Google has added a function to Google Chrome which may make you surprise why it wasn’t there already: the power to go looking historical past, tabs, and bookmarks instantly from the Google deal with bar.

As you in all probability know, you possibly can open up, say, the Google History (CTRL-H) operate inside Chrome and seek for pages that you simply’ve opened beforehand. Ditto for Google Bookmarks. Now, all it’s essential to do is to easily kind in @bookmarks, @tabs, or @historical past into the Google deal with bar to go looking these capabilities.

When you do, you’ll see the Google deal with bar mirror your alternative, with a blue textual indicator that you simply’re looking by your shopping historical past, for instance.

Searching in your out there tabs is a bit much less helpful, as Chrome will robotically supply to take you to a tab if it detects it’s already open. For instance, you can kind in “@tabs” after which “PCWorld laptop reviews” for instance. But when you’ve got a tab open exhibiting PCWorld’s laptop computer opinions web page, you’ll see a “Switch to this tab” button in the event you merely kind that within the deal with bar as a substitute. (Microsoft Edge additionally makes use of this identical “Switch to this tab” motif.)

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Personally, having the ability to search open tabs is a godsend, as I all the time have a number of tabs (as in, about 50 or so) at anybody time. I additionally are likely to open a number of home windows with teams of tabs, shut them in an effort to scrub up my desktop, after which overlook that I closed one thing I wanted. A fast search of the browser historical past ought to clear up that.

As all the time, just be sure you have your browser up to date to entry these new Google Chrome options. This function was solely enabled after I up to date Chrome to model 108.0.5359.95.