[Tip] How to Enable or Disable “Window Naming” Feature in Chrome and Edge

This article will help you in enabling or disabling a new feature called “Window Naming” or “Name a Window” in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers. You’ll also learn how to use this new feature in both browsers.

New versions of Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge web browsers come with a brand new feature called Window Naming which allows users to set desired names or labels to these browser windows. Once the user sets names to one or more windows, the new names become visible in Taskbar buttons of these web browsers as well as in Alt+Tab switcher screen.

This new feature has been developed to help users in easily distinguish multiple windows running of their favorite web browser. For example, you have opened multiple windows of Chrome or Edge browser. Now you can define separate names to these windows such as Office, Home, Education, Fun, etc so that you can switch to desired window easily and quickly by having a glance over their names.

Following screenshots show the Window Naming feature live in action in both web browsers:

Window Naming feature in action in Windows Taskbar:

Window Naming feature in action in Alt+Tab Switcher Screen:

In this article, I’ll tell you how to use Window Naming feature in both web browsers as well as how to enable or disable this new feature. Some Chrome or Edge users might have not received this new feature yet as the feature is being rolled out, so this tutorial will help them in manually activating and enabling the feature right now. Similarly, some people might have already received the feature but they didn’t like the feature and want to disable or remove it, this tutorial will help them in deactivating the feature if not required and getting rid of the extra “Name window” option from the context menu.

Let’s start the tutorial.

How to Use Window Naming Feature in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge?

Using the feature is very easy. You just need to right-click on the titlebar of Chrome or Edge and you’ll get “Name window” option present in the context menu as shown in following screenshot:

Click on the “Name window” option and you’ll get a dialog box to enter desired name or label for the current browser window. Set any name in the given text box and click on OK button to save the changes.

That’s it. The new window name will immediately start showing in Taskbar as well as Alt+Tab switcher screen.

You can set different names to multiple Chrome or Edge windows using the same steps.

To undo the new name or restore default window name, again click on “Name window” option and delete the existing name present in the text box. That’s it. It’ll restore default name.

How to Enable or Disable Window Naming Feature in Google Chrome?

If you want to enable or disable Window Naming feature in Google Chrome browser, you can modify a hidden preference/flag to turn on/off the feature.

Following steps will help you in controlling Window Naming feature in Google Chrome:

1. Open Google Chrome web browser and type chrome://flags/ in addressbar and press Enter. It’ll open the advanced configuration page.

2. Now type naming in the “Search flags” box.

Look for following option:

To enable Window Naming feature, select Enabled option from the drop-down box.

To disable Window Naming feature, select Disabled option from the drop-down box.

3. Google Chrome will ask you to restart the browser. Click on “Relaunch now” button to restart Google Chrome.

That’s it. You have successfully enabled or disabled Window Naming feature in Google Chrome web browser.

How to Enable or Disable Window Naming Feature in Microsoft Edge?

Microsoft Edge doesn’t provide any preference/flag to enable/disable Window Naming feature. But you can use a secret command-line parameter to manually turn on/off Window Naming feature in Edge.

Following steps will help you in enabling or disabling Window Naming feature in Microsoft Edge:

1. Right-click on Microsoft Edge shortcut on Desktop and select Properties option. If Microsoft Edge shortcut is pinned to Taskbar, right-click on it and again right-click on Microsoft Edge option present on the jumplist and select Properties option.

If you launch Microsoft Edge from Start Menu, copy and paste following string in RUN dialog box and press Enter key:

It’ll open Programs folder in File Explorer which contains Microsoft Edge shortcut. Right-click on it and select Properties option.

2. Once you open Microsoft Edge properties box, append following string at the end of the text string present in Target field:

To enable Window Naming feature in Microsoft Edge, add following string:

To disable Window Naming feature in Microsoft Edge, add following string:

Remember there must be a blank space between existing text string and the appended string.

3. Apply the changes and launch Microsoft Edge using the shortcut.

That’s it. Now Microsoft Edge will start with Window Naming feature enabled or disabled based on the parameter added by you.

PS: In future, if you decide to restore default settings in Microsoft Edge, delete the new extra text string from Target field in Microsoft Edge shortcut’s properties and save the changes.

NOTE: If you are already using another “–disable-features” or “–enable-features” parameter in Microsoft Edge shortcut, following article will help you in using more than one “–disable-features” or “–enable-features” parameter in Edge’s properties:

[Tip] How to Use Multiple “–Disable-Features” Parameters in Chrome and Edge Shortcut

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