If you are someone who likes to (or just has to) have a lot of browser tabs open, Tab Groups are going to change your life. Tab Groups are a way to organize your browser tabs into different groups that are color coded (much like labels). It’s not only a great way to organize your tabs but these groups are collapsible. If you’re not using a tab group, or just want to work on the tabs in a specific group, you can collapse all the other groups which means you’ll actually be able to see part of the title of each tab instead of just the icon. If you work in a lot of Google Sheets, like I do, this is super helpful. There’s nothing more time consuming than flipping through green Google Sheets icons to find the correct spreadsheet…

Google launched Tab Groups for Chrome in Beta in March of 2020 – read article here. However, this feature is now GA so you don’t need to do anything to enable it anymore; it is on by default. You just need to know how to use it.

Microsoft Edge, since it is also based on Chromium, also has support for Tab Groups and launched support for it around March/April of 2020 as well. However, unlike Google Chrome you do need to enable this as it is still an experimental feature.

Here’s how to enable it. However, before you do, be warned that it will require a browser reboot.

Enabling Tab Groups in Edge

edge://flags/#edge-tab-groups

How to Use Tab Groups

Using Tab Groups is as easy as right-clicking any open tab and choosing Add to Tab Group and then choosing New Group. You can name and rename these Tab Groups and even color code them. Right-click any other open tab and choose Add to Tab Group, but this time instead of clicking New Group, select the Tab Group you want to add it to. You can also drag tabs into Tab Groups and remove tabs from Tab Groups by either right clicking and choosing Remove from Tab Group or by just dragging the tab out of the group.