One of Chrome’s best features for staying organized is Android: the almighty “tab groups” that allow you to group your tabs into more useful chunks rather than randomly spreading them out on separate pages across your browser or on your phone. However, you may need to enable a semi-hidden flag on your browser to access this useful feature today.
First, make sure you’re running the latest version of chrome Can be updated on your Android device via the Google Play Store. Then start the browser and enter it in the address bar: chrome: // flags
You will be taken to a screen that looks like this:
Do a quick search for “Tab Grid” and tap the drop-down menu for Grid layout tab Highlight and choose the regular “Enabled” option. Restart Chrome and tap the box to the right of your address bar to open up a few new tabs. You will immediately see that they are now arranged in a grid instead of showing pages stacked one on top of the other.
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How do you group these tabs? It’s easy. Just long press one and drag it over another. Repeat the process to add more tabs to your tab group:
You can also tap the group itself and use the “+” symbol to add new tabs as you wish. To group multiple tabs at once without having to long-press individually, tap the three-dot icon in the top right corner of this screen and select the new one Group tabs Possibility. You can then just tap on any free tabs you want to group in a group and then tap group Button to make them new friends.
In a normal Chrome window, long-pressing a hyperlink will bring up the option to open the new tab in a group:
Tap on it and the original page you viewed will now be grouped together with the new link that you long pressed. You’ll see icons for both at the bottom of your Chrome browser. This is the easy way to navigate between tabs in your group. You can use that too “+” Icon on the right to quickly add more tabs.
If you don’t like the grid layout or the tab groups, you can of course deactivate the function at any time Grid layout tab Flag as before. Just set it to “disabled” and your browser will revert to its previous state for the time being.
