Open Tabs view

You know the tab is open. You just cannot find which of your four windows it is in. The Open Tabs view rounds up every open tab across every Chrome window and lays them out in one list. This page shows you where that list lives, how to shape it, and what you can do to a tab from it. Even tabs that have been put to sleep to save memory show up here, listed by their title and web address with a small suspended note.

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Where it lives

Open Tabs is in both surfaces. In the card and side panel it is on from the start, as a pinned section above your workspaces. If you would rather have it out of the way, go to Settings → Open Tabs view → Placement and switch to Dedicated tab, and it becomes its own Open Tabs tab instead. On the dashboard, click Open Tabs at the top of the sidebar, where it shows a live count of how many tabs you have. The whole main area becomes the list, with room to breathe.

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Make the list read your way

Two settings shape the list on both surfaces, both under Settings → Open Tabs view. Group by window is on by default. The list gets a divider per Chrome window, This window and Window 2 and so on, with the current window also showing which workspace it is using. Turn it off for one flat All open tabs list. Sort tabs by offers Window order (tab strip) to mirror the order of your real tabs, Most recently active to float what you touched last, or Site name (A–Z) to group by site.

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What you can do with a tab

Click any row and you go straight to that tab, even if it is in another window. Hover a row and a set of quick actions appears: Two small markers help you triage. A green dot means that tab is front-and-centre in its window. A green check means it is already saved in the workspace you are viewing. Drag any row onto a workspace to file the tab there, which works in the card, the side panel and the dashboard. Hold ⌥ Option (Alt on Windows and Linux) as you let go to copy instead of move, and you can undo any drop for ten seconds afterwards. See Moving tabs. To take several at once, hover a row and a small square appears where its icon was. Click it to start selecting, then ⌘-click (Ctrl-click) for one more row or Shift-click for a run of them. Drag any selected row and the whole selection goes together. Esc clears it.

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Whole-window moves

When grouping by window is on, each window’s divider carries two bigger levers. Save all saves every tab in that window into a brand-new workspace. A small dialog suggests a name, and clicking Create & save captures the whole window in one go. This is the one to use when the window is the project. Suspend others puts every eligible background tab in that window to sleep at once, leaving your current tab awake.

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Close duplicates in one click

Opened the same page three times across two windows? When the list spots duplicates, a Close duplicates button appears with the count, in the dashboard panel header and at the top of the side panel’s pinned Open Tabs section. One click closes the extras across every window. It always keeps the copy you are using, and it never touches pinned tabs or tabs you have renamed apart on purpose. The full rules are on Rename & tidy tabs.

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Your AI knows about these tabs too

The same open tabs feed into the AI assistant, so you can ask the chat something like “which of my open tabs haven’t I saved yet?” and it knows the answer, because it can see the same list you can.

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A quick note on memory

Listing a sleeping tab does not wake it up. Open Tabs reads the title and address only, so your sleeping tabs stay asleep. For more on keeping memory in check, see Performance & RAM.