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Remove the new ‘Tab groups’ button
Google made lots of tweaks to Chrome in 2024, some of which were more useful than others. One of the most noticeable was the addition of a ‘Tab groups’ button to the browser’s Bookmarks bar. This looks like a grid of four squares and appears to the left of your bookmarks ( 1 in screenshot below).
While this button will come in handy if you use Chrome’s ‘Tab groups’ feature to organise your tabs into themed groups, it’s otherwise likely to prove annoying.
Thankfully, you can remove the ‘Tab groups’ button if you don’t need it. Rather than right-click the button and choose Hide or Delete (which would be the obvious solution), you have to right-click elsewhere on the Bookmarks bar and deselect the ‘Show tab groups’ option 2 . The button will then disappear.
To disable the ‘Tab groups’ button permanently, type chrome://flags into Chrome’s address bar and press Enter to load the Experiments page. Find the entry Tab Groups Save UI Update 3 , choose Disabled in its dropdown menu 4 and relaunch Chrome.