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You know how when you get to 10+ tabs open in your browser (in this case Chrome) and you can't tell which tab is which anymore? I'm sure there are some good extension or something - what's the best solution to this problem?

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you can identify some of them, obviously, via the favicons. – studiohack♦ May 30 '11 at 23:46
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yeah but if i have 20 links on the site open, that's not much help – qntmfred May 30 '11 at 23:47
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I know, just had to state the obvious. – studiohack♦ May 30 '11 at 23:51
Looks like you are using older version of chrome – user May 31 '11 at 6:26
@crucified it's just a screenshot i grabbed off google image search – qntmfred May 31 '11 at 9:07
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Hitting Shift+Esc brings up the Chrome task manager, and then you can double click on the title of whatever tab you need.

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oh yeah, i totally forgot about that. great out of the box solution too – qntmfred May 31 '11 at 0:00
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Mac OS X (with trackpad)

In the search bar write:

about:flags

and click enter. Now enable Tab Overview.

Tab Overview

A three-finger swipe will now reveal something like this:

More tabs

Here's 20 tabs for good measure:

20 tabs

It works really well. I can't browse without it these days.

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Do you know if there's any way to use this in Windows? – nhinkle♦ May 31 '11 at 7:44
@nhinkle: Not sure sorry. It'd be a shame if it didn't work in Windows. I've only tried in OS X. – boehj May 31 '11 at 9:01
@nhinkle There doesn't seem to be AFAIK – Ivo Flipse♦ May 31 '11 at 9:51
Looks useful, but sadly this doesn't work on Mountain Lion. groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/… – aimango Dec 23 '12 at 4:21
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Type about:flags into the address bar, and then enable Side Tabs:

Adds a "Use Side Tabs" entry to the tab strip's context menu. Use this to toggle between tabs on top (default) and tabs on the side. Useful on widescreen monitors.

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Install TabsOutliner extension -

The ultimate windows & tabs manager for Chrome:

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Not only it is show all the tabs and windows, it allow to add notes to them, freely reorganize everything, rescue all of this on Chrome crashes and give possibility to unload tabs without deleting them from tree - "in place" - very cool and handy, a lifesaver for me, and for any other tab addict.

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I've been using the Quick Tabs extension for a while, does a good job.

Quick Tabs

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