Tip: Chrome Beta Now Has Easy Way To Close All Tabs By Long-Pressing The Tab Close Button

Have you ever let the number of tabs in Google Chrome get out of hand? A nifty trick has popped up in Chrome Beta’s tablet interface, now making it simple to deal with a large amount of tabs. Simply press and hold on the “X” you would normally use to close a single tab, and you will be prompted with a small dialogue that says “Close all tabs.” Hit that and you have a clean slate.

I know that I tend to get overloaded with tabs from clicking on search results and in-app links, so this is a welcome addition for me. The function is not present on the stable builds of Chrome. Also, there does not seem to be a way to replicate this on the phone interface, since tabs aren’t presented in this browser-esque way on small screens. Those lucky few of you with tablets running Lollipop will have to let us know whether there is a way to do this with the new way tabs are handled in Android 5.0. This works the same way on tablets running Lollipop.

You don’t need an update for this feature, as the most recent update was posted on December 8 and should have reached all end users by now. The update to Chrome Beta version 40.0 included a new-look address bar and bookmarks manager as well.

Thanks Ramit Suri