There are many elements that are currently part of such widely used and widespread programs as Internet browsers. In fact, they do not stop growing, largely due to their widespread current use, both on desktop PCs and mobile devices. At this time highlight proposals such as Mozilla Firefox , Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge, although there are many other options.
Although all these programs to which we refer may at first seem very similar, internally they present important differences. These refer to certain functions or behavior that their developers implement. It is true that at the base, their objective is the same, to give us access to the vastness of the Internet in the best possible way. For this, they put at our disposal a multitude of functions and integrated features that facilitate this task.
Usefulness of tab thumbnails when browsing
In addition, they do not stop evolving, largely thanks to the almost constant updates that do not stop reaching us. These are full of fixes and new additions. On many occasions these novelties focus on the requests that millions of users make to the corresponding developers for these programs. But at the same time, sometimes, they either ignore anything, or even remove useful functions.
This is precisely the case that we are going to talk about in these same lines. At the same time we want to focus on the program of this type that is most used around the world, and by far. This is none other than Google Chrome , a proposal that has a huge difference compared to its most immediate competitors such as Firefox or Edge . Well, once we know these, in these lines we are going to focus on a functionality that many are asking for the program. Specifically, we refer to the display of thumbnails of the open tabs.
As you can imagine, when we have many of these elements open in a single window, this allows us to locate a specific one more quickly. In fact, at a single glance we can find the tab that interests us thanks to the aforementioned thumbnail of its content. But since Chrome does not integrate them by default, we will have to use third-party extensions. These are elements that we find in the official accessories store of the program and that we can add to it in order to increase its versatility. Say that we can access it directly from this link .
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Chrome extensions to view thumbnails of the tabs
That is why we are going to offer you a series of proposals of this type below. Specifically, we refer to some of the add-ons that we have mentioned, which will bring the thumbnails of the Chrome tabs to the Google program. As many of you probably already know, these elements are easily integrated into Chrome itself to add features that a priori it does not integrate.
Tabs Manager, manage tabs with thumbnails
To start with all this that we are talking about, we will talk about Tabs Manager , an extension that, as its name suggests, helps us manage tabs. As we said before, the extension as such is added to Chrome and presents us with some useful functions for these specific elements. This way we will obtain a much more general and quicker view of the tabs currently open in the different windows .
At the same time, the plugin itself offers us the possibility of searching between these and seeing the thumbnails of each tab on the screen at a single glance. At the same time we will have the possibility to see the titles of the open tabs, and it is worth mentioning that the thumbnails are created automatically. We can also group the tabs by domain name, or search based on the title or URL .
Tab Thumbnails Switcher, display thumbnails options
Here we find another interesting proposal of this type that allows us to carry out various management tasks with the tabs in Chrome. In this way, initially we are going to find that we can use the key combination Ctrl + Tab to switch between the currently open tabs. In addition, they will be presented on the screen with their corresponding thumbnail preview , something that we can optionally activate.
But that is not all that we are going to find here. We tell you this because additionally we can customize a different keyboard shortcut or choose between a menu with or without thumbnails. In addition, something very important for many is that this add-on does not access or store our personal browsing data. So what is intended is to maintain the privacy of users when using Chrome.
Tab Thumbnails, preview thumbnails without further ado
As its name suggests, this is an extension that is limited, neither more nor less, to what we are looking for in these lines. In this way, once we have installed Tab Thumbnails in Google Chrome, we can see a thumbnail of the web page to which each of the open tabs refers. Therefore here we are not going to find additional options as in previous cases.
Tab Preview Board, new panel to navigate between tabs
Thanks to this other alternative of this type that we offer, we can switch between the tabs that we have open, through their thumbnail previews . The plugin creates a preview board with the tabs and allows us to see the content of each one in a small way so that we can access it later.
Tab Viewer, a panel with tab thumbnails
Thanks to this other add-on for Chrome, we can preview all open tabs in a window with a grid view and based on thumbnails. What will allow us is to manage and organize these elements in a much more visual way in mosaic format. For all this we will only have to use the Alt + T key combination to activate the complement. At the same time we will be able to close all the tabs at once, rearrange them, create a personalized workspace, or add a collection of tabs under a name.
