Right now it can be kind of finicky to pop up at first. To turn it on, paste chrome://flags/#enable-conditional-strip into the address bar, hit enter, enable the flag, and restart. An 'X' button to the left will close the tab bar entirely, while a plus button on the right will open a new tab.įor now, the feature is in Chrome Beta for some people, and you'll need to turn on a flag to enable it.
The currently active tab gets a little close icon next to it, meaning that tapping the tab again will close it. Tabs take the form of site favicons, and just like on a real computer, a single tap will switch between tabs. There is a button that will take you to cascading UI of different Chrome windows, but a one-tap tab strip hasn't existed on Chrome for phones-until now!Ī new Chrome for Android experiment, first spotted by Android Police, will add a tab strip to the bottom of the Chrome window. On and Android tablet, Chrome looks like a real browser with a top tab strip, but on a phone, you don't get any kind of tab UI.
If you have too many tabs, the tab strip will be scrollable.Įveryone reading this probably uses multiple tabs on a desktop computer, but on mobile, tab management can be tough.
