TL;DR
  • Google Chrome is testing a horizontally scrollable tab bar, making it easier to navigate dozens or hundreds of open tabs.
  • Users can scroll through tabs using their mouse wheel or dedicated arrow buttons, while pinned tabs remain fixed on the left.
  • The feature is currently available in Chrome Canary through an experimental flag, with no confirmed stable release date.

Google Chrome is finally learning a trick that rivals like Firefox and Vivaldi have mastered for a few years now. Soon after (finally) giving us vertical tabs to stack all our open webpages neatly along the side, Chrome is learning a thing or two about making its traditional horizontal tab feel a lot more manageable, especially for those who keep several tabs open at once.

The tech giant is testing a new horizontally scrollable tab bar, which should make it easier to navigate all open webpages once the tab strip fills up.