Google’s Chrome is experimenting a feature, select different tab width

Google Chrome browser is making it easier to manage when opening dozens or dozens of tabs. Allegedly, Chromium developers are testing with tabs with different widths when turning on tab scrolling.

Google’s test has two parts, in Chrome 88, users can enable tab scrolling with a flag. This feature makes the tab bar look less crowded when the user opens multiple tabs at the same time, firefox and Safari also have similar functions.

You can turn on the tab scrolling function through chrome://flags. It comes with sliding the tab bar with the scroll wheel or trackpad, users can also open the left and right buttons to scroll open tabs.

Additionally, to scrollable tabs, Google is also testing different widths in Chrome Canary 90. When tab scrolling is enabled, you can choose to shrink the tabs to the pinned tab width, medium width, large width, or no shrinkage at all. When tabs are shrunk, it is almost impossible to distinguish them except for small website icons, so it is very useful to have different width options.

Currently, it is not clear that scheme Google will choose, but it is great to see the new features being tested, and the wide width has achieved the best balance between information density and readability.

Google has previously released tag groups and tag search. These new tag functions are currently in testing. I don’t know when they will be available, but I hope they can be released as soon as possible because they can give great productivity.

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