Snooze a tab in five steps

  1. Install TabLater. Add it from the Chrome Web Store and pin it so the icon stays visible in your toolbar.
  2. Open the tab you want to snooze. Go to the page that should disappear for now and come back later.
  3. Open TabLater. Click the TabLater icon in the toolbar to open the snooze popup for the current tab.
  4. Type when it should come back. Use plain language like tomorrow 9am, next Friday, or every Monday. You can also pick a preset or set an exact date and time.
  5. Snooze it. Confirm. TabLater closes the tab immediately and reopens it automatically at the time you set — even if you restart Chrome in between.

The shortcut

The fastest way is typing. Instead of clicking through a date picker, write when the tab should return and TabLater parses it. That plain-language input is the main reason snoozing stays a one-line action.

Ways to set the time

  • Natural language: in 2 hours, tonight, tomorrow morning, next Friday 3pm.
  • Recurring: every Monday 8am, every weekday, or the 1st of the month.
  • Presets: quick buttons for common delays.
  • Exact: pick a specific date and time.

Snooze many tabs at once

You do not have to snooze tabs one by one. Send a single page to a future time when it has its own deadline, or set a recurring schedule for a dashboard or report you open on a routine.

What happens after you snooze

The tab leaves your window right away, so your browser stays clean. At the scheduled time it opens again with a Chrome notification. Your scheduled tabs, notes, and history live in chrome.storage.local on your device — no account, no cloud sync, no tracking of tab content.

Snoozing is for tabs you choose to set aside. If you instead closed tabs by accident, that is a different fix — here is how to recover lost browser tabs.

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Last updated: June 5, 2026