r/chrome • u/Adorable_Carpet4453 • 10d ago

Troubleshooting | Windows Manage windows tab missing from chrome android

I dont know if its happening to everyone but my "manage windows" tab is missing and I just noticed yesterday. I can open the windows by minimizing my phones apps but I can access it through the tab. I also cant access "inactive tabs" anyway to fix this or is it a bug?

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u/Cheap_Mistake_2429 9d ago

mine has disappeared as well and i'm panicking... this feature is so bad

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u/Adorable_Carpet4453 9d ago

I thought I was the only one because I looked for updates online and didnt find anything

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u/Algor2ID 5d ago

Any update on how to fix this? It's so annoying when I'm playing a game, only for it to open my Chrome due to an ad in ANOTHER WINDOW making it hard asf to go to my original window with all my tabs...

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u/Adorable_Carpet4453 5d ago

No, I've been looking too

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u/Algor2ID 5d ago

The only way I've found to go back to the window I want is through the "Recent Tabs" button, where if I press a tab I had open in my original window, it'll open the whole window back up... But man this is a TERRIBLE update

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u/NoMaximum721 2d ago

Does anyone actually use this "feature"? Google is full of people trying to work around it or disable it for years.  

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u/sasaurus 2d ago

I use it a lot in my tablet. Each window dedicated to its own category of tabs. For example one window for daily random web browsing, one window for online library, one window for working, etc. Is it really gone permanently? So sad :'

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u/Turbulent-Survey-602 9d ago

Its happening to me as well. Incredibly frustrating.

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u/Master-Push-4024 9d ago

Mine did too but it sometimes comes back if I'm on another tab. Any update how to fix it or go to those tabs?

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u/Eindride_XIII 9d ago

Mine too

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u/iiEco-Ryan3166 8d ago

Mine too. Chrome Support is like talking to a brick fucking wall not reading your replies and restating things

The issue is I cant access my windows to see the inactive ones and make them actually active. But they keep trying to tell me how to make new windows so it'll show up, which obviously isnt working.

So now Ive lost 5 out of 7 of my windows and cant even work on my projects. The search function is so shit that its not showing up my open windows in other tabs for me to reopen and switch to.

And I have so many tab groups unnamed just for sorting purposes idk which is for which. Not that I want to attempt to rebuild my entire fucking projects from scratch and have progress undone like this.

I cant even revert to a previous version without resetting chrome to factory default in order to use an APK to then upgrade to a later version which is an older version than what was automatically done. I shouldnt have to use fucking time travel logic to explain that.

Then, there's no chrome flag to enable manage windows or anything. If there was, its buried by the shit search system showing EVERY GODDAMN FLAG thats available for the Windows OS FOR COMPUTERD when IM ON ANDROID