Today I have a New "Search Tabs" icon (hover over), on my Google Chrome Tab Bar?- I clicked on it, and it just Minimized my browser? There is nothing new in Extensions.
My AV did a clean scan, and their Forum was no help?
Google Search found nothing?
The icon is the little black circle, with a white down triangle-
It's a slow rollout from Google. Open some tabs, and click it again. You be able to scroll your tabs from it. i just got it this morning myself.
I did another Google search, and this is an experimental feature-
to Disable it, and remove icon- copy this to search bar, and Press Enter, click down arrow on box/Disable/Press Relaunch icon...
chrome://flags/#enable-tab-search
Open/close browser twice/done
Was also puzzled hence ending up on this forum! I have played with it and it appears pointless! My assumption was that it allows you to search within the tabs that you have open. I suppose that could be useful.
However, it doesn't do that; all that it does is allow you to search in the names of the tabs, which you can see anyway as they are open!
Unless I am missing something here then this is completely useless!
Tab search is a useful feature when you, like me, have many tabs in many windows, and you want to open a particular one. I have long used the tab search extension for this.
The latest update of Chrome for me includes this feature by default. So, having it built in to Chrome is useful, but unfortunately they have put it on the tab bar, and it takes up a lot of valuable real estate there. I would prefer if it were on the same bar as the url entry.
Anyone have any idea if that icon can be relocated? I thought not. So, in the meantime, I will stick with the extension and disable the feature.
I had this, and think it stinks when chrome slaps something on your browser without asking, I was able to get rid once but the pos icon is back like a dam disease, I Hate this icon showing up, its seems its never going go away Permanently, and keep coming back like a god dam disease...
Now I have to go thru postings once again to try n find how to remove it yet again!!
I followed this, but it did NOT work for me this time
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Nothing I've tried is removing this, dam you chrome, ...
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Here's the latest, Chrome team have purposely taken out / removed the way for Anyone to be able to remove that stupid ass search button that nobody Asked for, but slapped on on everyone's carom browser....
I have googled n googled looking for responses n ways, n more than once ppl have reported its now been removed , you cannot and will not be able to remove it, so lump or like it ..
And it wont be the first time they do this, so be prepared to start seeing more show up on chrome, without asking you, I've gone to a new browser. given up on chrome doing this...
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