We’ve reported Chrome will get scrollable tab bar, sorry! we’ve no update on that, but there is another news for you: Google has added Tab groups flag to Chrome 73, which is now available in the latest Chrome Canary for testing.
Tab groups flag landed in Chrome Canary
If you visit chrome://flags in Canary, you’ll notice Tab groups flag at the top with the description “Users can organize tabs into visually distinct groups e.g separate tabs associated with different tasks”.
The experimental feature available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome OS hasn’t worked for us after enabling.
As there is no description in the issue or flag, how tabs can be grouped and the design document link heading to wrong page, but the tab groups feature discontinued by Mozilla from Firefox used to offer an icon at end of tab strip, which when clicked Activates feature and offer a seperate page to view open tabs and organize them into groups. Activated flag isn’t giving any UI options in Chrome toolbar or tab context menu at the moment, expect it to work in the coming days as Chromium development progresses.
This is how things happened so far:
Google employee created issue for Tab Groups feature on November 14, 2018, without much information.
Tab groups entry added to about://flags page on December 5. 2018.
The Priority for Tab Groups has been set to 1 and Target assigned as Chrome 73 and the experimental feature is now available in Chrome Canary 73.
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