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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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Reset to default
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Go to chrome://history/syncedTabs on another computer. All of your tabs should show.

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  • Note: this would only work if only the Chrome was allowed to use sync feature prior to occurrence of the problem.
    – Firelord ♦
    Commented Feb 27, 2021 at 12:26
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Disable prefetch (Settings > Privacy/Security > Preload) and then wait for the smiley face to show up in the "number of tabs" box. Then e-mail each URL to yourself until the number of tabs is functional. At which point you can look for any flags that might ACTUALLY prevent loading of non-dominant tabs COMPLETELY.

...Or, you know, send ALL URLs so that you can actually NOT USE CHROME.

BlitzMail will help. Yellow tag-shaped icon - hidden in F-Droid app, so find it on the website/FoxyDroid/etc.

ADB is a command line thing that is most commonly used for rooting. It is only used via PC, and it is obviously useless for seeing Chrome tabs since this would only be plain text in a command prompt window. Probably with some code and uniform-size font just to make it even more unusable (that's what happens if you view, for example, Firefox's bookmark or history files via notepad/text editor).

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