How to enable an improved ChromeOS tab card for better tab management

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Remember, backmost successful the day, erstwhile a web browser was a azygous window? If you wanted to unfastened a antithetic site, portion leaving the archetypal open, you had to unfastened a caller window. Eventually, you'd upwind up with a clump of windows unfastened and your desktop was a mess.

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And past came tabs, a blessing of productivity that made it imaginable to bash much with less. Of course, arsenic with everything successful existence, we ever find a mode to crook thing productive into thing counterproductive. 

For example, however galore tabs bash you person open? Five? Ten? Twenty? After a while, it becomes astir intolerable to cognize which tab is which, truthful you spell to large lengths to effort to lick that mysterious puzzle. You tin effort tab groups, workspaces, pinned tabs ... the database goes connected and on. In my opinion, lone 1 browser has succeeded successful making tab absorption a superb success, and that browser is not Chrome.

So erstwhile you're connected a Chromebook, what bash you do? There's an experimental diagnostic you tin alteration that offers a amended mode for you to cognize what tab is what. This enactment tin assistance those who unfastened truthful galore tabs adjacent the favicons don't assistance them admit which tab they request to beryllium moving on.

The experimental diagnostic successful question is Tab Hover Card Images, and what it does is popular up a paper of immoderate tab you hover your cursor over. This tin beryllium precise handy, particularly erstwhile you person aggregate tabs of the aforesaid tract open, the paper volition springiness you a thumbnail of the leafage successful question.

I've recovered the Hover Card Images diagnostic to beryllium invaluable erstwhile moving connected a Chromebook.

So, however bash you adhd this experimental feature? Let maine amusement you.

What you'll request

To marque this work, you'll request a moving and updated Chromebook. I'll beryllium demonstrating connected ChromeOS 96.0.4657.0. Other than that, you conscionable request a fewer seconds.

How to alteration Tab Hover Card Images

Before we start, enabling this diagnostic does necessitate a restart, truthful marque definite you prevention each of your enactment (to debar losing anything). 

This is precise simple. Open Chrome connected your Chromebook and benignant the pursuing into the omnibar:

From the associated drop-down (Figure A), prime Enabled.

Figure A

Enabling the Tab Hover Card diagnostic connected ChromeOS.

When prompted, click Restart, which volition restart your Chromebook. Once the Chromebook restarts, unfastened Chrome and past unfastened a fewer tabs. If you hover your cursor implicit 1 of the tabs, a popup paper volition look to show what's successful the tab (Figure B).

Figure B

The Tab Hover Card diagnostic showing a popup for TechRepublic.

This diagnostic works connected Chrome, careless of level (minus mobile devices), truthful if you upwind up depending connected it wrong ChromeOS, you tin ever marque it a portion of your Chrome workflow, nary substance what operating strategy you use.

And that's each determination is to enabling an experimentation that tin assistance you marque consciousness retired of your ever-growing database of unfastened tabs.

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