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You know how when you get to 10+ tabs open in your browser (in this case Chrome) and you can't tell which tab is which anymore? I'm sure there are some good extension or something - what's the best solution to this problem?
kenwarner
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 1 987
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I've been using the Quick Tabs extension for a while, does a good job.
kenwarner
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 1 987
1Nice, I added ctrl+q as the shortcut for this in chrome://extensions/ – KCD – 2016-06-30T00:15:58.247
Quick Tabs is fantastic. Using this with Ctrl-Space will drastically improve my productivity in the browser. – treehead – 2016-08-05T18:34:06.680
Take a look at Taptab. It's the simplest solution for the problem. Just a button that drops down the list of tabs for the window. Now it's archived so, it's a bit more difficult to install, but worth it.
– user77376 – 2016-11-09T09:56:46.323I had to wait for about 40 secs for this to bring up the list of tabs 63 tabs. Needless to say it's unusable like this. – Okneloper – 2017-01-09T11:54:40.867
It allows to assign hotkeys for tabs popup and prev/next tab switch in LRU order.
– Vadzim – 2017-04-07T16:29:15.167This one would have been perfect if it weren't so slow :( – andrecarlucci – 2014-03-31T14:36:40.737
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i've been using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabman-tabs-manager/hgmnkflcjcohihpdcniifjbafcdelhlm which is a pretty similar solution. maybe won't be as slow for you?
– kenwarner – 2014-03-31T14:38:15.59071
Start Chrome's task manager, and then you can double click on the title of whatever tab you need.
Hit Shift+Esc to bring up the Chrome task manager.
Alternatively, on Chrome's More tools menu, select Task manager (source)
On the Chrome Window menu, select Task Manager.
Hit Search+Esc to bring up the Chrome task manager.
Alternatively, on Chrome's More tools menu, select Task manager (source)
jonsca
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 3 889
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Thanks! I'm in a VDI environment, and all my extensions are unavailable due to a synchronization problem. It's good to see a built-in solution. Normally, I would be using Session Buddy to manage this.
– GuitarPicker – 2016-06-08T15:52:07.0032It should be pointed out that this solution does show you all tabs across all instances of Chrome, different profiles or otherwise. I have three profiles running at work, and that makes the task manager a bit overloaded with unrelated tab groups. Could be very useful for those that do want this behavior, of course. – shmup – 2016-07-20T15:01:04.303
3This does not work in Chrome on Mac OSX (Yosemite). – aqn – 2016-07-25T15:14:12.633
1Though Chrome's Task Manager still exists on OSX and presumably all we would need to do is add a key binding for it. – Joe Atzberger – 2016-07-28T20:18:02.447
VERY helpful: double-click on the tab title – Bob Stein – 2016-08-17T15:03:51.727
On Mac OS X, to add shortcut, check this: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#%21topic/chrome/xz-9TlEwwCc
– wesamly – 2017-08-17T07:52:58.653Chrome is a bit more careful about wasting system resources these days. The list is no longer complete. Unused tabs disappear from the it after a while. – hashchange – 2018-02-12T16:23:34.177
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This works in all versions of Chrome, on Mac, Linux and Windows:
chrome://inspect/#pages
Unfortunately, this won't show tabs that haven't been used in a while. But for recent tabs, no need to install any extension, and you can also search in the tab names - great when you have many tabs. To open a tab, just click Inspect.
Dan Dascalescu
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 3 406
I know this wasn't in the original question, but is there a way to open the tab from the Inspect Pages page? – wisbucky – 2015-05-01T11:16:24.733
1@wisbucky: of course, you click Inspect. (You can close the Inspect side bar by pressing F12 on Windows or Cmd + Opt + I on Mac). – Dan Dascalescu – 2015-05-01T20:53:09.293
1Ah, I found the issue. It doesn't switch tabs if Chrome Developer Tools is undocked. After I redocked CDT, then this method worked. – wisbucky – 2015-05-02T00:49:29.947
"Yuck", unfortunately it opens the entire inspect element screen over my screen and many more keystrokes required, but OK for extensionless. – David d C e Freitas – 2015-05-07T19:49:28.843
3This was very useful to me for getting a text list of all of the tabs open in Chrome. Use it after teaching a class and opening a bunch of tabs to collect that list for easily sharing. Thanks – justinxreese – 2015-09-01T21:26:40.177
Does not work for Chrome on iPad. It's the latest build at this time of writing. chrome://inspect gives... "This site can't be reached The webpage at chrome://inspect/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address." – Glenn Slayden – 2017-01-30T21:14:59.243
1Just like the task manager, this does not list tabs which haven't been used for a while (as of 2018). – hashchange – 2018-02-12T16:26:23.973
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Install TabsOutliner extension -
The ultimate windows & tabs manager for Chrome:
Not only it is show all the tabs and windows, it allow to add notes to them, freely reorganize everything, rescue all of this on Chrome crashes and give possibility to unload tabs without deleting them from tree - "in place" - very cool and handy, a lifesaver for me, and for any other tab addict.
omnray
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 589
What's cool: it supports splitting and merging groups of tabs into windows. – Vadzim – 2017-04-07T16:15:21.160
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The Chrome extension called Vimium will let you search and go to any of your open tabs if you press T, amongst many other things that it can do.
David d C e Freitas
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 3 498
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Mac OS X (with trackpad)
In the search bar write:
about:flags
and click enter. Now enable Tab Overview.
A three-finger swipe will now reveal something like this:
Here's 20 tabs for good measure:
It works really well. I can't browse without it these days.
boehj
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 1 042
1I cant find this option in yosemite – Matt – 2015-06-10T18:56:34.057
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This is gone now. Removed per chrome devs. https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?revision=251439&view=revision
– gooddadmike – 2016-08-10T17:52:12.5401Do you know if there's any way to use this in Windows? – nhinkle – 2011-05-31T07:44:59.480
@nhinkle: Not sure sorry. It'd be a shame if it didn't work in Windows. I've only tried in OS X. – boehj – 2011-05-31T09:01:29.003
@nhinkle There doesn't seem to be AFAIK – Ivo Flipse – 2011-05-31T09:51:48.737
Looks useful, but sadly this doesn't work on Mountain Lion. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/chromium-discuss/TVhiIaeQhIg
– aimango – 2012-12-23T04:21:15.3633
Type about:flags into the address bar, and then enable Side Tabs:
Adds a "Use Side Tabs" entry to the tab strip's context menu. Use this to toggle between tabs on top (default) and tabs on the side. Useful on widescreen monitors.
sblair
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 12 231
I can't find this option – Matt – 2015-06-10T18:59:58.617
I was not able to find any "Side Tabs" menu in the latest chrome versions. Can you elaborate your method a little more. Thanks! – manav m-n – 2013-10-07T06:44:46.703
9It looks like this experimental feature was dropped at some point. – James B – 2013-11-10T11:19:37.550
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Another altenative with expose-like functionality:
Features include:
Bonus
How to Create Custom Keyboard Shortcuts For Any Extension in Google Chrome
Vadzim
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 974
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Go to History. There you'll see the list of opened tabs if you have synced chrome with google account on both the computers.
Firoz
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
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my favourite chrome app for listing all tabs: fast tab switcher.
象嘉道
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 101
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The OneTab extension is pretty great. It consolidates all tabs into a single tab that then acts as a dynamic tab manager page so you can reorder, reopen, close, save, etc.
thkemp
Posted 2011-05-30T23:44:28.873
Reputation: 173
1you can identify some of them, obviously, via the favicons. – studiohack – 2011-05-30T23:46:51.767
10yeah but if i have 20 links on the site open, that's not much help – kenwarner – 2011-05-30T23:47:56.047
This topic explains how to find the list of tabs using Javascript: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11915370/retrieving-which-tabs-are-open-in-chrome
– Anderson Green – 2012-08-23T21:26:30.400