14 DAY TRIAL // Google Chrome is finally starting to work on open tabs sync. It's been at it for a while, but it was an experimental feature and it didn't really work fully, until now. It's still experimental and it still doesn't work by default, but the latest Chromium builds have a new entry in the new tab page labeled Other devices.
There you'll find a list of all open tabs on your other sessions in Chrome, Chromium or Chrome for Android.
That last part is important, as the Chrome for Android Beta was the first to introduce open tab sync, enabled by default. The desktop versions of Chrome still have the feature hidden behind a flag.
If you enable that flag though, open tab sync will work in the background. It's only in the latest Chromium builds, as well as in Chrome for Android, that you'll actually be able to make use of the feature.
Put another way, tabs open in Chrome, the dev channel version for example, will be synced, but there's no way of accessing tabs open on other devices, except in Chromium, for now.
Unfortunately, the feature suffers from the same major drawback that it did when it launched in Chrome for Android, it only syncs tabs from running browser.
If you close Chrome on your desktop, either you just close the browser or shut down the computer, you won't be able to access your last opened tabs on your laptop or your phone.
This limitation greatly reduces the usefulness of the feature. One of the most obvious use cases is having to go away from your computer, but wanting to take your session with you. Most likely, you're going to shut down your computer when you leave meaning that open tab sync won't work.