What you need to know
- A new experimental Chromium feature for “Android Bulk Restore” has been discovered.
- It would let you reopen Chrome tabs from Recently Closed at once.
- You currently need to restore each tab individually.
Google on Wednesday launched a new experimental Chromium flag called Android Bulk Restore. This would allow you to reopen a tab group or series of individual tabs that you have previously closed.
Chrome Story first discovered this feature on a Chromium Gerrit page. In the description file, you will find “Enables bulk tab restoration recovery (eg close all tabs, close a group, etc.) from Recent tabs> Recently closed.”
Currently, you can use Chrome tabs to store and organize a large number of links. But if you accidentally close one on your mobile, you have no option for mass reopening as you do with the Chrome browser. You have to reopen the links one by one, which can be extremely frustrating depending on the number.
With this new experimental Chrome flag, you should be able to reopen a tab group immediately, or multiple tabs, if you closed them at the same time. Once Google has finished testing the feature and bringing it to Chrome for Android, it should save tab-hoarders lots of time.
If you’d like to access this tool sooner rather than later, you’d like to download Chrome Canary, where Google developers push and test the latest tools before sending them to the stable browser.
Another page with “actions” shows that this option also appears when a user opens “History from recent tabs on iOS”, which means that it is a mobile feature that is not specific to the best Android phones.
Google is testing another Chrome flag that lets you save a tab group – though only on your desktop for now. This would also make it easier to save and reopen your favorite links if you can not find the tab group in your recently closed data.