Whether you are a student, educator, professional, or regular user, you may sometimes run into a situation where you have dozens of tabs open in Google Chrome. Instead of finding a relevant tab with a tiny site favicon, pin important tabs and categorize relevant tabs under a single group in Google Chrome.
Dealing with numerous tabs is never an ideal situation, especially when you have several types of tabs, such as social media, banking, news, research, sports, and more, open in Google Chrome. You can create a Tech group and add tabs from Android Police, Make Use Of, Game Rant, and more under it. Similarly, you can organize your Instagram feed, LinkedIn home, and Reddit tabs under the Social group in Chrome.
Google Chrome supports tab groups on all the desktop apps and thetop budget Android phones. However, the same isn’t available on Chrome for the iPhone and iPad.
How to pin tabs in Google Chrome
If you only need to track a few important tabs, pin them in Google Chrome. It’s a quick way to preserve relevant tabs in Chrome.
You can pin several tabs in Google Chrome. The web browser removes the Close button to prevent closing the tab accidentally. When you relaunch Google Chrome, it reloads all your pinned tabs. You can pin frequently used tabs such as your Gmail inbox, Google Drive, Facebook feed, Google Docs, and more on Chrome.
How to create tab groups in Google Chrome desktop
A tab group is another tool to organize your Google Chrome browser tabs. Let’s check it in action.
Manage tab groups in Google Chrome
Managing existing group tabs is easy in Google Chrome. When you right-click on a tab group, you have several options:
Reopen your tab group
Did you accidentally close a group in Chrome and lose all your tabs? You can restore them with a couple of clicks. Here’s how.
Save your tab groups in Google Chrome
While you can always bookmark a Chrome tab, there’s no way to save the entire tab group in the official build. The feature is available, but it’s buried in the Chrome Flags menu. Follow the steps below to turn it on and save your tab groups to refer to them later.
Your saved Chrome tab groups appear on the left side of the bookmark bar. You can click it to launch the group with all the tabs or right-click on it to check tabs in the drop-down menu. Microsoft offers a similar feature calledCollectionson the Edge browser on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
How to group your Google Chrome tabs on Android
You can also use the tab groups feature on Google Chrome for Android. Follow the tutorial below to create a group of tabs on mobile.
When you are in a tab group, you see other tabs as thumbnails at the bottom. It offers a better navigation experience to switch between tabs in a group.
The feature is even more useful on small screens as you have less space to manage tabs. With tab groups, you can efficiently manage your web pages without scrolling through them endlessly.
Clean up the tabs mess in Google Chrome
Tab groups may not be available on an outdated Chrome build. Read our dedicated post toupdate Google Chrome to the newest version. When you have the latest Chrome app, learn thetop tips and tricksandbest extensionsto get the best out of Google’s desktop browser.
