Organize your tabs according to your activities and find them more easily by arranging them in identified groups.
Multiplying the tabs open in a web browser can turn into chaos very quickly. If it is increasingly difficult for you to identify and find some of the dozen tabs open in your browser, it is probably time to consider organizing them.
If you are using Google Chrome, the solution is all found. Google’s web browser has a feature to store open tabs in different groups that can be renamed and identified using colors.
With this handy feature, you can reduce the hold of unused tabs in the tab bar and thus stay focused on those necessary for the task you are working on.
Even better, to help you easily reopen a closed group of tabs, Chrome has been integrating a feature for the past few weeks that can save tabs stored in a group. Here is a quick overview of the best practices to adopt to better manage your tabs.
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1. Create a group
Open Chrome and go to the websites you usually visit by opening them in new tabs.
Right click on any of the tabs and choose to Add it to a New Group.
In the pop-up that appears, enter the name of your group then assign it a color by clicking on one of the colored dots. Your group is ready and the first tab in it will automatically display a border in the color selected for the group.
Repeat the manipulation on other tabs if you want to create other groups.
2. Add tabs to your groups
Once your different groups have been created, you can add other tabs to them.
Right click on one of them then in Add tab to group, select the tab group you just created.
Repeat the operation as many times as necessary to add other tabs to your groups.
Note that it is also possible to add several tabs at once to a group. To do this, hold down the CTRL key on the keyboard and click one by one on all the tabs to add them to your selection.
Then right-click on your selected tabs and, in Add tabs to a group, choose the tab group in which to add them.
You can also choose to directly open a new blank tab in a tab group. To do this, go to a group of tabs, right click and choose New tab in the group.
3. Manage your tab groups
To open or collapse a group of tabs, simply click on its name.
If one of the tabs in a group doesn’t need to be there anymore, but you want to keep it open, right-click on it and choose to Remove it from group.
You can also decide to undo a group of tabs very simply, by right-clicking on a group, then choosing the Ungroup option.
You can also simply decide to completely close a group of tabs by choosing the option Close group.
Ultimately, tab management within Google Chrome should continue to improve. Google had launched a test, a few months ago, an experimental function capable of automatically grouping open tabs.
More recently, the American company integrated in the Canary version of its Web browser, an option to save the groups of tabs, to recover them more easily when they have been closed.