -A3 reader_mode_state

already spits out quite a few urls. But it's not yet obvious to me how the structure of that file actually works. Some entries prefix the url with l or O or K or ] or not at all. In some entries the first line after "reader_mode_state" is the url, in others it is "operaui://startpage" and the url follows further below. But what stands out is that the urls all seem to start with http or https - unless you had some ftp or such open, which I'm pretty confident I did not.

strings appstate.bin | grep http

outputs 1506 lines though. some links are duplicates, others are links I do not care about. e.g. like so:

Qhttps://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/06/fix-no-sound-dummy-output-issue-in.html?m=1 
Qhttps://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/06/fix-no-sound-dummy-output-issue-in.html?m=1 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 
https://www.linuxuprising.com 

Since I don't care about duplicates, we can apply uniq to reduce that number down to 967 urls. With sort -u we would get down to 833 instead. But both are still too many. It seems to me like opera also stores the tab's history in there. Removing some obviously unwanted lines gives 523 lines, so ~260 urls:

strings appstate.bin | grep -v -e 'operaui://startpage' -e 'Speed Dial' | grep -A2 reader_mode_state | uniq | grep -v 'reader_mode_state'

As a target number to consider:

strings appstate.bin | grep reader_mode_state | wc -l
231

That means - assuming this target number is a good estimate of how many tabs were open - that I have about thirty urls too many. I think I can live with that.

Chrome updates are the worst. I've lost my tabs before when it updated, and the whole thing deleted my tabs after several times of lagging a minute after opening the app. I fixed it by reverting to the old version, disabling updates, and being happy with the base app, along with disabling the Google Play Services since I don't grab any other apps. But recently I had to acquire an app for something at work, and I forgot to disable Google Play Services in time. Now the update is causing it to lag again. I open it, I can't go to multiple tab views because it's loading, and when it finally loads, the whole thing freezes and crashes. I have a few options I think, none of them quite certain, but beggars can't be choosers, if I want to preserve the many many tabs I have. 1. Disable flags. Figure out what flags were added by the update to Chrome, and disable them. Maybe this will make it bloated and less likely to crash and freeze, because the old Chrome was sure just fine with the amount of tabs I had. 2. Find a way to transfer/save all of my tabs before resetting the app (because the bookmarks and active tabs will all disappear when I revert updates and reinstall the old Chrome. So far, I've found this: https://dev.to/piczmar_0/when-you-never-close-tabs-on-your-mobile-chrome-browser-2boj . But I am having a LOT of trouble figuring out how to follow the instructions. I have no experience coding, and I don't know what they mean by "adb" or "bash". I've managed to set the phone to develop mode and download the Android Studio application, but that's the extent of things. I am just utterly confused. By the way, I am using a Windows 10 laptop. Can anyone help guide me on how to do it?

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When the number of tabs in Chrome reaches 100, the tab counter turns into a smiley face like :D. I wish to know how many tabs are open, without doing the manual count. Is there a way?

I've tried every solution recommended. My smartphone is not rooted, it is an LG L355DL, LG K31 Rebel, Android version 10. I got many tabs on my browsers that I need to transfer & review. When I try to transfer each tab one by one using my phone, old social media sessions, Facebook links, etc, I open the tab, but they reset their URL to facebook.com/login, so I often lose where I was at completely when I try to click on them to share/transfer them to my PC or anywhere. In other words, I have to open the tab again and refresh the URL, but in the process, the URL changes & sometimes resets itself to the domain, the common thing that happens when you're not re-logged into social media, etc. So I need a walk-through to access the session/tab files via ADB method, or something. I do not have root access to my phone. I tried to do adb pull /data/data/com.styxbrowser.browser/app_chrome/Default/*, etc. I connected my PC to my phone via USB, but it doesn't work. Also, this forum post may help. Here are my terminal results/attempts: www.rentry.co/cyube. Lastly, there is interestingly another very different approach to accessing these files, it worked for my Android Kiwi browser. I connected my Android to my PC via USB, opened my Kiwi browser on my Android, turned on ADB on my phone, then went to chrome://inspect/#devices in my browser on my PC. I could see all tabs & could back them all up. It works like a charm. However, it doesn't work with Styx or Duckduckgo. Not sure why. -Thanks!

While using the Chrome browser application on my tablet, some pages and html based games have the ability to shift the page into 'full screen' browsing mode, which hides the tabs and such from the top of the page. However, I've discovered that said 'hidden tabs' are NOT actually hidden from interaction while in this mode! If there is a button or link that the game or page has near the top of the 'full screen', and you 'click them' via touch screen, it can and WILL change to the tab hidden behind it or even close it, depending on where you click. The only way to safely interact with any such buttons or links at the 'top' of a full screen web page is to drag down the page, expose all the menus and tabs, THEN click on the now lower button or link to safely activate or follow it. This is VERY frustrating when you need to hit said button a dozen or so times. Is there a way to make it so you can't interact with the tabs in Chrome Browser when said tabs are hidden from view?

When Google Chrome rolled out the tab group feature on Android, it used to show the number of tab groups. Ever since a recent update, they made it so that Chrome shows the total number of tabs instead. Is there a way to revert this? " class="img-fluid rounded" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 10px 0;" loading="lazy">

I have so many tabs open in Chrome that I have been literally unable to close them, and my browser has been rendered largely useless. HELP! The central problem is that the focus bounces from tab to tab so fast that I can not stay on any one tab long enough to close it. In addition the "three dots" menu in the upper right, which I believe is supposed to have a "close all tabs" button, does only on rare occasions. I do not know what determines if this button is present or how to get it back when it is not. I'd accept an answer to any one of these questions), except: not 1) if there is no way to navigate to the "close all tabs" button. 1. Is there a map somewhere that shows which Chrome controls are available under what circumstances, so I can navigate to the "close all tabs" button? 2. Is there a way to freeze tabs in place, so that the focus changes only when I select a different tab? This is what I want most, because I would like to be able to open a tab and look at it, and sometimes save some info., before deciding if I want to close it. 3. Is there a way to make the "close all tabs" button appear when it is not on the three dots menu? 4. If there is no easy way to solve this with native Chrome, is there an app that would let me do so? If it does not provide a way to freeze the tabs in place, it has to work even though the focus is bouncing rapidly from tab to tab. I'm on a Moto G with Stylus 5G running Android 12, with security updates to August 2022 Thanks! I look forward to hearing from you. } --andrewH

I've been trying to find a method to export all my currently open tabs in the Android Firefox browser. Unfortunately this seem impossible from default browser installation and very hard to do from command line as the SQLite3 database that Firefox is using, contains too many tables and hard to find the right query. Apparently this is possible for Google Chrome using [THESE](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/56635/how-can-i-export-the-list-of-open-chrome-tabs) hacks. I would like to have each URL on a separate line in a text file.

I have an elderly friend that has an app - the app has a button that opens a website. When this person taps that button multiple times during the day a new browser tab opens every time. I can't teach this person how to close tabs, they just don't get it and at the end of a week that have 30 tabs open. Naturally the tablet slows to a crawl.... Is there a setting that prevents new tabs from being opened? Instead just using only one tab for everything? Thanks for the help....

Just like the title suggests. I've been learning Android Development for a year now but I do not know where to approach this particular issue (It might be just impossible but I'm giving it a try). Is there any way to export the list of open Chrome tabs (or groups) without the need for a PC? I just wanna export, say, a hundred tabs into my device without having to do it in the [script-y way](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/56635/how-can-i-export-the-list-of-open-chrome-tabs/193858#193858) . Or did I misunderstand the answers? I've been looking for 4 hours now without any success or breakthrough.

I have been following https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/56635/how-can-i-export-the-list-of-open-chrome-tabs/ and was able to use Chrome's native method, to generate the tabs list. Not having tried the scripting tips yet, I saved it manually. But the list is disordered, and not broken by tab groups (of which I have a lot...). The native sync feature discards the groups too. Is there a method to get a list of tabs from android chrome **by group**? As a less ideal alternative, is there a way to sync/send an entire, single group from android Chrome to the PC client?

I've tried with *chrome://flags/#* disabling *tab-grid-layout* reloading several times the browser, but no change works. I've read a lot of articles on the web, some of them indicate this procedure, others to disable also flags like *tab-groups*, and so on, but currently nothing seems to work. (In fact, *tab-groups*, on the last Chrome realise, isn't available.) Any solution?

A while back, I asked [this question](https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/229747/disabling-chrome-tab-groups) about disabling tab groups in Chrome v85. And that worked. Now in Chrome version 91 they're back, with a vengeance. Trouble is, the flag that let me solve it last time is gone. The only flag that relates to tab groups is Tab Groups Continuation. And that's still disabled. Is there a way of disabling them hiding away somewhere, or is this a lost cause?

My phone (Samsung S7 running Android 8.0.0) recently updated to Chrome version 85, and with it came tab groups. I am sure this is a welcome thing for many, but I rarely have more than 8 tabs open at any time. Thus the ability to group tabs makes little sense for me. Unfortunately, I can't seem to avoid it. When holding on a link, "Open in new tab" has become "Open in new tab in group", and there is no option to open it just as a separate tab. This makes my regular tab cleaning a lot more cumbersome, as now I suddenly have two or three groups where I want to remove one or two tabs each, rather than just four tabs I want to close. Is there a way to remove tab grouping, or at least a way to hide it away so that I don't have to bother with it during casual internet browsing? At the very least, I can't find anything even remotely relevant in the settings, and a rudimentary internet search has only provided news of the feature, not any details on removing it.

I make heavy use of my tablet for research & typically have 200 to 500 tabs open. So I have been looking forward to the alternate grid layout and to Chrome Tab Groups for Android, which would make my life a lot easier. However these features, which I understood to be activated by default as of Chrome 88, do not seem to be available from my instance of Chrome (version 89). I have the file folder-style row of tabs across the top. I have neither a switch to grid mode button nor the hollow square with the number of open tabs inside. I have enabled the flags for tab grid layout, tab groups, tab group continuation, and tab group UI improvements, and restarted Chrome several times, all with no change I can see. I couldn't find anything on the Google help site that offered any glimmer of hope -- nor of discouragement. I can not even think of anything else to try. Help! I am running Chrome under Android 10 on a Galaxy Tab A. Oh, one more thing. I doubt this is relevant, but when I first got this tablet from Amazon, it took some work to convince it that its home was not in Mexico. Maybe there are still some Mexico-base settings causing a problem? Just a long shot.

So my nexus 6p is getting on in years, and I'd like to back up my chrome tabs onto another phone. I'm aware there's a sync function, but that: 1. Does not cover the back and forward data from each tab, and 2. Does not seem to go past a few dozen tabs - I have around 1000+ tabs open. Is there anything I can do to move or transfer the data, or should I just get to searching through each tab and copy-pasting them? Also, the phone isn't currently rooted from what I recall - I'm willing to try it but I've been told that may be counterproductive and likely wipe the data. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

I'm on Google Pixel 2, Android 11, Chrome 87.0.4280.101. I have 494 open tabs, as I explain in my answer here on how to count them . I need to selectively close about 450 of them, or just close all of them then re-open about 20 to 50 of them. How do I mass-close many or all of them at once? The last time I mass-closed hundreds of tabs manually I sat there for like 30 minutes swiping until they were all closed. I don't want to do that again. That was ridiculous. (Compared to full computers, phones are garbage. :)) This tablet-specific answer doesn't seem to apply to phones, or to apply anymore to the latest versions, so it does _not_ contain an answer that works for me: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/62319/how-do-i-close-all-tabs-in-chrome-for-android . Here's what I see in my Chrome menu when I click on the 3 dots in the top-right corner: This is in French. Translation: > New Tab > New Incognito tab > Favorites > Recent tabs > History > Downloads > Translate > Share > Search on the page > Add to welcome screen > Version for computer > Settings > Help and Feedback

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I'm trying out the Tor browser on Android 9.0 (device is not rooted). When I open a page and change tabs before the new page is fully loaded, the loading process is interrupted and cannot be resumed. Changing back to the "inactivated" tab and reloading does not work, the tab has to be closed and the page needs to be loaded from a new tab. As usual, the Tor browser comes bundled with NoScript and HTTPS Everywhere, I'm also using the uBlock Origin extension (any opinion on this?). Background data is disabled for all apps except messengers and the max. number of background processes (developer options) is set to zero. I have tried changing the security settings as well as disabling uBO, but the problem persists... Now that I think of it, I encountered the same issue using the Brave browser on Android. Can anyone reproduce this behaviour and tell me what's causing it? This is extremely annoying, as using Tor increases loading time with some pages, I therefore want to be able to switch to a different tab while waiting.