How to Enable Group Tabs in Chrome Right Now
I’ve seen a number of reports lately that Google is rolling out a new “group tabs” feature in Chrome designed to help you organize an unruly number of open tabs into more manageable, color-consistent blocks. Well, yes. You could do it for months ; you just didn’t know it.
If you don’t want to wait for Google to release, make sure you are using the latest version of Chrome first. You don’t have to be in beta or anything like that; just update your browser to whatever you can get right now from the stable channel (81.0.4044.138, at the time of this writing).
After that, type this into the address bar of your browser and hit Enter:
chrome://flags/#tab-groups
Set Tab Groups to Enabled. Restart your browser and you should be able to right-click any browser tab and add it to a new group. When you do this, you will see a small colored dot to the left of it. This is what you will use to organize your groups, which you can customize with the right mouse button:
I recommend giving a name to your tab group if you are not very good at matching colors to tab types. Yes, you can even use emoji for the tab group names if you really want to.
Otherwise, managing tabs in a group is fairly straightforward. You can right-click any ungrouped tab in your browser to assign it to a new or existing group; it’s your choice. Close all tabs in the group and it will disappear. You will have to redo it again if you want to reset more tabs to this category, as Chrome will not remember the old groups that you used before.