Chrome Canary Lets You Rename Browser Windows

Sep. 29, 2020

Web browsers are constantly introducing new features to improve the multitasking experience. While Google Chrome hastab grouping to group similar tabsand is already working on anautomatic tab grouping feature, the latest Canary feature attempts to efficiently manage separate browser windows.

As spotted byTechdows, there exists a new feature named Window Naming that lets youset custom names for Chrome browser windows. This way, you can easily classify your browser windows based on its contents and quickly identify them.

For now, the feature is present behind aChrome flagin the latest Google Chrome Canary version. If you’re interested to try this upcoming feature right now, you should go tochrome://flags and search for ‘Window Naming’. Once you’ve enabled the flag, restart the browser.

You canrepeat these steps to name all the browser windows you’ve opened. It is worth noting that you will see the name of the browser window in the taskbar thumbnail preview that appears when you hover the mouse pointer over Chrome’s icon on Windows 10’s taskbar and in the recent app views triggered using Windows Key + Tab or Alt + Tab shortcuts.

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