Thanks for reporting!

Chrome supports opening tabs from other devices, if both have sync enabled.

The steps to use this:
1. Sign in to Chrome and enable sync on both devices (please beware of other side effects like syncing local bookmarks and passwords, so you might want to avoid this if it's a shared device). You can do this via Settings.

2. Open either of:
2.1. chrome://history (Ctrl+H), then "Tabs from other devices"
2.2. Chrome menu > History

You should see open tabs from other devices, and you can open them locally. There is an analogous feature on mobile too.

Let me know if this is what you were looking for, or why it doesn't work for you.

Hello mastiz,

I saw "Sign in" and "Sync" before but never tried them. Kind of overkill. For privacy reasons I never signed in.

Traditionally if there are many opened tabs to transfer, I bookmark all opened tabs and export bookmarks to a file and copy that file to the laptop via a USB stick and restore it in the laptop's Chrome. This is too cumbersome.

What about this: Currently there is a "Bookmark all tabs" menu command; what about changing it to a submenu "Send all tabs" which has several sub menu commands:
     - to my bookmarks
     - to a file
     - to another device
     - to an email address
     - etc.

If the user chooses "Send all tabs -> to another device", Chrome will wirelessly search for other devices running Chrome and transfer all tabs to a device selected by the user; no sign-in is required.

This could also make tab sharing easier between friends and coworkers, which is not possible with the sign-in and sync approach.

My problem with the sign in + sync approach is privacy concerns and ease of use. A "Send all/selected tabs" submenu would be much more straightforward. Consider it an extension to the existing bookmark system, and I think it can co-exist well with the sign in + sync system.

Thanks for clarifying!

Wrt to ease of use: I see you're proposing a push-like usage flow that starts on the first device. This has been discussed in the past under the assumption that the user is signed in, but we apparently didn't have a tracking bug so I just filed one: crbug.com/820404.

Wrt to your privacy concerns, you should know that you could enable sync and restrict it to open tabs only. And if you want extra privacy, you can "Encrypt synced data with your own sync passphrase" in settings. This means E2E encryption for your data.

Nevertheless, it seems like not signing in is a hard requirement for this feature request, and we haven't considered this yet. I'm leaving this open but adjusting the priority since there are supported alternatives to the requested feature as described above.

Wrt to your precise proposal: on a first thought, it feels like the security implications of Chrome (the laptop, in your case) accepting tabs from untrusted sources (any clients on the same Wifi?) will be hard to mitigate. It could involve introducing some concept of one-off pairing/bonding, so we could as well use bluetooth instead.

Thank you.

As a long-time software developer and user, I see this as a potential browser revolution. You know, first there was the multi-tab revolution introduced by Firefox, and then there was the multi-process revolution introduced by Chrome, and today it's a multi-device world and I think device is the new dimension in people's browsing experience and we should make it easy for tabs to move between devices.

I feel the need for this feature every day. I suggest that if wireless transfer can't be immediately implemented, Google can first implement:
  Send all/selected tabs
    - to my bookmarks
    - to a file
    - to an email address

Then I would be able to send all opened tabs (pinned tabs such as Gmail and Facebook are excluded by default) to a file on a USB stick and plug that USB stick on my laptop to restore the saved tabs. It would be the next best thing beside a wireless direct transfer.

Bug 879312 is another somewhat similar request.