Tab groups aren’t just one tab, after all
If you pride yourself on organization in all things, tab grouping in Google Chrome is probably one of your favorite things (although if you turn tab groups off, we won’t judge). Then again, it feels like the majority of Android users end up opening loads of tabs on top of each other without a second thought, and end up engaging with groups by accident. Wherever your feelings lie, Google is now showing tab groups some love as it finally gets smart about how Chrome counts them.
Old fashioned tab groups were counted
Tab groups on Android are a relatively new concept, introduced in February last year to somewhat lukewarm reception. But no matter what you think of them, we’d at least expect them to work in a way that makes sense. Until now, however, when counting your open tabs, Chrome treated each group as a single tab.
With the release of Chrome 106 this week, 9to5Google noticed that Chrome’s tab counting logic has been updated so that individual tabs within groups are finally counted correctly, painting a more realistic picture of the amount of things you have running in the background – not to mention the system resources Chrome uses. Needless to say, the shell that contains each tab group does not itself count as a tab.
The number of updated tabs
You’ll find this updated count of all open tabs where it used to be, near the Omnibox, but now reading fine. Chrome 106 is available in the Stable channel through the Google Play Store, and if you haven’t updated yet, there’s no better time than the present.
