# Too many tabs open in Chrome? What to do

Last reviewed: 1 November 2026

Find and close what you don’t need, let Chrome sleep the rest, and group what you want to keep. Chrome’s own tools cover all three.

![The Tidy up panel in TabOverview, offering to close 2 duplicate tabs, sort sites side by side and put 22 background tabs to sleep.](https://taboverview.com/assets/img/shots/tidy-v1.jpg)

## What to do in Chrome

- **Find tabs quickly.** Press Ctrl + Shift + A on Windows or Linux, or ⌘ + Shift + A on a Mac, to search your tabs.

- **Free up memory.** Open Settings, choose Performance, and turn on Memory Saver. Chrome deactivates tabs you aren’t using and reloads them when you go back.

- **Group what belongs together.** Right-click a tab, choose Add tab to group, then New group. Select the group’s name to collapse it.

- **Reopen a mistake.** Press Ctrl + Shift + T, or ⌘ + Shift + T on a Mac, to bring back the last tab you closed.

## When tabs get too small to read

With dozens of tabs open, the tab strip shows little more than icons. TabOverview shows every tab in one grid, with a picture of each page if you turn on previews. Its Tidy up button suggests duplicates, week-old tabs and background tabs that can sleep. It suggests and you decide, and every close has Undo for 30 seconds.

TabOverview is a free extension for Google Chrome on a computer, coming soon to the Chrome Web Store. It needs no registration and sends nothing to a server.

## Sources

- [Use tabs in Chrome, Google Chrome Help](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/2391819?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop)

- [Chrome keyboard shortcuts, Google Chrome Help](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/157179?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop)

- [Memory Saver, Google Chrome Help](https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/12929150?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop)

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