It was then just a matter of scrolling through my list of extensions and repairing all the corrupted ones. I had to click on the vertical 3 dots -> More Tools -> Extensions. Doing so got all of them to show back up in the chrome menu. This option has always been available in Chrome, and to use it we just have to right-click on the tab that we want to set, and choose that option. In case it helps anyone, I finally noticed that a couple of my extensions were marked as “potentially corrupted” and I had a clickable option to “repair” them. Pin Chrome Tabs and Groups One of the simplest tricks to avoid losing tabs when closing the browser is to pin them on the browser’s tab bar. I used to have Disqus installed on this website, so here is a solution that worked out for others: There was also a post on Reddit about this, but it lead me nowhere.
For every tab you have open our renderer process usually takes around 50MB per tab, even though most people use just a single tab at a time. Tab discarding is available as an experiment in Chrome 46 and above. The Google Product Forums didn’t present any viable one. One of our next experiments in memory use is aimed at tab hoarders (like myself).
Then I searched around the web and found some solutions. The first thing I tried was restarting the browser normally. Sign in from Settings » worked for 1 visitor (Sep 2017).Every time you use Chrome the same device, the tab will appear in the same. Repair extensions » worked for 2 visitors (Nov 2016) It will remain pinned even after logging off and logging back into your computer.