Manage groups

What are tab groups for?

With tab groups, you can easily organize your browser. You can create new groups, classify tabs, and move them between groups and windows to make working as convenient as possible.

— Window tabs. This is where you'll find the tabs that you haven't added to any groups.

— Active group.

— Scroll.

— All groups.

— Active group tabs.

— Create group.

Configure tab groups

To enable tab groups:

1. Click  → Settings → Interface.

2. In the Tabs and groups section, enable the Use tab groups option.

In the Tabs and groups section, you can also enable the following options:

• Open external links in the Home group instead of the active tab group. If the option is enabled, when you click links from external applications, for example, from Telegram, Yandex Messenger, or a text editor, the page opens in Window tabs. If the option is disabled, the page opens in the group that's currently active.

• Pin a group when it's created. If the option is enabled, when you create a group, it'll be pinned to the panel.

• Create new groups in the cloud. If the option is enabled, Yandex Browser syncs your new groups, and you can open them on all your devices.

To restore window tabs and pinned groups in every window after you restart Yandex Browser, enable the Restore tabs and groups at startup option in the settings.

Groups and windows

In Yandex Browser, you can open tab groups in any window. To do this, click the icon and select the group.

• So that the rightmost tab group doesn't overlap with the new group, pin it. Then the group opens next to it, not instead of it.

• You can also open a tab group in multiple windows at once. All the changes that you make to the group in one window (for example, delete or open some tabs) are reflected in the other window almost instantly.

• If you close the window, the tab groups are still available in the other window.

Actions with tab groups

• Create a group: In the upper-left corner of the browser, click and select Create tab group. Enter the name of the group. New tabs will open in it.

• Store a group in the cloud: Click to the right of the group. The group will be accessible from any of your devices that have Yandex Browser with syncing enabled.

• Remove a group from the cloud: Click to the right of the group and select Remove from cloud. The group will remain only on your current device and will be deleted from all other devices.

• Delete a group: Right-click a tab group and select Delete group. The group and the tabs will be deleted.

• Clear a group: Right-click a tab group and select Close group tabs. All tabs in the group will be closed, but the group itself will stay.

• Restore a recently closed group: Сlick  → History and select Group 4 tabs (where 4 is the number of tabs open in the group).

  Note

  Only the last 8 closed items (tabs, groups, or windows) can be restored.

• Move a tab: Right-click the tab and select Move tab. You can move it to another group, to a new group, to another window, or to a new window. You can also click a tab and drag it to another group or to another place in the current group.

• Move all group tabs: Right-click a tab group and select Move all tabs to.... You can move all tabs to another group, to a new group, to another window, or to a new window.

• Change the width of the group or tab block: Hover over the  separator between your groups and tabs and drag it to the right or left.

• View all groups: When all groups don't fit to the left of the separator, the  and  icons appear. Use them to scroll right or left to see all groups.

• Open a link in the necessary group: Right-click the link, select Open link in group..., and click the group you want.

• Pin a tab group to the panel: Right-click a tab group and select Pin to panel. You can pin groups that you want always visible. To unpin them, select Unpin from panel.

• Switch to a group by its number in the panel: Press Alt + Shift + 1–8 (on Windows and Linux) or ⌘ + ⌥ + 1–8 (on macOS).

• Switch to the last group in the panel: Press Alt + Shift + 9 (on Windows and Linux) or ⌘ + ⌥ + 9 (on macOS).

Share a group

Right-click the tab group and select Share group. The link to the group will be copied. You can send it by any method convenient for you, such as through a messenger.

If you received a link to a group, click it and agree to copy the group to Yandex Browser by selecting Add.

If you can't open tabs from a group, make sure you have tab groups enabled in Yandex Browser:

1. Click  → Settings → Interface.

2. In the Tabs and groups section, enable the Use tab groups option.

Disable tab groups

1. Click  → Settings → Interface.

2. In the Tabs and groups section, disable the Use tab groups option. The groups will be deleted, and all tabs will be restored outside of the groups.

Keyboard shortcuts for tab groups

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