Find the tab you lost.
Search your open Chrome tabs instead of checking them one by one.
A tiny search box for your open pages.
You remember reading a recipe, but the tab strip has become a row of tiny icons. Opening every tab works, eventually. Searching the tabs gives you another route: look for a word in the page title or address.
In desktop Chrome, click the address bar, type @tabs, and press Space or Tab. Chrome switches that search to your open tabs. Add a word from the page you want and choose a matching result. You are finding an existing page, not asking the web for a new one.
Find the existing page
12 open tabs · one recipe
@tabs soup → matching open tab
Choose a word that stands out.
If every open page belongs to the same website, the website name may produce too many matches. A distinctive word from the article title is a better clue. Think “soup” instead of “recipes,” or a project name instead of “documents.”
This is a good habit to practice with three tabs first. You can see exactly which page should match. If you get no results, check that you entered the @tabs mode; an ordinary address-bar search may take you to web results instead.
@tabs soup
Make it yours.
- Open three harmless pages with different titles.
- In Chrome’s address bar, type @tabs and press Space.
- Type a distinctive title word and select the matching tab.
What changed when you tried it?
A little nudge
Look for the tab-search mode before entering the search word.
What to look for
Chrome switches to the matching tab you already had open. It should not need to open a second copy.
Take it one small step further
Try a word shared by two tabs, then make it more specific.
Search for the page you remember, not the icon you can barely see.
Read more: Google Chrome · Tab search ↗
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