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Manifest V3
Tool to Prevent Closing Chrome by Accident
person Patrick Bushe · calendar_today April 10, 2026
Accidentally hitting Ctrl+W or clicking the primary window close button can destroy hours of unsaved research. A failsafe tool to prevent closing Chrome by accident is implementing the session-restore protocols within the Tab Manager. While you cannot override Chrome's core window kill-switch, the extension constantly autosaves your active array every five minutes in the background. If you accidentally nuke the window, you just relaunch Chrome and hit the "Restore Crash" button to flawlessly resurrect the exact layout.