Life-Saving Feature for Those Who Open 30 Tabs in Chrome: How to Use Tab Groups?

If dozens of tabs accumulate at the top of the screen while working in Chrome, it can become difficult to understand which tab is which after a while.

Chrome Tab Groups feature allows you to organize tabs by topic.

According to Google's current Chrome help page, tabs can be grouped, given names, new tabs can be added to the group, and the group can be closed and reopened later. When tabs and history synchronization is used in the Google account, changes in tab groups can be saved and synchronized between devices.

How to create a tab group in Chrome?

1. Open Chrome.
2. Right-click on a tab you want to group.
3. Add tab to group.
4. New group.
5. Give the group a name.

For example:

• YouTube
• News
• Work
• Research
• Shopping
• Social media

.

How do you add a new tab to an existing group?

You can drag and drop a tab into the existing group. Alternatively, you can right-click on the tab and select an existing group.

How do you close a tab group?

With the group open, right click and:

Close group

option.

There is an interesting detail here: According to Google, the closed group does not have to be completely deleted; can be reopened later via the saved tab group.

What should users of tab groups do frequently?

From the appearance settings in Chrome Show saved tab groups. There are also options for automatically pinning new tab groups to the bookmarks bar.

Can tab groups work across devices?

Google's Chrome help page states that changes to tab groups are automatically saved and synced across devices when history and tabs are synced with a Google account.

For example, being able to use a workgroup you created on a computer on other devices can be very useful, especially for people doing research.

How to delete a tab group?

1. Right click on the group name.
2. Delete group.
3. Confirm transaction.

Google notes that deleting the group may also affect other synchronized devices that use the same Google account. So make sure you really want to delete it.

What's the real advantage of tab groups?

The goal is not just to beautify the screen.

For example, when creating a YouTube video:

Research, resources, rival videos, images and scenario.

So you can create workspaces organized by subject instead of getting lost in 30 tabs.