How to use Chrome Tab Groups
If you have ever opened too many tabs and lost track of what you had open or if you work in many web apps and web pages during your workday, you may benefit from the new Chrome feature 'Tab Groups'.
Before I discuss how to add this, I should explain that this is an experimental feature currently located in 'Chrome Fags' so Google could change it at any time or discontinue it. But this is how all new Chrome features start so there is a good chance it will be a standard feature down the line.
How to enable it
Type into the URL box in chrome: chrome://flags/
Then search for Tab Groups
Set the switch on the right to enable
Restart the browser
How to use
Right-click on a tab, and it will let you add a new group or add the tab to an existing group
Once you have created the group, you can change its name and colour
You can drag tabs into a group
Pick up a group as a new window
Or close all of the tabs in one group at the same time
As a power user, who often has many tabs open at the same time, I have found this simple addition very useful to organise things.
At Metavoxx we run all of our web apps in separate tabs, this gives you the power jump from the desktop user interface to email, to messaging, to a video call, to the CRM just by switching tabs. We have colour coded the favicon of each of our applications, so it becomes intuitive to know which is which. So although Metavoxx can be used fine without tab groups, this new feature adds a new dimension to working in a browser that I think is worth exploring for the power user.
Why not give it a go and let me know what you think.