Tab overloading is real, as I crowded Edge and Chrome browser bars can attest. But how about … window overload? If you are the kind of person who tries to organize their browser by dedicating different windows to each one tab or tab groupS, Google now allows you to rename thosee the windows so you can jump between them more easily.
The warning? After you have finished browsing for that day, you’ll need to make sure you always close Chrome using three-point menu> Exit. This it will delete all your open windows at once, but aas long as you have activated Continue where you left off in Chrome Settings> Privacy and security, will all reappear – custom names and everything – when you launch the browser again.
Setting up a custom name for each of your Chrome browser windows is easy. First, make sure you’re running the latest version of Chrome (via three-point menu> Help> About Google Chrome). After that, all you have to do is right-click in any free space in the tab bar to display a context menu with the new “Name window …” option.
Click on it and you will be able to assign a custom name to the window:
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I’m using Windows 10 right now, which means that name appears in both of me Alt + Tab view:
So are the previews of the Windows 10 taskbar window when you hover your mouse over the Chrome icon:
Close Chrome browser-specific window for good brands your custom name works far away. That makes sense, since you’ve essentially removed that “instance” of your browser. If you want to keep your browser windows permanent, separate, you should configure them separate Chrome profiles on your desktop or laptop, which will give you completely standalone versions of Chrome that you can invoke with just a few mouse clicks.
For example, I have a “personal” Chrome that I preset for most of my browsing, and a separate “working” Chrome, set to work with all my Lifehacker stuff. It has all the tabs I use for work, including my email, the stories I write, and stories I’m researching, and it is not clogged with my many open tabs for, say, mastering Stardew Valley. (Talso, the hose game tabs are not linked in any way to my work account, which my bosses and I probably prefer.)
If you find it difficult to display the right context menu by right-clicking on the tab bar, you can access the same “Name window …” placing your mouse over the Chrome icon on the Windows 10 taskbar and by right-clicking on any of the open Chrome windows. On macOS, simply click Window> Name Window if you want a very simple way to rename your current Chrome instance.