Chrome lets you find and close duplicate tabs via Tab Search

Google is testing a feature that helps Chrome detect and warn about duplicate tabs. When enabled, the feature declutters your tab strip, including inactive tabs, to keep your tab bar tidy and clean.

Google Chrome, the most popular browser in the world, is on a mission to provide better tab management options. For instance, it already offers tab groups that organize many tabs into neatly arranged groups. Chrome can automatically create tab groups for you using AI.

Google has been working on a feature called Tabstrip Declutter that tracks unused tabs and alerts users through the tab search to clean them up. If you found this feature useful, you’ll be pleased to know that Google is now adding another feature to Chrome to address duplicate tab issues.

Chrome’s Tab Search now helps you remove Duplicates

Sometimes, unknowingly you may open the same tab multiple times while doing research. When your tab bar is crowded, you may not notice these duplicates, which clutter Chrome even more and contribute to increased memory usage, CPU usage, and other resource consumption. Chrome has now got you covered with a new feature.

When the “tabstripdedupe” flag is enabled in the Canary version, and you have many tabs open including duplicates, clicking the tab search icon will show inactive and duplicate tabs and offer a “Close All” button at the bottom. If you click “Close All,” Chrome will close both unused and duplicate tabs, keeping your tab bar clean with only active tabs. Chrome removes the oldest duplicate tabs but retains the most recent ones.

How to enable the Tab deduplication feature in Chrome

1. Open Chrome Canary
2. Visit chrome://flags
3. Find and enable “Tab Deduplication”
4. Restart Chrome.

Other browsers like Firefox, Opera, and Brave already can find and close duplicate tabs. So, while Chrome isn’t gaining something entirely new and unique, it still offers a plus by keeping your tab bar organized without unused and duplicate tabs.

Apart from handling duplicate tabs in Chrome, Google is testing new sign-in options for Chrome when signing into YouTube and Gmail. Additionally, Chrome is improving Safety Check to run right away when you launch it.