{"id":8377,"date":"2021-03-09T10:19:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-09T16:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/?p=8377"},"modified":"2025-07-08T15:50:58","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:50:58","slug":"lets-right-click-with-tab-groups-for-chrome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/online.suny.edu\/onlineteaching\/2021\/03\/09\/lets-right-click-with-tab-groups-for-chrome\/","title":{"rendered":"Tab Groups for Chrome"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you have multiple windows open on your screen? Maybe with multiple tabs on each window? Do you ever have so many tabs open that you can’t even decipher the names of the tabs or what they are? Is it just me? Whether I am describing you or not, I have to share a new feature in Chrome that groups your tabs. All you need to do is right click on a tab to begin!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jennifer Shloming<\/a>, Guest Author, Fashion Institute of Technology<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Grouping tabs immediately sounded perfect and exciting for someone like me (who loves to declutter and organize, not to mention color-code too) but honestly it can be useful to so many people – especially for anyone teaching or running a meeting! You can organize your tabs however you want. As an online instructor there are many benefits to tab groups including checking and working on multiple course sites throughout the day does not have to take up an entire window and grading dozens of submissions at once becomes less daunting!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There are a variety of ways to name and use tab groups so let us discuss a couple that may be of interest to you. The night before a <\/span>meeting<\/b> I finalize whatever I will need and use the next day. This usually includes opening up a few sites on my browser window (and emailing them to myself as backup). I leave those tabs up taking up space while doing other activities on the computer. With these tab groups, I can now create the group and collapse all the tabs until the meeting.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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In the screenshot above you will notice that I have a tab group called \u201cmtg\u201d in purple that is collapsed. All the tabs are currently hidden so I have more space, which means less clutter (and stress). I also have a tab group called \u201cWorkshops\u201d in red that I don\u2019t need to see right now and therefore have collapsed those tabs. Even if these tab groups only included three tabs each, it still would then save me six tabs showing up in my browser and taking up space. The less tabs you have open the more clear it is to see which tabs you are currently working on. Literally you cannot even read what all the tabs say if there are many open, as shown in the screenshot above. Do you encounter this issue when you are grading a set of assignments?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since I just graded a lot of spreadsheet assignments, I made a quick video to just show how it helps reduce stress and keep things as minimal as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n