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Best alternatives to Button: Restore Recent Tabs (2026)

10 Chrome extensions that do a similar job to Button, closest first. Each shows real store users, its rating, how recently it was updated and how many permissions it asks for.

Button: Restore Recent Tabs today

≈3K users4.2★ from 14 ratingsNot updated for 4+ years1 permissions

Button alternatives, compared

  1. 1

    Panic Button

    Close all tabs with one click or shortcut, and restore them anytime.

    ≈10K users2.2★ from 37 ratingsUpdated 5 days ago4 permissions
    • About 3.3× more users than Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  2. 2

    Tab Restore

    Tab Restore helps to restore recently closed tabs and window sessions.

    ≈10K users4.2★ from 56 ratingsUpdated 13 months ago2 permissions
    • About 3.3× more users than Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  3. 3

    Easy Undo Closed Tab

    Quickly restore closed tabs with one click

    ≈4K users4.7★ from 123 ratingsUpdated 14 months ago4 permissions
    • A similar number of users to Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (4 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
  4. 4

    Reopen closed tab Button™

    Provides 1-click "Reopen closed tab" with sessions. It's same functionality on Chrome menu.

    ≈10K users4.8★ from 170 ratingsUpdated 18 months ago3 permissions
    • About 3.3× more users than Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
  5. 5

    Recent History

    This extension displays your recent history, recently closed tabs, most visited pages and recent bookmarks in a one click pop-up.

    ≈40K users2.9★ from 562 ratingsUpdated 2 months ago5 permissions
    • About 13× more users than Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (5 vs 1)
    • Listed under Functionality & UI
  6. 6

    Hide Tabs (Panic Button)

    Easily hide and restore all open tabs with the click of a button!

    ≈9K users1.8★ from 27 ratingsUpdated 6 months ago2 permissions
    • About 3.0× more users than Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools
  7. 7

    Recently Closed

    View and restore recently closed Tabs and Windows

    ≈5K users4.3★ from 26 ratingsUpdated 22 months ago3 permissions
    • About 1.7× more users than Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (3 vs 1)
    • Listed under Functionality & UI
  8. 8

    Auto Restore Pinned Tabs

    Automatically restore pinned tabs on other windows at browser startup.

    521 users1.0★ from 1 rating1 permissions
    • About 5.8× fewer users than Button
  9. 9

    Undo Closed Tabs 2.0

    Re-open all the closed tabs 🗂️ with one click.

    ≈2K users3.9★ from 12 ratings2 permissions
    • About 1.5× fewer users than Button
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Workflow & Planning
  10. 10

    Recent Tabs

    Cycle through your most recently used tabs (MRU) like Alt+Tab, but, with the shortcut keys Ctrl+Q or Ctrl+`(~) or assign your own!

    ≈20K users4.2★ from 387 ratingsUpdated 3 months ago2 permissions
    • About 6.7× more users than Button
    • Updated more recently
    • Asks for more permissions (2 vs 1)
    • Listed under Tools

Button alternatives: questions

What is the best alternative to Button?

By users, the most popular alternative is Recent History with ≈40K users and a 2.9-star rating. The closest match by what it does is Panic Button.

Which Button alternative has the best rating?

Reopen closed tab Button™ has the highest rating of these alternatives with 50+ ratings: 4.8 out of 5 from 170 ratings.

How many alternatives to Button are there?

We list 10 close alternatives to Button on the Chrome Web Store, picked by what they do and ranked by how close they are.

Users and ratings are the figures shown on the Chrome Web Store, re-checked continuously. Alternatives are matched on name, description, category and topic. Browse best-of lists by niche.