If you’re working on several projects at the same time or have opened multiple sites on different topics and don’t want to get lost in them, grouping tabs will help you avoid clutter and find the tabs you need more of. easily. Next, we’ll tell you how to work with this functionality, and note that similar instructions apply to Microsoft’s Edge browser as well.

How to group tabs

You can create tab groups in several ways:

• You can select several tabs by pressing the Ctrl key (or Shift by clicking on the first and last tabs – then all the pages between them will be highlighted), and then click on any of them with the right mouse button to perform the action. “Add a tab to a new group” menu item.
• You can also start building from just one tab. To do this, click with the right mouse button and select the menu “Add tab to new group”. Do the same to add the next one, but select the group you just created and not “New group” from the drop-down menu.
• If you’ve already created a group – it doesn’t matter how many items it contains – you can also add new tabs to the group using simple drag and drop. Hold down the tab you want with the left (home) mouse button and drag it to your group.

When a group is created, you will see a colored circle and a prominent line of the same color under all the tabs included in the group.

How to manage tab groups

Tab groups offer a variety of settings. Once a group is created, it can be collapsed and expanded for easy viewing. It does this simply by clicking the left mouse button in a circle.

By right clicking on the circle you will access the group settings menu.

There you can:

• change group color,
• rename group
• create a new tab in it,
• ungroup and close.
• You can also move the entire group to a new browser window.

The latter can also be done by dragging, holding the circle with the cursor and dragging down.

save for the future

Currently the browser does not save tab groups to memory when closed. However, there is an experimental feature that will allow you to do this. You have to open it yourself.

• Open a new tab in Chrome and type “chrome://flags” in the search field.
• To enter “tab groups” in the search box at the top.
• adjacent, next to “Save Tab Groups” click on the drop-down menu (where to write “Default”) and select “Activated”.
• A message “Your changes will take effect the next time you restart Chrome” appears at the bottom of the browser window (Changes will take effect the next time you restart Chrome) and a large blue button “Restart”. Click it and wait for your browser to restart.
• After that, you will see a switch named in the tab groups menu. “Save Group”.

Currently, this feature works very strangely and not always in the same way. First, it adds a separate block to the Bookmarks Panel, named similarly to a group of tabs. Click on it and you will see all your tabs as if in a folder. If you close the browser, this block will disappear. You can find your closed tabs in History. Click the three dots in the upper right corner of the window and select “History”. This menu can have more than one secondary drop-down list. A group of tabs will be saved to one of them.

Obviously, the company will further improve the save functionality as it currently works quite “crooked”. However, even without tab grouping, it can make it easier to organize your work.