After the release of Chrome 69 with a new interface, many users of the app realized that Google was trying to duplicate the old Firefox environment.
Google developers seem to want to add two other Firefox features to Chrome: tab groups and the scrollable tabs bar.
Both are currently in development and we do not know when we will see them coming to the stable version of Chrome, at least for the time being.
The news came out earlier this week when a journalist from the Chrome Story blog noticed a problem with Chrome issue tracker with the name “tab groups”.
The Google developer who posted the issue did not specify how the upcoming feature would work, but said "users can organize tabs into visually distinct groups for tabs related to different tasks."
Η περιγραφή του χαρακτηριστικού είναι αρκετά αόριστη, αλλά αξίζει να σημειωθεί ότι το ίδρυμα Mozilla διέθετε ένα παρόμοιο χαρακτηριστικό στον Firefox το 2010. Το συγκεκριμένο χαρακτηριστικό επέτρεπε στους χρήστες να οργανώνουν καρτέλες μέσα σε ομάδες, εμφανίζοντας μόνο μια καρτέλα από κάθε ομάδα.
The feature was great for users who liked working with dozens or hundreds of tabs, but Firefox developers removed it at the end of 2015 because it was used by very few users.
Google, on the other hand, could add the tab grouping mechanism used by the Vivaldi browser. It is not too long to wait and see.
Adding support for tabs groups makes sense, since it will help improve Chrome's accumulation tab.
The accumulation of tabs occurs when you open too many tabs, which indirectly leads to a decrease in the width of each tab. This makes it impossible to read the title of the tab or to view the favicon of the site. Finding one page among the dozens of tiny tabs is terribly annoying.
Ωστόσο, ο Chrome δεν είναι ο μόνος browser που αντιμετωπίζει το συγκεκριμένο πρόβλημα σχεδίασης. Οι browsers Vivaldi, Opera, και Brave, έχουν ακριβώς την ίδια συμπεριφορά, ενώ ο Firefox και Edge τις Microsoft δεν το κάνουν. Και τα δύο προγράμματα περιήγησης χρησιμοποιούν μια λειτουργία που ονομάζεται scroll in the scrollable tabs bar, which keeps the tab width at a certain minimum size, but allows the user to search left and right using the scroll arrows.
According to Techdows, Google will add a similar feature to an upcoming version of Chrome. "The scrollable tabs bar is in development", said Peter Casting, a Google Chrome developer, to a Reddit user.
Looking at the issue Tracker of Chrome/Chromium, we find that scrollable tabs have been one of the most requested features of Chrome in recent years, and that there are posts from September 2008, with the release of Chrome 1.0.
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