Chrome is good at reopening your tabs. It is bad at reopening your place in them. Turn on "Continue where you left off" and you'll get your URLs back — but every page starts at the top, every video at zero, and the paragraph you were reading is somewhere in a 6,000-word article you now have to re-find. If you want to save tabs and scroll position together, the built-in setting won't do it. Here's what will.
Your options, honestly compared
| Method | Saves tabs | Saves scroll position | Saves video timestamp | Saves your selection |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome "Continue where you left off" | Yes | No | No | No |
| OneTab | Yes (as a list) | No | No | No |
| Session Buddy | Yes | No | No | No |
| UNIHODL | Yes | Yes (pixel-precise) | Yes (to the second) | Yes |
OneTab and Session Buddy are genuinely good at what they do — turning tab clutter into a saved list. But a list is a set of front doors. It doesn't remember which room you were standing in.
Why scroll position is the part that matters
Think about what you actually lose when a tab reopens at the top:
- A research doc you were 70% through — now you re-skim 70% to find your spot.
- A 40-minute talk you paused at 31:12 — now you scrub the timeline guessing.
- A pricing page where you'd selected one specific plan — gone.
The URL was never the expensive thing to recreate. Your position was. Scroll, video frame, selection — that's the state that took attention to build, and it's exactly the state a tab list drops on the floor.
How to save tabs *and* scroll in one click
UNIHODL is a Chrome extension that captures the whole posture of a page, not just its address. One shortcut saves every open tab with its scroll position, any playing video's timestamp, and the text you had selected. One click later, every tab reopens exactly where you left it — including on a different device.
- Coming from OneTab? Here's the honest OneTab vs UNIHODL breakdown.
- Coming from Session Buddy? Same treatment: the comparison.
- Want the full list of what gets captured? See what UNIHODL saves.
Save the page, not just the link.