Google Chrome Is Working on an Automatic Tab Grouping Feature to Help Save Time

Sep. 18, 2020

Google Chrome recentlystarted rolling outthe much-awaited tab groups features. It enables users to better organize open tabs by clubbing them together under one roof. You can create labels for tab group to ease the identification of, say work and leisure, web pages in the browser. This is a tedious task of its own and Google is now looking forward to lending a hand with the same.

As spotted in the latestChrome Canarybuild, Google is now building an automatic tab grouping feature. There’s a flag, titled #tabs-groups-auto-create, is currently visible in Chrome Canary build #87.0.4266.0 but does not seem to work when enabled.

When enabled, this feature will see Chrome‘automatically create a new group when opening a tab with the same domain as its parenting tab.’This means if you’re using Twitter and create a ‘Tab Group’ with the social media platform as the parent, then all of the other Twitter instances you open in a new tab will be clubbed under this group. At least, that’s what I gather from the explanation of the feature.

I enabled the automatic tab grouping feature and checked it out but could not see it in action. We will have to wait for Google to shed more light on the same to know better, so stay tuned for more updates.