Working with many tabs at once can be very chaotic. Surely more than once we have come across, after browsing for a long time, with dozens of tabs open. Thanks to them we can return to any previous website in a matter of seconds. However, what happens when we want to go back to a previous page? Among all the open tabs it is difficult to find the one we are looking for. Luckily, Chrome will shortly receive a feature that will help us find the tabs we are looking for much easier: a thumbnail of the tab content .
This new function is not something revolutionary , nor is it new, since there are many browsers that already have it. Nor is it something you can live without. However, it is a feature that, without a doubt, will help us to work better with our browser. Above all, if we are one of those people who accumulate tabs and then we do not find the one we want.
Thumbnails in tabs: a necessary thing in Chrome
The Beta and Canary versions of Chrome (the two versions under development) already have this new feature enabled. However, Google has not yet considered it stable enough to enable it for all users within the stable branch of the browser.
What this new feature does is that, when we place the mouse over a tab that we have open, we will automatically see a thumbnail of the page in question.
Even when we do not see the name of the tab, due to the number of them that we have open in the browser, this simple novelty will help us to locate the tab we are looking for in seconds.
Chrome will show the thumbnail of any tab that we have open in the browser, except for the tab that we have open at the moment. In addition, this feature also works in Incognito Mode, which can be a good thing, or a bad thing, depending on how we use this browsing mode.
How to test this feature now
This new feature is now available to Google Chrome users, specifically within the Canary and Beta branches. Therefore, if we use either of these two versions, simply by opening the browser and loading a couple of webs in tabs, we can see how, when we place the mouse over them, the corresponding thumbnail appears.
We can also try to activate it in the stable version of the browser . To do this, we simply have to write “chrome: // flags /” in the address bar, and enable the following experimental functions:
- Tab Hover Cards
- Tab Hover Card Images
We restart the browser and this feature should already be available. However, we recommend that you wait a little longer to receive it officially, since, right now, it could give us problems.
With the arrival of Chrome 86 to all users, this function should be activated by default, so we would not have to do anything else to use it. The next Chrome update should reach all users on October 6 .