All your tabs, all in one place
Ever lose a tab in a sea of windows? The Open Tabs view rounds up every open tab across every Chrome window and lays them out in one clean list. No more squinting at tiny tab icons or alt-tabbing forever like it’s a workout. Even tabs that have been put to sleep to save memory show up here — they’re listed by their title and web address (with a little suspended note), wide awake on the page even while they nap in the background.Open Tabs is a live list. As you open, close, and jump between tabs, the view keeps up — no refresh button needed.
Where it lives
Open Tabs is in both surfaces:- Side panel — on from the start as a pinned section above your workspaces. Prefer it out of the way? In Settings → Open Tabs view → Placement, switch to Dedicated tab and it becomes its own Open Tabs tab in the panel instead.
- Dashboard — click Open Tabs at the top of the sidebar (it shows a live count of how many tabs you’ve got). The whole main area becomes the list, with room to breathe.
Make the list read your way
Two settings shape the list on both surfaces (Settings → Open Tabs view):- Group by window (on by default) — the list gets a divider per Chrome window: This window, Window 2, and so on, with the current window also showing which workspace it’s using. Turn it off for one flat All open tabs list.
- Sort tabs by — 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.
What you can do with a tab
Click any row and you’re whisked straight to that tab, even if it’s in another window. Hover a row and a set of quick actions appears:
Little markers help you triage: a green dot means that tab is front-and-centre in its window, and a green check means it’s already saved in the workspace you’re viewing. On the dashboard you can also drag a row onto any workspace in the sidebar to move the tab there.
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; click Create & save and the whole window is captured in one go. Perfect for “this window is the project”.
- Suspend others — puts every eligible background tab in that window to sleep at once, leaving your current tab awake. Instant quiet for a noisy window.