Google isn’t likely too worried about losing its majority market share to its rivals, given its near-complete dominance on the desktop. And Opera earlier this year introduced a new version of its web browser that lets you organize tabs into various workspaces. For instance, Vivaldi offers automatic tab stacking to keep tab clutter down. Meanwhile, other browser makers tapped into consumer demand for better tab management solutions to make that a selling point for their own Chrome alternatives. That led to the creation of a cottage industry of tab management tools like OneTab, Workona, Toby and many others.
We found we had to restart Chrome twice to get the new interface to appear.Despite the prevalence of the “too-many-tabs” problem, Google had yet to introduce a solution for Chrome users. We found we were able to get them to appear by navigating to chrome://flags in the address bar, and then searching and enabling the “Tab Grid Layout,” “Tab Groups,” “Tab Groups Continuation,” and “Tab Groups UI Improvements” options. However, you can manually enable them via Chrome’s experimental flags. On Android you can organize tabs into groups from the grid layout screen by dragging them onto one another, and there are also options to form tab groups in the overflow menu, as well as the context menu that opens when you long-press to open a new tab.Īlthough 9to5Google notes that the features started rolling out last week, they don’t appear to be available for every Chrome user just yet. Grouping tabs also gives you a new shortcut to hop between tabs in the same group via a menu that appears at the bottom of the app. Tab groups, meanwhile, are similar to a feature that’s been available on Chrome’s desktop version since last year, and offer a more convenient way to organize your tabs.
When browsing a tab that’s part of a group, shortcuts to switch to other grouped tabs appear at the bottom of the app.
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