Wednesday 1 April 2015

Where does chrome store open tabs information?

Recently I had a problem with a upgrade from Mavericks to Yosemite.
The upgrade failed.
Catastrophically.
But I had backed up all the main folders I might need in case of such a folder.

For reference, these are:

- /private
- /Library
- /Applications
- /Users/my_home_folder

I had to burn the machine and install Yosemite from scratch.

Now one of the things I wanted to recover was the current tabs I had open in Chrome.
The reason being was that some of them were very, very interesting and I had not bookmarked them.

I did a little bit of research, but not much turned up.
So I figured it out myself.

Let's say you have a folder ~/OldMachineBackup and it has the folders mentioned above in it.

So to find out what tabs you had open:

cd ~/OldMachineBackup
strings Application\ Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Current\ Tabs | egrep '^http' | sort | uniq

And there you have them. A list of http addresses.

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