Microsoft is helping Google Bring Multiple Tab Management To Chrome-this new feature allows users to move multiple tabs to a different window.

Microsoft is helping to Bring Multiple Tab Management To Google Chrome.

Open-Source Chromium project over the last few months for its new Edge Browser. Microsoft’s new Edge browser is based on Chromium, and the company has been adding tons of changes to itsover the last few months for its new Edge Browser.

It looks like Microsoft’s decision is about to help Google though again in the form of "Multiple Tab Management".

Multiple Tab Management

Microsoft’s new Edge browser has a new feature that allows users to move multiple tabs to a different window, and it’s a really useful feature for power users who tend to have a ton of tabs open. The feature isn’t already available on Chrome, but a Chromium engineer recently requested the feature to be added to Chromium from Edge.

As it

was recently showcased in a recent discussion between a Google and Microsoft engineer:

In the discussion,

we see Google software engineer Leonard Grey post “If you’re still interested in upstreaming this from Edge, we’d be happy to take it,” with a Microsoft engineer Justin Gallagher responding “Sounds great! I’ll take ownership of this issue then,”.

The above discussion about the new feature between the two engineers was the ability to move multiple tabs to a new window from the tab context menu, something which Edge offered, but Chrome didn’t. Two weeks after this chat though, Microsoft committed code that enables this feature in Chromium , which Google can then use to build into their own Chrome browser.

Move tab to new window supports multiple selections Adds support for moving multiple tabs to a new window from the tab context menu. It also correctly handles pinned tabs, preserving their pinned state in the new window. Since multiple tabs now can be moved, the string was changed to pluralize “tab” to “tabs” when necessary.

While not exactly an Innovative feature, but this could mark the beginning of more user-facing contributions from Microsoft on Chromium and Chrome. The feature could take a little while to actually show up on Google Chrome, but considering it is already very functional on Edge, it may not take too long to test the feature and bring it to the public.