How to Disable and Remove Tab Groups Feature in Microsoft Edge
If you upgraded or installed new version of Microsoft Edge web browser (version 93 or later), you might have noticed that it comes with a new “Tab Groups” feature which allows users to create separate groups or collections of desired tabs. This feature will help users in organizing and arranging their running tabs easily in different groups. For example, a user can create separate groups for home, office, school, etc and then arrange the webpages tabs in those groups.
This feature was already available in Google Chrome web browser since long time and now the same feature has been implemented in Microsoft Edge web browser.
To use new Tab Groups feature, you just need to right-click on a tab in Microsoft Edge and select “Add to new group” option. Now you can set a name to the new tab group, select desired background color, etc to easily distinguish groups.
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Once you create a tab group, you can add other tabs to the same group by right-clicking on the tab and selecting “Add tab to group” option and then select the existing tab group.
It’s a very useful feature but if you don’t like the Tab Groups feature and want to disable or remove the entire Tab Groups feature, this article will help you.
There is a hidden secret preference/flag available to completely turn off Tab Groups feature in Microsoft Edge. Once you modify the preference, it’ll deactivate Tab Groups feature and all options to create and arrange tab groups will be deleted from the tab context menu.
Following steps will help you in disabling Tab Groups feature in Microsoft Edge web browser:
1. Open Microsoft Edge web browser and type edge://flags/ in address bar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.
2. Now type tab group in the “Search flags” box.
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It’ll directly go to following option:
Tab Groups
Allows users to organize tabs into visually distinct groups, e.g. to separate tabs associated with different tasks. – Mac, Windows, Linux
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3. To disable the tab groups feature, select Disabled from the drop-down box.
4. Microsoft Edge will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Restart” button to restart Microsoft Edge.
That’s it. You have successfully deactivated and disabled tab grouping feature in Microsoft Edge.
PS: If you decide to re-enable this feature in future, select “Default” option from the drop-down box and restart the browser.
Also Check:
it doesn’t pop up, when searched in flag
It doesn’t come up.
It’s a page full of all sorts of options, but no “Tab groups”.
Tab Groups cannot be disabled in Edge://flags on this date.
Confirmed that Tab Groups cannot be disabled in Edge on this date too.
I like the idea of new features and always welcome them.
I just don’t like how Microsoft shoves it in everybody.
Why can’t I disable/remove this setting?