Posted on May 18, 2012 in Mac, Quick Tips |

You love Google Chrome.  You switched to Chrome before the icon changed and try out every beta version.  You tell all your friends about how fast Chrome is and how wonderful life is “on” Chrome.  Then you realize you have 61 tabs open and you can’t see which one is which.

toomanytabs

You’re firefox friend teases you about how easy it is with tab groups and that “maybe you should go find a plugin for that on your browser”…

Joking aside, here is one tip to see a list of all your open tabs in the default chrome.

 Chrome has a built-in task manager that allows you to see all the individual processes that the browser is running.  Each tab is a separate process so they will all be listed.

How can I see my open tabs?

 

Go to the wrench and select View Background Pages.  The key combination of shift+esc might work for you as well.

view background pages

 

All chrome processes will be listed along with other useful information.  Tabs have the word Tab: in front of them.

task manager

 

Double click on the tab (listed alphabetically) that you want to view.

 

that worked