Chrome will soon group tabs together to save pack rats from themselves

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The browser will allow you to customize groups using names and colors.

Igor Bonifacic
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Google is introducing a new feature to Chrome that will have you asking how you lived without it before. Starting with the next version of the company's browser, which the search giant will begin rolling out next week, you'll be able to organize tabs together into customizable groups.

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The feature works almost exactly as you might imagine. To start sorting your tabs, right-click on a single one and press the "Add Tab to Group" option. When you create a new group, you can assign it a name and color to make it easily identifiable. If you feel like moving a tab to a different group afterward, you can do so by dragging and dropping it. Better yet, anytime you close and reopen Chrome, your groupings will load up automatically.

As the company points out, both tab minimalists and hoarders (you know who you are) should appreciate the ability to bring order to their browser’s top bar.

Google plans to release tab groups to Chrome OS, Windows, Mac and Linux users "slowly" to ensure Chrome's stability and performance don't take a hit. In the meantime, you can pin tabs to save space and create at least some semblance of tidiness. If you're the impatient type, you can start using the feature right now by updating to the latest beta version. If the functionality isn't available immediately, you may need to restart your browser.
 

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They need to disable anything past 20 tabs instead. My parents always got like 200 tabs open then asking why they shyt running slow. :shaq2:

install this for them.

Auto Tab Discard

"Auto Tab Discard" automatically discards inactive tabs after a defined time period to free up memory usage of the tab and to prevent background scripts from using the computational power of your browser when the tab is not being used by the user. This extension uses the native method to discard tabs and hence does not have issues the other similar extensions might suffer from. Also in this method, the discarded tabs will not use any memory at all and will restore to the previous state while preserving page state (like scroll position for instance).
Features
  • Discards inactive tabs after a specified time period
  • Discards all tabs or tabs in the current window per user action
  • Supports white-listing for hostnames that should not go to the discarded state
  • Supports conditional options to prevent tab discarding (pinned tab, media playing, and power connection)

Auto Tab Discard

Auto Tab Discard – Get this Extension for Firefox (en-US)

Auto Tab Discard

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i'm regularly have 300+ tabs open and that consumes a lot of memory so auto tab discard suspends the tab whenever it hasn't been active after a while. you can also keep sites/tabs from being discarded too. by discarded i don't mean the tabs are closed, they'll reload the page once you click on the tab again.
 
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