How to save a group of tabs to bookmarks in Chrome?
To save a group of tabs to bookmarks in Chrome, right-click the colored tab group name and select Save group to keep it in your bookmarks bar for easy access. Alternatively, use Ctrl+Shift+D (Windows) or Cmd+Shift+D (Mac) to bookmark all open tabs into a new folder.
Google launched the ability to save tab groups to the bookmarks of the Chrome web browser earlier this year. Back then, the saving was not persistent, which meant that the saved group would be removed from the bookmarks bar upon relaunch of the browser.
Now, Google has finally added the missing bits that make the feature persists across sessions. The feature is available in Chrome Canary only at the time of writing. Most users may need to enable it on the chrome://flags page to make use of it.
Chrome: Save tab group to bookmarks bar
Here is how that is done:
- Load chrome://flags/#tab-groups-save in the Chrome browser's address bar.
- Set the status of the experimental feature to Enabled.
- Restart Google Chrome.
Right-click on a tab group's name after the restart and select the "save group" option. You will notice that the name is added to the browser's bookmarks bar when the save feature is toggled.
You may close the entire group in the tab bar or individual tabs now without losing the information. A click on the tab group name on the bookmarks bar reopens all tabs of the groups again. What happens when you add or remove tabs from the group? These changes are not saved automatically by Chrome. Only the state of the tab group at the time of activating the save feature is remembered by the Chrome browser.
If you want to save an updated state to the bookmarks bar, you need to toggle the save feature again, by turning it off and then on again.
Saving a tab group to the bookmarks bar is a welcome addition to Chrome's tab grouping functionality. Tab groups may be saved and then closed in the tab bar to make room for other sites.
Tab groups are an excellent feature for browser users who have lots of tabs open. It improves the manageability of open tabs significantly. The option to save tab groups improves the functionality further.
Other Chromium-based browsers may introduce the functionality in their browsers in the future as well.
I love this feature! I use it so much that I would like to widen the space on the bookmark bar for my saved groups. Haven’t figured out if that is possible yet.
Thanks for the info. This is awesome. Now I just hope they don’t take it away (Google giveth, Google taketh away ;-). I shudder to think what might happen to the saved tab groups then…
Never understood this feature. Its more confusing than having ton of tabs opened at once.
Off topic:
If you change the font size to greater of the browser (Chrome+Edge+Firefox), then a display error occurs. You have to set it to standard/advised font to prevent this.
I solved this by setting the browser zoom to 110% (or higher), and install the extension Zoom WE (setting to: autofit + min 80% + max 100%) to prevent sites to display wider than the screen.
In Chrome and Edge then all enlarges a little without falling off the screen.
In FF the font in Bookmarks-Page seems not to be changeable (too small for me), my trick seems mostly to work on the displayed site. So FF is not so settable/trickable as Chrome+Edge.
Addition to “Display error at font size bigger than default”.
I wrote that Edge+Chrome worked well with my trick, and FF not always.
Now Edge does not want to to behave well. Chrome is perfect, FF more or less also OK.
You can test the effect at displaying the openings-page of this site: https://www.extremetech.com/
PM: I have my Windows screen set at 125%.
Collections from Edge are still much better
Great news!
Hopefully, Firefox well also implement it (I’m currently using an extension which works perfectly, but a native solution would be better in the long run)
Chrome’s Tab Group is pretty bad tbh, it doesn’t feel like enjoyable/usable, compare to the add-on of Firefox.
Select the tabs you want to bookmark (ctrl or shift as any other selection) right click, hit “Bookmark Tabs…”
Select the tabs you want to bookmark (ctrl or shift as any other selection) right click, hit “Bookmark Tabs…”