This great new Chrome feature makes it easier to find the tab you need

Saurav Yadav October 19, 2020

Tabbed browsing is both a blessing and curse, and most of us will be familiar with the problem of having far, far too many open at once. In recent versions of Chrome, Google has been gradually introducing features that make it easier to manage a large number of open tabs, including tab grouping and tab scrolling.

Now the company is testing another feature which makes it easy to home in on a specific tab without having to manually trawl through a busy, overflowing tab bar. It eliminates the need to install an extension to benefit from the ability search open tabs.

At the moment, tab searching is only available in Chrome Canary for Windows, although it is not enabled by default (we have details about how to enable it below). When you have the feature up and running, you'll notice a new button to the right of the tab bar, next to the + button used to open a new tab.

Clicking this new button displays a search menu, and as you type, matching tabs are listed in the results in much the same way as Chrome's omnibar suggests sites as you type in it. If you prefer to keep your hands on the keyboard rather than using a mouse or trackpad, you can also access tab search using the [Ctrl]+[Shift]+[A] keyboard shortcut.

Keep tabs on it

As we mentioned, the new tab search feature is currently only available in the Canary build of Chrome. You can download this experimental – and potentially unstable – version of the browser here, and install it alongside the main build for testing purposes. Once you have done so, you can use the following steps to enable the feature.

  1. Right click on the Chrome desktop shortcut and select Properties
  2. Click in the Target field and type a space followed by -enable-features=TabSearch
  3. Click Apply and then click Continue if you're asked to provide admin access
  4. Click OK and then use the newly modified shortcut to launch Chrome and try out tab searching

Via Ghacks



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