I came across this solution when I was looking to recover tabs that had been permanently closed after my browser crashed one day. In order to access the information you require, your device needs to be rooted so you device needs to be rooted and should havecan run a file explorer app that canwith access to the root files installed on your device. ES File Explorer or Root Explorer are my recommendations.
Navigate to the root folder of your device (the protected system partition) → select
DATA
→ selectcom.android.chrome
.There are several places where you may find information about your current tabs.
The first folder to check is
app_tabs
, then0
. In this folder there should be a file calledtab_state
which contains a list of all your current tabs.There are also other files in this folder called
tab3
,tab4
, etc. that contain info about current tabs.IMO, you need a special "text editor / sql editor" to read the content of some of these files as the encoding is different.
Next place to look is
/data/com.android.chrome/app_chrome/Default/
. In this folder you'll find a file calledHistory
. Depending on your situation, you may find a good list of recent site visits here.Finally, navigate to the
Sync Data folder
. In here, you will find the information that's being synced to Google (and this should include all the tabs you currently have synced on other devices).
- In the file
SyncData.sqlite3
, you'll also find a history of all your Google searches (which I sometimes find to be an interesting read). - You'll need an Sqlite3 data browser program on your PC in order to read this file. The app should be able to export to a highly usable
.CSV
or.XLS
file that you can open in MS Excel.
This could be helpful to someone I assume.