If you have multiple windows running, rather than using X to close out of Chrome, use 3 dot menu > Exit. This will close all windows, and when you re-open, ALL windows including their respective tabs and tab groups will be restored.
I also recommend an extension called Session Buddy which saves all your sessions (sets of windows and tabs) automatically, handy when Chrome fails to restore them occasionally.
This would be such a useful feature if it actually worked... Randomly un-groups tabs and all the time spent organizing is a waste... Thank you Google chrome for another completely broken tool...😢
Those group tabs are also being forced in chrome for android. With every update i'm Disabling everything that has "tab" in it and it's still comming back those group tabs. With latest update, you can't even disable them anymore... Everything is disabled and they are still present. Group tabs for Chrome Android SHOULD BE AN OPTION!! NOT PERMANENT FEATURE!!
I absolutely agree and I HATE tab groups in Android Chrome. It is inevitable that they will become a permanent feature and ruin it for good- but for now you can still fix it Go to chrome://flags/ "Temporarily unexpire m89/90" This will bring back all of the tab group flags for disabling Disable everything relating to tab groups Relaunch Force stop app Relaunch again Force stop again Relaunch again (I dont know why the multiple relaunches and force stops are needed but they were necessary for me) The groups will be gone If youre reading this in the future and you cant do this or the unexpire m89/m90 dont exist anymore. Its already too late. Google has made groups truly permanent
The developer said, "Unfortunately no, tab grouping cannot be disabled anymore. As you said, flags were the intermediate solution. But, the flags to disable tab grouping will no longer be in new releases." So thoughtful. Nobody qsked for it and nobody likes it, but let's force it on every user because we know better what they want.
I was looking for a way to save groups and on top of finding a great walkthrough I found someone who also loves Resident Evil! Lol I was so happy seeing that shirt 😄😊!.
Thanks for this. After Apple's announcement yesterday of their version of tab groups on Safari, I just had to have a look for it on Chrome. Just hoping Chrome gives us the option soon for saving the group tabs like in Safari's future roll out
Thanks for the video! Just put all your links in a folder, right-click the folder, and "open all in new tab group." That's the workaround I use to save my tab groups.
Thank you! It is crazy that you can't save tab groups. That (to me) would seem to be the entire point of them and therefore where the value is. (I suppose you could argue that bookmarks would accomplish the same thing, but the difference to me feels like tab groups are more regularly used sites while bookmarks would be things you want to find at some point later.)
Agreed! I'm so annoyed. I saved a bunch of tabs in a group for my work research, assuming they're now saved somewhere like a bookmark. I could also see them in the restore tab recent history. Fast forward 24 hours, that group is gone - some 4 hours of valuable research wasted.
Very helpful feature to organize multiple tabs. Another workaround to get back the closed group is CTRL + SHIFT + T. Would be better if Chrome comes up with the Pin Group feature. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for the clear explanation of how tab groups work, or should I say, don't work in Chrome. It's now 2023 and they still function like this. What on earth is the point of creating groups if you can't save them? It's pathetic! It's right back to Safari for me!
@@guowty2977 tab grouping on mobile is literally the worst, I'm going to have to uninstall and dowoad an earlier version then turn off updates to avoid this BS.
While somewhat helpful, seems to me that this just adds even more stuff. Sure it's grouped, but doesn't let me expand/shrink groups on the tab bar. Now *that* would be really useful if you have 20-30-or more tabs open. I have a coworker that frequently has hundreds of tabs open.
For anyone ending up here, know that you can know save and hide your tab groups. This video is no longer needed. But making Chrome start where you left off by default is still a nice tip for other reasons.
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The other thing is that you have to click on the Group name (e.g. Airline in this video) and then all the tabs in that group will disappear. Click to open all again.
They need to save the groups in a dropdown option somewhere on the bookmarks bar. So that we can close the group but still have other groups open in other chrome windows and/or so that we can quickly select a group and it pops up on the screen in front of the others. It's still so cumbersome but a start to a great feature to have.
@@ChrisMenardTraining Just realized I'm running that version of chrome. I tried it. It seems to be working now. Thanx again for the video. Still interested in seeing the new video. Just subscribed to your channel. Hope that helps you out.
Help. I enabled tab groups save in flags, now I cannot get rid of a tab group. Even if I ungroup, the label inside the bookmarks space persists. How to remove it from there?
@@ChrisMenardTraining thanks but i do not want to rename the group's name but each of the tabs in this group. There is no Rename or Modify in the right click like we see in tabs that are not part of a group
What's the point in having tab groups if they all need to be open in the same browser? I can just have open tabs. I want to have tab groups for different topics in different browser windows.
Fantastic video, Chris. Like you and many others, as my workday progresses I'm opening more and more tabs. Within a few hours - or at the end of the day - I discover a cluttered mess of open tabs. This instruction video you've made has saved me so much time and frustration locating where I was at after each of the umpteen times I am interrupted during the day. Thank you so much!!
Great workaround to save tab groups! Unfortunately, my organization has locked that setting. However, I will take advantage of this on my home devices.
But what happens when you close the entire window after? This feature is helpful but I hope there can be a shortcut to those groups where you can go after closing the window.
Thanks for the workaround... I wish it wasn't necessary... how hard is it just to have a "save groups" option for Chrome? Unfortunately, most of the time when Chrome closes, it's due to an error, and I don't necessarily have the option of being on the proper page, the one with my "Manuscripts" tabs. But, your workaround is better than the nothing that Chrome is offering right now. Creating tab groups is *half* of a good idea...
@@ChrisMenardTraining , still "save groups" looks obvious for me but I doubt will be added. Currently I have like 5-6 Chromes and each of it has like 5-15 groups. These all are very different **contexts** of my work. I would like to have only one Chrome for current context and switch easily to other one. What Google provides? If you close single group - you can Ctrl+Shift+T. If you **bookmark** all groups you are **almost** there - all groups become folders in bookmark manager. But you can restore .... only ONE!!! what a shame. Maybe Google scale for a usual web surfer for fun, not for someone who need to switch back and forth...
It saves having loads of tabs showing on top of the Google screen. Instead you just have a few groups - for instance one containing all your TV and Radio stations. When you click the group it flip-flops between displaying all the tabs or showing just the one "master" tab. Basically it stops tabs cluttering your top row of Google.
@@PeteJosephs I'm confused why people have so many tabs open that it becomes unmanageable. Do people just never close tabs for some reason? I open maybe 30 in a couple of hours and eventually decide to close most of them because I don't actually have a logical reason for having that many tabs opened anyway. Also, the "feature" should be an option, not a forced rule. I'm not dealing with this BS anymore, I'm downloading an older version before the whole tab/grid nonsense was shoved on us.
Hi Chris! Great tips... and it drives me crazy too... ;-) Also I would like to have a function in Chrome (or GMail) to be able to have an auto correction feature, like in Word... like when typing "RGD" > it becomes automatically "best Regards"... would be great, right?
Thanks! Nice workaround. I'm going to give it a try. How strange that we can't save them, though. I mean, we can save bookmarks to pages, why not tab groups? Oh, Google! You work in mysterious ways.
Loved every new tab management thing on chrome. But saved with tab group disappointed me after finding way online 1hour. Expecting a new update with this one from google.
Great Video, one issue is that the save tabs doesn't seem to work well when your work mandates that you go through a VPN. In that, I just start in the morning and at the end of the day, I just all out and start over the following day. However it is very useful during my work to have Tab Groups. I hope Google Changes this soon, very handy though. Thank you for the training!
Thank you your majesty... you have saved my kingdom! I am forever in your debt. Hail to king MENARD! This morning for the second time this year, I foolishly let all my 17 tabs and groups vanish into the far reaches of our solar system. ( I was ticked off big time...you wouldn't believe all the good stuff I had saved up !) I'll never get that info back again, so I'm going into a very deep meditation today and try to visualize how my screen looked a day ago then try and re-create everything again. You're a nice guy, thanks again... and expect a miracle to happen in your life this coming Friday as a result of GOOD KARMA ! Good day.
Thx Chris but sadly due to product, it appears you cannot retrieve more than one tab group unless you have instances of Chrome on different screen, nightmare
If you have multiple windows running, rather than using X to close out of Chrome, use 3 dot menu > Exit. This will close all windows, and when you re-open, ALL windows including their respective tabs and tab groups will be restored.
I also recommend an extension called Session Buddy which saves all your sessions (sets of windows and tabs) automatically, handy when Chrome fails to restore them occasionally.
Awesome, just took note and will try out tomorrow
You're a genius, I searched and searched and only you gave a solution .. By the way you turned to Google support, maybe they will give a solution?
Thank you.
This would be such a useful feature if it actually worked... Randomly un-groups tabs and all the time spent organizing is a waste... Thank you Google chrome for another completely broken tool...😢
They can be saved now. th-cam.com/video/Xf94ObywzjU/w-d-xo.html
I despise everything about this feature.
Believe me, you're not the only one.
Those group tabs are also being forced in chrome for android. With every update i'm Disabling everything that has "tab" in it and it's still comming back those group tabs. With latest update, you can't even disable them anymore... Everything is disabled and they are still present. Group tabs for Chrome Android SHOULD BE AN OPTION!! NOT PERMANENT FEATURE!!
I absolutely agree and I HATE tab groups in Android Chrome.
It is inevitable that they will become a permanent feature and ruin it for good- but for now you can still fix it
Go to chrome://flags/
"Temporarily unexpire m89/90"
This will bring back all of the tab group flags for disabling
Disable everything relating to tab groups
Relaunch
Force stop app
Relaunch again
Force stop again
Relaunch again
(I dont know why the multiple relaunches and force stops are needed but they were necessary for me)
The groups will be gone
If youre reading this in the future and you cant do this or the unexpire m89/m90 dont exist anymore. Its already too late. Google has made groups truly permanent
The developer said, "Unfortunately no, tab grouping cannot be disabled anymore. As you said, flags were the intermediate solution. But, the flags to disable tab grouping will no longer be in new releases." So thoughtful. Nobody qsked for it and nobody likes it, but let's force it on every user because we know better what they want.
@@juliedejonge3931 Sounds exactly like apple.
I was looking for a way to save groups and on top of finding a great walkthrough I found someone who also loves Resident Evil! Lol I was so happy seeing that shirt 😄😊!.
Thanks for this. After Apple's announcement yesterday of their version of tab groups on Safari, I just had to have a look for it on Chrome. Just hoping Chrome gives us the option soon for saving the group tabs like in Safari's future roll out
Thanks for the video! Just put all your links in a folder, right-click the folder, and "open all in new tab group." That's the workaround I use to save my tab groups.
What a useless feature. If you can't save the groups and then open them later (without the work around) what is the point of bothering to group stuff?
Thank you! It is crazy that you can't save tab groups. That (to me) would seem to be the entire point of them and therefore where the value is. (I suppose you could argue that bookmarks would accomplish the same thing, but the difference to me feels like tab groups are more regularly used sites while bookmarks would be things you want to find at some point later.)
Agreed! I'm so annoyed. I saved a bunch of tabs in a group for my work research, assuming they're now saved somewhere like a bookmark. I could also see them in the restore tab recent history. Fast forward 24 hours, that group is gone - some 4 hours of valuable research wasted.
Exactly. That is the main point of tab groups in my mind.
Very helpful feature to organize multiple tabs. Another workaround to get back the closed group is CTRL + SHIFT + T. Would be better if Chrome comes up with the Pin Group feature. Thanks for sharing!
thank you. this was great and will definitely save me a lot of time
Glad to help.
you can save all the groups in bookmark and then open them like a group tab later
Thank you Chris, this is groundbreaking, especially now that I know the ctrl+ Shift+ T command.
You're welcome!
@@ChrisMenardTraining chrome canary, send help pls sir & i need helps there in that app "how to open tab in groups" & how to make it appear there
Thank you for the clear explanation of how tab groups work, or should I say, don't work in Chrome. It's now 2023 and they still function like this. What on earth is the point of creating groups if you can't save them? It's pathetic! It's right back to Safari for me!
you can save tab groups now.
I haven't found a way to name groups on the mobile version of Chrome, is it possible?
not in mobile at this time.
@@ChrisMenardTraining It's a shame because without that, I find grouped tabs to be more of a nuisance than a help.
@@guowty2977 tab grouping on mobile is literally the worst, I'm going to have to uninstall and dowoad an earlier version then turn off updates to avoid this BS.
I was looking for a way to save the tab groups. Thank you!
Happy to help! I'm enjoying using tab groups.
@@ChrisMenardTraining me too! thanks Menard!
@@ChrisMenardTraining Me too! Thank you so much!
Me too!!!! Thank you!!!!!
They just appeared after an update, and I didn't know what they were. I started using them and I won't go back.😀
If we could save them. :-)
Very effective walk through. Thank you. Was looking for a way to save the groups. This let me know it's not possible! Are you there, Google?!
Thank you!
How to get back or reopen all groups which i had created but now am unable to see it in history also. can you help in this ?
It is sad we can't save tab groups. * CTRL + SHIFT + b* may bring them back.
Can this sync from PC to Mobile? I wanna organize tabs in my pc then transfer them to mobile
Not possible on mobile. PC only.
Thanks for the instruction. Google made this feature quite un-intuitive. Great presentation style.
While somewhat helpful, seems to me that this just adds even more stuff. Sure it's grouped, but doesn't let me expand/shrink groups on the tab bar. Now *that* would be really useful if you have 20-30-or more tabs open. I have a coworker that frequently has hundreds of tabs open.
I stand corrected. It does do that.
Yes, it can grow or shrink. Thanks, David!
You really helped me out. THANK YOU!
Thank you! Glad to help.
This so amazingly explained. So glad I found you! Keep helping us! I appreciate you!
Thanks Jennifer!
thanks for sharing... great option to organize for work
Thank you. Google should have Save Tab Groups out soon from what I read.
thanks, man, my tabs were getting out of control
Thank you. If Google would come up for a way to SAVE them, we would be all set. Thanks, Disco.
Very helpful! Hare Krishna to you.
For anyone ending up here, know that you can know save and hide your tab groups. This video is no longer needed. But making Chrome start where you left off by default is still a nice tip for other reasons.
great to know about "on start up" thubs up! Thanks
You bet!
Hey! You look like a king with the beard, all you need now is a golden crown and some human subjects to serve you hot BBQ ribs and ice cold beers all day long while naked wenches dance and frolic for you.
LONG LIVE KING MENARD, HIP HIP...HORAY ! HIP HIP HORAY! HIP HIP HORAYYYYYY!
I have NOT used Chrome for 10 Years. THANK GOD. Only what to use for 1 extension. Great real and use Firefox!!!!
thank you. love the shirt! from the UK btw
Thank you! I either get compliments about the shirt or when in public, people ask me who the company is. :-)
Great video, thank you, I didn't know you could do this on PC, I thought it was exclusively on mobile!
The other thing is that you have to click on the Group name (e.g. Airline in this video) and then all the tabs in that group will disappear. Click to open all again.
They need to save the groups in a dropdown option somewhere on the bookmarks bar. So that we can close the group but still have other groups open in other chrome windows and/or so that we can quickly select a group and it pops up on the screen in front of the others. It's still so cumbersome but a start to a great feature to have.
Thank you! I found the answer I was looking for in your video. (3:05 this helped me)
You're welcome! Glad I could help.
I was hoping by now that chrome would have updated this so you wouldn't need a work around to make this work! Thanx for the video.
It is fixed in Chrome version 111! Finally. It took them long enough. I have a video coming out this week.
@@ChrisMenardTraining Cool - send me the link when finished!
@@ChrisMenardTraining Just realized I'm running that version of chrome. I tried it. It seems to be working now. Thanx again for the video. Still interested in seeing the new video. Just subscribed to your channel. Hope that helps you out.
Help. I enabled tab groups save in flags, now I cannot get rid of a tab group. Even if I ungroup, the label inside the bookmarks space persists. How to remove it from there?
🔴🟠🔵What is the benefit of 3 circles on the right side of the Chrome Tabs? And how to enable them on any Chrome Browser?
I know how to rename a regular tab to make the name shorter but I am not able to rename tabs in a Group of tabs. Do you?
Right click the tab group and rename. Screenshot is here drive.google.com/file/d/1o89Q4Vx1aJmP1tvfJh7gKyZX78d9AR-R/view?usp=drivesdk
@@ChrisMenardTraining thanks but i do not want to rename the group's name but each of the tabs in this group. There is no Rename or Modify in the right click like we see in tabs that are not part of a group
What's the point in having tab groups if they all need to be open in the same browser? I can just have open tabs. I want to have tab groups for different topics in different browser windows.
So if you reboot without closing the chrome instances you have running or you lose power and dont manually close chrome it wont save the groups?
If I have 10 opened tabs. Is there a easy way to make all the 10 tabs to groups?
So 10 tabs and each tab in it's own group.
I was very confused about the purpose of group tabs when they don't save so thank you!!! Now I like group tabs 🙂 Thank you so much!!!!
Definitely a good work-around, Chris. Thanks for this idea! Until they add a "save groups for later" feature this is it.
Well done...thank you brother!
Very welcome
wow this helped me allot, thank you
You're welcome!
Sorry, this is useless . . . I want the tab group to be on the "Bookmark Bar" . . .
I just want to save tab groups so they are not eating up memory while I continue browing.Any suggestions?
Fantastic video, Chris. Like you and many others, as my workday progresses I'm opening more and more tabs. Within a few hours - or at the end of the day - I discover a cluttered mess of open tabs. This instruction video you've made has saved me so much time and frustration locating where I was at after each of the umpteen times I am interrupted during the day. Thank you so much!!
By the way DID you turned to Google support, maybe they will give a solution?
Legend. Thank you.
You're welcome!
I wish the only tab I saw was the tab group name. Then when I hovered on it, I was what tabs were in that group.
Brilliant. Thank you!
You're very welcome!
Great workaround to save tab groups! Unfortunately, my organization has locked that setting. However, I will take advantage of this on my home devices.
I believe Google is getting close to making this work correctly.
Lifesaver! Thanks...
You're welcome!
Thanks for this tips
Welcome 😊
But what happens when you close the entire window after? This feature is helpful but I hope there can be a shortcut to those groups where you can go after closing the window.
Google is working on the ability to SAVE your tab groups. It is in their lab to experiment with. Hopefully out in 2023.
Finally someone who knows!!! Thx mate
Thankyou so much 😊
Most welcome 😊
I've tried everything in this doesn't work for me 😭
Thanks for the workaround... I wish it wasn't necessary... how hard is it just to have a "save groups" option for Chrome? Unfortunately, most of the time when Chrome closes, it's due to an error, and I don't necessarily have the option of being on the proper page, the one with my "Manuscripts" tabs. But, your workaround is better than the nothing that Chrome is offering right now. Creating tab groups is *half* of a good idea...
If you close your chrome browser, reopen it and do Ctrl + Shift + T to open the previous session tabs.
@@ChrisMenardTraining , still "save groups" looks obvious for me but I doubt will be added. Currently I have like 5-6 Chromes and each of it has like 5-15 groups. These all are very different **contexts** of my work. I would like to have only one Chrome for current context and switch easily to other one.
What Google provides? If you close single group - you can Ctrl+Shift+T. If you **bookmark** all groups you are **almost** there - all groups become folders in bookmark manager. But you can restore .... only ONE!!! what a shame.
Maybe Google scale for a usual web surfer for fun, not for someone who need to switch back and forth...
There is now a "Save Group" option?
Thank you! I didnt know you could do this in chrome until I watched your video
Glad I could help!
Hi Chris, does this also work on Android tablets? I tried to follow your instructions on my tablet but it did not work.
Christiane, I haven't tested with a tablet yet. It is possible this only works on a computer.
you're a king.
Thanks. Not sure about being a king, but I appreciate the comment.
Can you add multiple tabs to a tab group at once?
Has anyone found a way to add more colors too choose from??
Thanks for the insight
My pleasure!
What is the point though? What do tab groups even do?
It saves having loads of tabs showing on top of the Google screen. Instead you just have a few groups - for instance one containing all your TV and Radio stations. When you click the group it flip-flops between displaying all the tabs or showing just the one "master" tab.
Basically it stops tabs cluttering your top row of Google.
@@PeteJosephs oh right. They are collapsible? Basically every video goes to the how, and never talks about why. Thanks
@@PeteJosephs I'm confused why people have so many tabs open that it becomes unmanageable. Do people just never close tabs for some reason? I open maybe 30 in a couple of hours and eventually decide to close most of them because I don't actually have a logical reason for having that many tabs opened anyway. Also, the "feature" should be an option, not a forced rule. I'm not dealing with this BS anymore, I'm downloading an older version before the whole tab/grid nonsense was shoved on us.
Or, open chrome, Control + Shift, T
Really appreciate this tip to relaunch the tab groups. It was driving me crazy. It helps
Glad to help
How to switch tabs only in groups?
thank you sir........
You are welcome.
Hi Chris! Great tips... and it drives me crazy too... ;-)
Also I would like to have a function in Chrome (or GMail) to be able to have an auto correction feature, like in Word... like when typing "RGD" > it becomes automatically "best Regards"... would be great, right?
really helpful, reopened my chrome and found out all my groups disappeared, thanks for the tip.
You're welcome!
How do I add a group to a group?
Thank you so much for the tips where you left off is great tip.
You are so welcome!
thanks
You're welcome!
great video )
Thank you very much!
THIS IS AWESOME
Thanks, Anthony.
Thanks a.lot man
You're welcome!
thank you!
You're welcome!
Thank you!
You're welcome!
thank you
You're welcome
Brilliant!
Thank you.
Thanks, a very helpful way to organise the million tabs I have open!
Thanks, Brendan.
VERY HELPFUL, CHRIS. THANKS MUCH.
Very welcome!
THANKS MAN
You're welcome!
Really helpful, thanks for the tips sir!
Glad to help.
thanks
You're welcome!
Thanks! Nice workaround. I'm going to give it a try. How strange that we can't save them, though. I mean, we can save bookmarks to pages, why not tab groups? Oh, Google! You work in mysterious ways.
I agree. I was expecting to see a Save Tab Groups near bookmarks.
Loved every new tab management thing on chrome. But saved with tab group disappointed me after finding way online 1hour. Expecting a new update with this one from google.
amazing
Thank you! Cheers!
Great Video, one issue is that the save tabs doesn't seem to work well when your work mandates that you go through a VPN. In that, I just start in the morning and at the end of the day, I just all out and start over the following day. However it is very useful during my work to have Tab Groups. I hope Google Changes this soon, very handy though. Thank you for the training!
Thank you your majesty... you have saved my kingdom! I am forever in your debt. Hail to king MENARD! This morning for the second time this year, I foolishly let all my 17 tabs and groups vanish into the far reaches of our solar system. ( I was ticked off big time...you wouldn't believe all the good stuff I had saved up !)
I'll never get that info back again, so I'm going into a very deep meditation today and try to visualize how my screen looked a day ago then try and re-create everything again.
You're a nice guy, thanks again... and expect a miracle to happen in your life this coming Friday as a result of GOOD KARMA !
Good day.
Thx Chris but sadly due to product, it appears you cannot retrieve more than one tab group unless you have instances of Chrome on different screen, nightmare
Thank you so much. This tutorial was clear, visually understood, great pace, very helpful!
Thanks Chris Really helpful tip
Happy to help!
very helpful. thanks very much.
You're welcome!