One of Chrome’s best features for staying organized is coming to Android: the powerful “guide groups,” which allow you to group your tabs into more useful parts, rather than randomly spreading them your browser – or, on your phone, separate pages. However, you may need to enable a semi-hidden flag in your browser to access this useful feature today.
To begin, make sure you are running the latest version of chrome on your Android device, upgradeable through the Google Play Store. Then IOpen your browser and type the following in the address bar: chrome://flags
You will be taken to a screen that looks like this:
Do a quick search for “Tab Grid,” tap the drop-down menu for the Tab grid layout flag and select the regular option “Enabled”. Restart Chrome and touch the box to the right of the address bar to open some new tabs. You will immediately see that they are now organized into an grid layout, instead of displaying pages placed on top of each other.
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How do you group these tabs? Is easy. Simply hold down one and drag it over the other. Rrepeat the process to add more guides to your guide group:
You can also tap on the group itself and use the “+” icon to add new tabs within it as you see fit. To group multiple tabs at once without having to hold down each tab individually, tap the three dot icon in the upper right corner of the screen and select the new one Group tabs option. You can then just tap on all the free tabs you want to organize into a group and then tap on Group button to make them new friends.
Finally, if you press and hold any hyperlink in a normal Chrome window, you’ll see the option to open the new tab in a group:
Touch it and the original page you were viewing now will be grouped with the new link pressed for a long time, and you will see both icons at the bottom of the Chrome browser. This is the easy method to navigate between the tabs in your group, and you can also use the “+” icon on the right to add more tabs quickly.
Of course, if you don’t like the layout of the grid or groups of tabs, you can disable the feature again using the same Tab grid layout signal as before. Just set it to “disabled” and your browser will revert to its previous state – for now.