Closing tabs in Chrome is getting much better on Android

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In a futurity release of Google's spider web browser on Android, you'll be able to avoid the error of closing all your tabs at in one case, thanks to an additional bulletin box to confirm if you desire to become ahead with it.

Google Chrome is the well-nigh widely-used web browser app on Android, mainly due to it existence pre-installed on the bulk of Android smartphones. But at that place may be an occasion when you've got multiple tabs open at once.

Some could be related to shopping, birthday ideas, or brainstorms for holidays in the summertime for example. You lot may want to close all of these at once when you're finished.

In Chrome Canary, the exam version of Google's web browser, you lot can enable a flag that volition brandish a bulletin box to confirm if you lot desire to close all your tabs at once. This will help foreclose occasions where yous accidently shut all the browser tabs when you didn't mean to.

How exercise you lot enable the bulletin box confirmation?

By going to chrome://flags when running Google Chrome Canary 100 on Android, in that location volition exist a 'Close all tabs modal dialog' selection.

Switching this on volition make the message box appear when you're about to shut all your tabs.

This tin can be useful if yous've establish yourself having mistakenly closed all your open tabs, and having to go through your history to open up the links once more.

This may sound like a very obvious feature, merely if you lot mainly apply Google Chrome on your phone as you're sharing links on social media and messaging apps, having all your tabs closed can be a huge annoyance.

Sometimes the little things like this tin make a big difference, so it's encouraging that Google has this ready to go in its evolution releases for now.

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