Windows 7 Taskbar Thumbnails Added To Google Chrome

Google introduced another feature in the latest Google Chrome developer version next to the new autofill feature that we reviewed earlier today. This new feature is only available if the user runs the Windows 7 operating system as it is the only Microsoft operating system supporting it.

Microsoft has introduced so called taskbar thumbnails in Windows 7 which displays a list of open pages or tabs in supported applications. Many Microsoft applications like Internet Explorer or Windows Explorer support this feature, as do new versions of Mozilla Firefox and several other applications.

The latest to support Windows 7 taskbar thumbnails is Google’s Chrome web browser. Hovering the mouse over Chrome’s icon in the Windows 7 taskbar will display a list of open tabs in the web browser. These tabs can be directly accessed by left-clicking on them in the thumbnail windows which is a very comfortable way of activating the websites quickly in the web browser.

The new feature to display thumbnail previews in the Windows 7 taskbar is automatically active in the latest Google Chrome developer releases.

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Author: Martin Brinkmann, Saturday March 20, 2010 -
Tags:google chrome, taskbar thumbnails, windows 7

Responses so far:

1. Anonymous says:

   March 26, 2010 at 10:55 am

   suxx!!!

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2. Jon says:

   March 28, 2010 at 4:57 pm

   I HATE THIS. it totally takes away from the streamline simplicity of windows 7. i love google chrome but not at this cost. is there any way to go back to the old way?

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3. zz says:

   March 30, 2010 at 9:43 pm

   fck! How to disable it??????? Hellppp!!!

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4. Tom says:

   March 31, 2010 at 3:26 pm

   Awful feature. Makes it much more difficult to use. At least give us an option to turn it off!

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5. hex says:

   April 8, 2010 at 9:42 pm

   Hate it. :( Please, give us an option to turn this off.

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6. Jon says:

   April 9, 2010 at 5:17 am

   HEY GUYS this site helps

   http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Chrome/thread?tid=607ed61598ba1510&hl=en

   Just do what the second post says and then just close chrome and reopen it. IM SO HAPPY its back to normal.

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7. Sidath Liyanage says:

   September 9, 2010 at 4:56 am

   I temporally moved from firefox4 to chrome because of this particular thing, If chrome does it too, I’ll have nowhere to go :(

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