[Tip] Enable Hidden Secret “Chrome Duet” Bottom Toolbar in Chrome on Android

Today in this article, we are going to share an interesting tip for Google Chrome app on Android mobile phones. If you use Chrome browser on your Google Android smartphone to browse websites, you’ll definitely like this tip.

By default when you open Chrome in your mobile phone, it shows the toolbar at top containing Home button, address bar, new tab button and More (3-dots) menu to access various options and settings.

With the help of the trick given in this article, you’ll be able to move the main toolbar to bottom in Chrome. This hidden secret feature is called “Chrome Duet” or “Split Toolbar“. Previously it was known as Chrome Duplex and Chrome Home but later it was renamed to Chrome Duet.

Once you apply this cool trick, it’ll move the standard toolbar and all buttons to bottom in Chrome as shown in following screenshot:

The toolbar will contain following buttons: Home, Share, Search, Tabs and More menu. So you get 2 extra buttons (Share and Search) in the new bottom toolbar.

If you want, you can also add/show labels to the buttons to show their names in bottom toolbar as shown in following screenshot:

If you also want to reveal and enable this hidden secret “Chrome Duet” feature in Chrome to move the toolbar and tab switcher to bottom, following steps will help you in activating the new feature:

1. Open Chrome and type chrome://flags in address bar and tap on Go. It’ll open Chrome Experiments page where you can turn on/off several features.

2. Now type duet in Search flags box and it’ll show following results:

3. To enable Chrome Duet feature i.e. to move toolbar to bottom, tap on the “Default” drop-down box given below “Chrome Duet” preference and select “Enabled” option from the list.

If you also want to show labels on buttons, tap on the “Default” drop-down box given below “Chrome Duet Labels” preference and select “Enabled” option from the list.

4. Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch Now” button to relaunch Google Chrome.

IMPORTANT NOTE 1: If the toolbar is not moved to bottom, completely close Chrome app using Recent apps button on your mobile phone and close all running apps. Now relaunch Chrome and you’ll get the Chrome Duet feature activated and toolbar moved to bottom.

IMPORTANT NOTE 2: You can also use Chrome://restart command in address bar to completely restart Google Chrome and apply changes.

PS: In future, if you decide to restore default toolbar at top in Chrome, set the above mentioned preferences to Default again.

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