How to Enable Tab Groups in Edge Chromium Browser

This post shows the simple way to enable tab groups in Microsoft Edge browser. Once enabled, you can group tabs to better organize browser clutter.

Microsoft Edge can deal with many open tabs. However, after quite a few tabs, it rapidly gets hard to oversee and harder to monitor them. 

Tab Groups is another element that permits you to group tabs for better organization. Tab Grouping is disabled by default and you need to enable it via flags to turn it on and enable Tab Groups in Edge. 

In this guide, you’ll get familiar with the means to enable and utilizing Tab Groups to more readily oversee and organize your open tabs on the Chromium Microsoft Edge on Windows 10.

How to enable Tab Groups on Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge.

Type the following path in the address bar and press Enter:
edge://flags/#tab-groups

Under the “Tab Groups” section, use the drop-down menu on the right and select Enabled (or Disabled to turn the feature off).
Tab Groups optionTab Groups option

Click the Relaunch button.

Once you complete the steps, you can start creating groups to better manage your open tabs.

How to use Tab Groups on Edge

Use Tab Groups on Edge:

Open Microsoft Edge.

Open some websites.

Right-click a tab and select the Add to new group option.
Add to new group option

Click the colored circular button to customize the group.

Specify the name of the group of tabs. For example, News, Videos, Research, etc.
Microsoft Edge tab group settings

Select the color to better identify the group.

Right-click other tabs and select the Add to existing group menu and choose the group you want to add the tab.

Right-click a tab and select the Add to new group option to create another group.

After you complete the steps, you’ll have better control and organization over your open tabs.

When using Tab Groups, you’ll drag and drop tabs around to maneuver them to a different group, otherwise, you can right-click a tab and choose the increase existing group menu and choose the group you would like to maneuver it.

If you do not need the tab during a group, right-click the tab and choose the Remove from Group option. To get rid of all the tabs, click the colored dot and choose the Ungroup option, or Close group to shut all the tabs. Otherwise, you can always close each tab individually.

If you don’t just like the current order of the groups, you’ll click and hold the colored dot icon to rearrange the order of the groups within the window.

While Tab Groups may be a useful feature to manage open pages, remember that the feature is merely available during the present session, once you shut and reopen Microsoft Edge, the groups are going to be removed.