You Can Now Use AI to Organize Your Tabs in Chrome
Artificial intelligence is now being integrated and deployed everywhere you look in technology, and Google is leading the way. The company adds its Gemini artificial intelligence model to almost everything it offers, including Google Chrome. Just this week , the company announced three new AI features coming to its web browser , including Google Lens, tabbed product comparison, and AI-powered history search.
But that’s not all of Chrome’s AI features in development: As Android Police reports , Google is currently testing a feature that will help you organize multiple tabs. The feature has been in development since at least November, although Google first announced it in January of this year with the release of Chrome 121 .
How to Try AI Tab Organizer in Chrome
To try out this feature for yourself, you’ll need to download Chrome Canary , a version of the web browser in which Google tests new features. You can use Chrome Canary just like Chrome, but remember that the browser may be unstable, like any software in beta.
Once Chrome Canary is running on your computer, sign in to your Google account and turn on syncing. This is required for this feature to work. From here, you’ll need to enable some feature flags, which are settings that enable experimental features in the browser. Type chrome://flags into the address bar, press Enter, then look for the following three flags:
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#tab-organization
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#tab-organization-settings-visibility
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#multi-tab-organization
Click the drop-down menu next to each one and select Enabled .
Once complete, go to Chrome Canary’s settings, click Experimental AI, and turn on Try experimental features . Here you’ll see a new toggle for Tab Organizer . Make sure this switch is also turned on.
After all of the above, click the arrow in the corner of your browser window (depending on your platform, it may be in the top left or top right), then select Organize Tabs . Chrome Canary will give you a few hints about this feature, including that it uses artificial intelligence and won’t always be correct. More importantly, this feature needs access to your tabs, page titles, and URLs , which will be sent to Google. Data obtained from this experience will also be sent to reviewers to improve this feature. (No one said this feature would be particularly private.) However, if you’re happy with these terms, click Let’s Go .
Chrome Canary then analyzes your open tabs and starts suggesting groups of tabs that you can create. For example, I was asked to combine The New York Times, Reuters and The Wall Street Journal into a “News” group, complete with newspaper emoticons. I could change the name if I wanted, but “News” seems quite appropriate to me. To continue, click Create Group and Chrome Canary will move these tabs into a separate group on the left side of the tab row.
You can repeat this process to group open tabs as many times as you like. It seemed to work quite well in my initial testing (the feature wants to group any Google pages into a “Google Suite” group), but one change I’d like to see is the ability to run multiple tab group options at once. Repeating the process is fine, but if I could see multiple potential groups of tabs at a time, I could quickly approve or clear all the options instead of having to keep clicking on the Tab Organizer option first.