“Pin Tab” A Simple and Useful Google Chrome Tip

by Dinu on 02/10/2009



Google Chrome Pin Tab

Google Chrome Pin Tab

Today, I am going to share small, and simply Google Chrome tip, which is really useful if you have many tabs open at the same time.

{  Update: This feature even got better recently – Find out more Here }

Named “Pin Tab”, this feature lets you reduce the width of each tab, by showing only the favoicon of the page, and not the page name. I will explain this in detail.

{ check out another simple but really useful Google Chrome Tip here }

Before we start, let me tell you what a favicon is, it is a small ( really small ) icon that will be shown next to the website’s name or webpage’s title, on each browser tab. ( provided, the website has its own favicon. ). For example, if you look at the tab of chromestory.com now, the default favicon is show, which is a small image of a traditional paper sheet.

Pin Tab, when enabled, will show only this favoicon image, and not the title of the page, and that will reduce the width of the tab, in to less than 1 Cm.

To enable this feature, all you need to do is, right click on the tab and select “Pin Tab” from the bottom. Since you can enable or disable this feature for individual tabs, you can actually pin some regularly used tabs like your email, and save some space.

Cool Uh ?

via lifehacker.

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mapmanic October 13, 2009 at 9:15 pm

Chrome “Pin Tab” feature only available in development build as of 2009 Oct 13.

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Travis G October 29, 2009 at 1:40 am

My Chrome browser doesn’t show this pin feature. Is it only for Dev channel subscribers?

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chrome story October 30, 2009 at 3:43 pm

as the comment on the top says

Chrome “Pin Tab” feature only available in development build as of 2009 Oct 13.

but, it will soon be available for everyone else .. :)

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Will January 27, 2010 at 10:42 pm

You could also just ‘slam’ the tab against the left of the tab-bar.

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Leisureguy February 9, 2010 at 1:03 am

I have the dev build and used to have “Pin Tab” on the menu, but that’s now gone. Too bad. I did use it.

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Matt Rogowski February 12, 2010 at 8:04 pm

@Leisureguy Ah, glad it’s not just me then, I’m on the Dev channel too and just noticed it had gone… odd, hope they add it back.

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chrome story February 12, 2010 at 8:17 pm

Yes guys .. the pin tab is missing from dev version now…. I believe they are planning something better with it :D

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chrome story February 26, 2010 at 4:38 pm

Okay guys .. for those of you who reported pin tab missing from development versions .. its back now !! and with a nice zoom effect for mouse over !!!

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