Google wants to take the pain out of manually creating tab groups from the users, for that, the Chromium team is currently testing a feature called “Tab groups Auto Create”, which when enabled, groups will be created automatically.
The tab groups feature spent a long time in development and is available to everyone in Chrome 85 stable.
The feature is available by default, but still, the user needs to do the work and create tab groups on different subjects on his own.
How it would be when Chrome handles this on behalf of the user? Google is currently testing exactly that.
The “automatic tab creation” feature is available is behind a flag in the latest Chrome Canary 87.0.4266.0 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS and can be enabled.
Enable automatic tab grouping feature in Chrome
- Launch Chrome browser
- Visit chrome://flags page
- Search for “Tab Groups Auto Create”
Tab Groups Auto Create flag - Click on the dropdown arrow and select “Enabled”
- Restart the browser
If you open links from the same domain in different tabs, Chrome will group them automatically, check the feature in action in the video below.
Chromium team for the feature bug made two commits [1] and [2] to add an entry into chrome://flags and “automatically create a new group when opening a tab with the same domain as its parenting tab.”
In case, if you’re using Chrome stable, you can make tab groups collapsible and expandable by enabling the “Tab Groups collapse” flag in chrome://flags page.
Google is also testing freezing collapsed tab groups feature to save more resources.
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Unfortunate typo in chrome:/flags at the end of the article.
Corrected. Thanks.