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How to Open, Pin, and Close Tabs You probably know the basics already. To open a new tab on Chrome, click the New Tab button. Alternatively, you can use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+T on Windows (or Command+T on a Mac). To close a tab, click the X on each tab or press Ctrl+W on Windows (Command+W on a Mac). Okay, that’s all really simple, but let’s dig a little further and show you what else you can do.
If you want to reorder tabs, you can click and drag them around to fit your needs. Similarly, if you want a tab to open in a new window, drag it out of the current browser window, and drop it elsewhere on your desktop. Right-click on any open tab and check out the options available to you. The New Tab, Reload, and Duplicate options are pretty obvious. Pinning a tab means it will slide to the left as a small tab that persists from browser session to browser session. Close Chrome, reopen it, and the tab will still be pinned until you unpin or close it.
These are great for tabs that you keep open at all times, like your email. Muting a tab will silence a noisy tab such as an autoplaying video. You can also click the little speaker icon on next to the close button to mute a tab. Closing tabs is easy, as we discussed, but if you have a lot of tabs open and you don’t want to close every single tab one by one, you can right-click on the one you want to keep and choose “Close Other Tabs”. A Chrome session with way too many tabs open, if only there were an easy way to close all of them except one or two On the other hand, if you have some important tabs arranged at the beginning of your stack of tabs and you don’t want to close everything else, you can right-click on the last tab from the left that you want to keep open, and choose “Close Tabs to the Right”.
Whether joining from your computer or your phone, connecting your audio is an important first. Google Chrome; Firefox; Microsoft Edge; Safari 11 or higher. Mac Navigate to System Preferences>Sounds; On Output and Input tabs, select your. Connection, the codec will adjust the quality to avoid side effects like clipping.
The last two options on that right-click menu allow you to reopen tabs you might have inadvertently closed. The keyboard shortcut for this is Ctrl+Shift+T on Windows and Command+Shift+T on Mac. It’s one of the most useful keyboard shortcuts in your browser. Finally, if you have a group of useful tabs open and you think they’re all worthy of bookmarks, then you can choose “Bookmark All Tabs”.
The Tab-Related Keyboard Shortcuts You Should Know Chrome has an abundance of keyboard shortcuts (some of which we’ve already mentioned) to better navigate and manipulate tabs.