Navigating through tab pages in Google Chrome becomes much more convenient.
Browsing bars are something you can already use in Safari and Firefox, so it’s time for Google to implement them yourself. And it’s not just added to Chrome, but it’s best you can enable it now. Just make sure you are using the latest version of the browser, Chrome 88.
If you want to try this feature yourself, navigate to chrome: // flags via your omnibox and then search for “Scrollable TabStrip”. Select ‘Activate’ if you found it.
After turning on the scrolling tabs, you can move through the tabs with your mouse or trackpad. However, you can also use the left and right arrow buttons, which you will find to the right of the new tab button if you activate another flag called “Tab Scroll Buttons”.
In addition to moving through your long list of tab pages, Chrome developers are also experimenting with how wide the tabs can be made in the latest form of Chrome Canary. You can make the tabs shrink the more you open, as now, stay at a fixed small, medium or large width, or not shrink too much at all.
We all know how difficult it can be to determine which tab is the one if you have multiple windows from the same site open. This feature therefore allows you to read the full title of pages while still having easy access to all of them.
These tab tabs are only available in Chrome Canary, not as a flag in the stable version of the browser you are likely to use. However, if the feature is doing well, there is no reason why we will not see it appear in the stable version soon.