How to move multiple tabs in your web browser of choice
You can move tabs around in your web browser of choice easily. Just use drag and drop to move it to another location on the tab bar, or outside of the current browser window to create a new instance of the browser.
But once you want to move more than one tab, things get a bit blurry. Why? Because there is no visual aid that helps you do so.
While you can move each tab individually to another location or browser window, it is not the best of options if you ask me.
This guide looks at how you can move multiple tabs in Firefox and Google Chrome. Why only those two browsers and not Internet Explorer or Opera? Because there does not seem to be a way to move more than one tab at the same time in those browsers.
If you know a way, let me know.
Move tabs in Google Chrome
Google Chrome seems to be the only browser that comes with this functionality build in. It uses the same shortcuts that you can use in Windows Explorer to select multiple files.
- Press Ctrl and hold it down
- Select all the tabs that you want to move with the left mouse button
- Release Ctrl and move the tabs to another location while holding down the left mouse button to do so.
There is only a light indicator that multiple tabs have been selected, which can be easily overlooked, especially if you try it out for the first time. You can also use Shift instead of Ctrl to select a range of tabs automatically instead.
Move tabs in Firefox
Firefox users can install an add-on for the browser to add multi-tab operations to it. The Multiple Tab Handler extension for the browser adds that functionality, and a lot more to it.
It enables the functionality that Chrome features natively to Firefox. Hold down the Ctrl-key to select individual tabs that you want to move at the same time, or the Shift-key to select a range of tabs instead.
Both of these options, and many other, can be modified in the preferences that the extension offer.
The Firefox add-on visualizes the selected tabs, which makes it easier to use than the Chrome solution, even though you will notice the highlighting of selected tabs in the Google browser as well once you get used to the color.
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Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.