Tab management is a very active area of extension / plug-in development and while there are certainly compromises, there’s no silver bullet for making 20, 30 or 100 tabs look anything other than chaotic. That said, if you’re a Chrome user addicted to tabs, but not that keen on any of the available extensions, you can give the browser’s experimental “Stacked tabs” feature a go.
As Additive Tip’s Waqas Ahmed explains, activating stacked tabs is easy: just hit up chrome://flags by typing it into the address bar, scroll down until you find the greyed-out “Stacked tabs” option and click “Enable”. You’ll then need to restart your browser.
Once you hit about 13-14 open tabs, they’ll start stacking to the right and once you hit around 24, you’ll have them piling up on the left as well. It’s definitely nicer than having a bunch of extremely tiny, unidentifiable tabs, but it’s still no substitute for something like Tab Outliner.
It’s one of those settings you’ll have to use for 15-30 minutes before you can make a clear decision on if it’s for you, but you don’t have much to lose by giving it a try.
How To Enable Stacked Tab Feature In Chrome For Better Tab Management [Addictive Tips]
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8 responses to “Love Having 100 Tabs Open In Chrome? Give Stacking A Go”
I hope someone can help me here. in chrome I have it set so when I open it, it opens my favorite websites. so I have 15 websites open.
Is there a way to create a new shortcut on my desktop for chrome that just opens 1 empty window? instead of the 15?? cause sometimes ill just need 1 window to search something, but if I open chrome I have to stop all the tabs, or let them all load ect
chrome.exe -new-window -homepage “about:blank”
it doesnt work, when I create the shortcut says it doesnt exist!
It does run from the run bar fine. how would I create a shortcut on the desktop?
Shortcuts are the same whether they’re on your taskbar or desktop. You may need to make sure the working directory points to your Chrome folder first. Try just dragging a shortcut from chrome.exe to your desktop first, then edit the shortcut and add the parameters to the end of the target field.
I’m a mac user, so Chrome is normally open. Yes it is always chock full of tabs.
When I want to open a single window I right mouse click on the app in the dock and choose “New incognito window”. Google is set as my home page so I can go straight to search.
This suits me as I often prefer to search in incognito mode anyway…. so that I get unskewed results, of course! ;-D
WOO hoo figured it out. Thanks Zombie!!
Ah, I only saw this after your reply above, disregard my reply above then =)
Hell yeah. This is great. I’m constantly having a bunch of tabs open in multiple windows. I can keep track of it in my head, but this helps a little.