The use of tabs in today’s web browsers has become commonplace, as well as essential. These are elements that we sometimes accumulate in a massive way, all open and in operation. That is why correctly managing these tabs in browsers such as Firefox or Chrome is essential to improve the browsing experience.
For all this, in these same lines we are going to tell you everything related to the new feature of Chrome tab groups. This will help us to order all the active tabs at that time. And it is that we are already working, studying, or in our leisure time, we generally have many tabs open in the Google browser. Therefore this can sometimes make it difficult for us to find what we are really looking for among all those elements in execution .
It is true that there are many third-party extensions to manage and organize tabs , but from now on this function is incorporated directly into Chrome . We are referring to a functionality to sort these tabs that is coming to the stable version of Chrome 81 and later. At first all this was seen on the Canary and Dev channels and now it has reached the stable channel.
Activate and use native Chrome tab groups
All this allows us to create groups directly from the tabs, in addition to being able to create multiple groups and then order the tabs within them. So we can keep them organized at all times for a faster location. On the other hand we will also have the possibility of keeping a record of the different groups, since we can name them or choose color codes to distinguish them.
Say that this new feature is being deployed on the stable Chrome channel , so it is imperative that we update to the latest version of the software. After having the latest version of Chrome, we right- click on any tab. Here we will see if we get an option to create a group. It may be the case that we do not see it by default yet, but we can enable it by hand.
Enable tab groups feature
Therefore, to activate this function, we go to the test page by writing chrome: // flags in the address bar. In the search box we write Tab groups to locate the entry that interests us. Then we configure it as Enabled so that it starts working.
Use groups to organize your tabs in the browser
After enabling the feature, we will have some grouping options when we right click on a tab . Initially, when you do this, we will see that an option already appears to add to a new group or add to an existing group. With the first one we have the possibility to create a new customized group of tabs.
Also, when we create a new group , we can add a name to it and choose a representative color . Then, later, we can already add any tab to that created element with the option of adding to an existing group.
At this point it is worth mentioning that the tabs of the same groups are arranged together with their name. Similarly, that name has the selected color code that also covers all the tabs grouped here. As expected, we can create as many groups as we need, as well as close those that are no longer necessary.
It is also very easy to remove a tab from a group, since by right-clicking on a tab in a group, we will have options to change groups and remove them from it. The administration of the groups is also simple, by clicking on the name we can edit the name , change the color, add more tabs, etc.