Chrome’s two popular Tab Group features –Tab Groups Collapse and Tab Groups Auto-create- made their way to Microsoft Edge browser and now available in the Canary version.
New Microsoft Edge Chromium supports Chrome’s Tab Groups. The feature isn’t available by default. You need to turn on a flag to group tabs.
Tab Groups helps in organizing tabs into different subjects.
Google made Tab groups in Chrome expandable and collapsible. With the latter, your tab bar will occupy less space and gives room to fit more tabs.
That’s the reason why collapsible tab groups are so much popular and liked by users. Edge users want that too.
The feature is now available in Edge Canary 89.0.722.0 along with another addition where Edge creates tab groups automatically like Chrome.
Enable Collapsible tab groups option in Microsoft Edge
- Launch Edge browser
- Visit edge://flags
- Enable the following flags and restart the browser
- Tab Groups
- Tab Groups Collapse
Now to the most important part,
To collapse a Tab Group in Microsoft Edge
- If you’ve not created your first Tab Group in Edge yet, right-click on a tab and select “Add this tab to new group”. Again right-click on the second tab and select “Add a tab to group”.
- Right-click on the header icon, give a name, and select a specific color from Grey, Blue, Red, Yellow, Green, Pink, Purple, and Cyan. Giving distinct names and colors makes it easier for you to identify the groups later. This way, you can create multiple groups.
- Now when you click on the Tab group label or icon, they’ll collapse, when you click on the icon again, they’ll expand to show tabs in the group.
For Edge to automatically create tab groups
- visit edge://flags page
- Enable “Tab Groups” and “Tab Groups Auto-Create” flags
- Restart the browser
Here, you don’t need to group tabs as Edge will take care of that with the Auto-create Tab Groups flag enabled.
To see Automatic creation of Tab Groups in Edge
- Open a website
- Right-click on a link and select “open it (link) in new tab” to notice, Edge grouping the tabs instantly. This is how the feature works in Edge as well as Chrome.
What’s your take on Edge’s new Tab Group features? Do you like them? Let us know in the comments below.
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