Master the Chrome Tabs: Pin, Reopen, & Mute

When using Google Chrome, it can be very easy to end up with 347 tabs open at once! Luckily, Chrome has a few really cool features that can help you manage those tabs with ease!

1. Pinning

  • Pin the tabs that you need open all day! Attendance, email, curriculum...whatever you need open all day, pin them! Pinning will make the tab stick to the far left, reduce the size of the tab (more space for more tabs), and remove the X. You must unpin a tab to close it. No more accidental closures!

2. Reopening

  • Fortunately, if you do accidentally close a tab that isn’t pinned, HAVE NO FEAR. CTRL + SHIFT +T will open recently closed tabs!

3. Muting

  • Often times, one of the websites you have open will autoplay a video or advertisement with sound. With a ton of tabs open, finding the one where the sound is coming from can be frustrating. Look along your tabs for the volume icon. Need to turn off the sound quickly? Just mute the tab! Right Click → Mute!