How to Organize Browser Tabs Into Groups in Chrome

If you ever open many browser tabs at once — recipes, shopping, news, email — things can get overwhelming quickly. Chrome's Tab Groups feature lets you bundle related tabs together under a single label with a color code, so your browser bar stays organized and you can find what you need without hunting through dozens of tabs.

For example, you might create a group called "Recipes" for all the cooking pages you have open, a group called "Shopping" for the products you're comparing, and a group called "Travel" for trip-planning pages. Each group gets its own color — one might be blue, another red — so you can identify them at a glance.

Tab groups are collapsible, which means you can click on the group label to fold all those tabs out of sight when you're not using them, and click again to expand them. This keeps your tab bar from becoming a cluttered row of tiny icons.

Tab groups are saved as long as your browser window stays open. If you close Chrome, the groups will reappear the next time you open Chrome (in newer versions), though this depends on whether Chrome is set to reopen your previous tabs.

This feature works on both Windows and Mac computers. It's not available in Chrome on a phone (where tab groups work differently), but on a computer it's a real productivity improvement once you build the habit.