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it happens all the time you get caught up in research to buy something you keep opening tabs in a Wikipedia rabbit hole before you know it you've got so many tabs open at Google Chrome that you can't find anything here's how you never lose a tab again in Google Chrome you my friend need a tab manager extension I'm going to show you a couple because different people have different tastes first up is tab man tabs manager go to the Google Chrome Web Store search for tab man then install it tab man has this superhero looking icon almost like tab man was an anagram for something this is a mystery for a smarter person to solve any way you can click tab man or use the keyboard shortcut alt + Z to invoke tab man you'll see a drop-down of all the tabs and you can start typing to search for your inbox or whatever you're looking for tab man only searches in the window you've got open if you've got two windows with lots of tabs you'll have to switch windows to find a tab elsewhere second let's take a look at the tab manager called tab manager I wonder what it does after you install it you'll see little dots next to your address bar clicking it shows you the icons for each site you have open tabs and other windows are also visible if the icon look isn't working out for you you can click the change the layout button and get full lists you can shift click on icons to do actions like pinned tabs or close them there's even a search on the bottom lastly there's too many tabs this is a much more visual way of tab management the icon next to the address bar features a little icon but let you know how many tabs you've got open at the time when you click it you'll see many versions of your tabs with a full title visible this is search in sort functionality as well by default too many tabs only shows you tabs in the window you're working in you can change that in the options menu oh one more thing I'm guilty of opening up many windows minimizing them are moving them to many different desktops so one more tool that is indispensable when it comes to never losing a tab is an extension called merge windows clicking the merge windows button will combine every open window of chrome into one megazord of a thing there you go how to never lose a tab in google chrome for more how to's like this check out how to cnet com I Maya's actor and I'll see you later