Activate a hidden function of Google’s web browser to better organize your open tabs in number.
Are you the type to multiply the tabs open on Chrome and you can not find your way? Browser version 80 begins the first tests of a new feature that is supposed to help you better organize open tabs by sorting them into groups.
Still at an early stage of development, this feature is already available in Google Chrome 80 and can be activated by all users today. To do this, you need to access the experimental functions of the browser. Find out how, in just a few clicks.
1. Access the flags
Open Chrome, then in the address bar, enter chrome: // flags and validate. You should arrive on the page dedicated to the experimental functions of the browser.
2. Activate the function
In the search box at the top of Chrome’s Experimental Features page, search for tab groups.
Click on the drop-down menu displayed on the right, and change the Default value to Enabled.
Then restart the browser by clicking on the Relaunch button displayed at the bottom of the window.
3. Create tab groups
Once Chrome relaunches, open several tabs on the browser. Right click on a tab and choose to Add it to a New Group. The tab is automatically assigned a colored border.
Then click on the colored dot to modify the color of your group, but also to give it a name. The badge should disappear and be immediately replaced with the name of the group you just defined.
To add one or more tabs to your group (hold the Shift key on the keyboard to select multiple tabs at once), right-click on the selected tab (s), go to the Add to an existing group menu, and select the group in which you want to group them.
You can also add new tabs to a group by dragging them directly into it.
You can also open a new tab in the group by right-clicking on one of the group’s tabs and clicking New Tab on the right.
Each group of tabs is identifiable by the colored border that runs under each of the tabs added to the group.
4. Delete or modify the tab groups
To remove a tab from a group, right click on the tab and choose to Remove it from group.
It is also possible to completely ungroup the tabs or to close them all at once. To do this, click on the name of the group, and choose to Ungroup it, or to Close the group.