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Problem

I often find that one of the tabs in my Chrome window needs to be moved to another monitor, so I can view it alongside a tab in the current window.

The act of actually moving a window between monitors is not the issue; my OS has hotkeys for that.

Question

Is there a way to separate a tab from its window into its own, using only the keyboard? I can, of course, drag the tab out using the mouse, but as you might have guessed, I try to do as much as possible with the keyboard only, for productivity reasons.

I have of course read Google's support page for chrome, but it only lists it as the mouse-drag operation.

Additional info

While I hope the answer would be OS-neutral, I would gladly accept a Debian-only answer. (Jessie, by the way.)

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    A quick look on the Ubuntu SE has a couple of extensions for Chrome: askubuntu.com/questions/624153/…
    – Kinnectus
    Nov 2, 2015 at 9:14
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    @BigChris - Thanks! Works like a charm! That also answers a question I didn't ask; "what's the damn word I'm looking for?!" It was "detach".
    – Alec
    Nov 2, 2015 at 9:25

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If you're interested in using Chrome extensions then an answer at AskUbuntu (SE) has a couple of suggestions:

  1. Tab To Window extension
  2. Tab Manager extension

Source URL: https://askubuntu.com/questions/624153/how-can-i-detach-a-tab-from-my-main-chrome-window-into-a-new-window

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