Moving several chrome tabs at once

October 2, 2020 3:21 PM

When my main working browser window gets too busy with tabs, I like to move some of the less-important tabs to a new window to come back to later. I do this by picking up one tab and pulling it off, and then the next, and then the next, so I've got like seven new windows, and THEN I drag them one-by-one all into one window. Is there a way in chrome, or an extension available, that would let me say "Okay, you five tabs, go make a new window" or "you three tabs, hop into the window where I sent those five"?

This might be kind-of a dumb question by my brain is so fried from managing distance learning that my googling skills are useless.

posted by Eyebrows McGee to Technology (12 answers total)

Best answer: This is what Tab Groups are for!
posted by yeahlikethat at 3:34 PM on October 2, 2020 [1 favorite]

Best answer: In Windows I just hold down CTRL while I click each tab, then keep holding it while I right click one of the selected tabs. A menu comes up that includes 'move selected tabs to another window'
posted by buildmyworld at 3:35 PM on October 2, 2020 [10 favorites]

omg you can select multiple tabs??!? GAME CHANGER.
posted by yeahlikethat at 3:40 PM on October 2, 2020 [7 favorites]

Best answer: If you hold Shift and click another tab, it will select all between the current tab and clicked one. No need to make a group unless you want to.
posted by wnissen at 3:54 PM on October 2, 2020 [6 favorites]

Best answer: On MacOS, hold down Command (⌘) and click each tab you want to drag.
posted by tonycpsu at 4:32 PM on October 2, 2020 [2 favorites]

omg you can select multiple tabs??!? GAME CHANGER.

For real. This is relevant to my interests.
posted by medusa at 4:33 PM on October 2, 2020 [1 favorite]

This is great, thank you for the question and answers.
posted by theora55 at 4:49 PM on October 2, 2020

You can select multiple tabs on Firefox too.
posted by ArgentCorvid at 5:53 PM on October 2, 2020

Response by poster: OH HOLY SHIT
posted by Eyebrows McGee at 9:37 PM on October 2, 2020 [4 favorites]

One tab is useful. Closes all tabs with one click but saves them in a list for quick reloading
posted by BrStekker at 1:29 AM on October 3, 2020 [3 favorites]

Related: if you group bookmarks into a folder, “Reference” say, you can right click the folder and “open all in new window”. It’s a handy way to open a bunch of frequently used resources—and keep them all together.
posted by notyou at 2:01 AM on October 3, 2020

Probably overkill for your use case but I use the Toby extension for this and it lets me save tabs by topic go come back to later.
posted by eleanna at 8:25 AM on October 3, 2020