Implement Google Chrome-like grouped tabs

[dutzi]

Google Chrome Beta recently announced grouped tabs, which is pretty awesome.

Here's the gist:

Having such a thing within VSCode will be very useful IMO.

Having it integrated with the search, where a group is automatically created once you open more than one search result, should help with the tab clutter it ensues. Same for Peek references, automatic grouping of files within the same folders... I see many possibilities for it.

[yoav-lavi]

Seems very useful, I suggest allowing to group it by project / workspace as well, which would be really useful when working in linked projects (library project / host, monorepo projects, etc.)

[or313]

Sounds really good! great suggestion

[lucastrvsn]

I was needing this right now!

Great suggestion

[aayushmau5]

There you go. Your 20 upvotes. This is a good feature request.

[kh]

I'd love to see something like that and the ability to collapse a group of tabs. I often have a bunch of config files or templates that I need to keep open so that I don't have to look for them when I need them, but this eats up a lot of tab space.

[jonas-k]

Since #38889 was merged into this issue, I want to point out an important aspect of #38889 that is not covered here so far:

38889 was about automatic tab groups that were created using the file and folder structure.

The original feature request of #38889 was only about automatically grouping files in the same folder.

I think automatically grouping files by folder and file name could also be a useful option. For example opening a file with the same name but a different extension as an already opened file in the same folder would be grouped automatically.

[Cl3r1k]

It will be very valuable feature for me, and I hope for others too.

Great suggestion!

[astahmer]

+1 I'm constantly using it on chrome, would definitely of much use on VSCode as well

[kh]

Something like two-Level tab stacks like in vivaldi would be very useful too.

[Zensynthium]

Can't wait to see this implemented, very excited! Thank you to everyone who suggested this and is working on it!

[juanobrach]

OMG yes please! I can purchase something like that.

[rjborba]

Would be very helpful!

[ryankavalsky-ssa]

Yes, I'd like this feature too. It could help manage my opened code files into active projects, so I can keep better track of what I'm working on for any given initiative.

[Alonski]

Adding another 👍 to this please :)

[vinayak-gadkari]

One more 👍

[davefreeman]

I'd love to see this - It would be very handy

[kumarshantanu]

+1 to this feature, for context-switching between sub-projects. For example, I'd like to easily switch between groups of Terraform modules that work together.

[jzamora5]

Would certainly love this, sometimes keeping track of many tabs is hard

[joeflack4]

+1 I'm surprised it took so many years to add this to browsers. This is such a helpful feature. Really need this. Right now I'm using sublime text as my way to have another 'group'. And that's just ghetto.

[mvahanen]

+1

[hdsysdev]

Would be an amazing feature for working with Angular where you are working with groups of multiple related files

[aderchox]

I don't like the Google Chrome style, please also allow grouping tabs in dropdowns(but yet the mouse scroll must be able to navigate through all of them).

[fbadanouy]

We need this +1

[HunterMeyer]

Would love to have this.

[SSA-DCBFM-WEB]

FWIW, I've found a straightforward way to have 2 groups. If you drag a tab down until it snaps to the bottom pane, that pane becomes a new group. You can then add whatever files you want to that new group.

I've re-sized that bottom pane to come all the way up to the top pane, so I now effectively have 2 groups of code. When I click on Group 1, Group 2 automatically minimizes to the bottom, and when I click on Group 2, Group 2 automatically fills the space again.

I can apparently repeat this an unlimited number of times for an unlimited number of groups, obviously depending on your screen height.

The only downside I see if that the groups cannot be named. Good enough while we wait for a solution from MS, though! I hope this helps somebody.

[Frontier789]

I would love to see this happening, it would help a great deal with tab clutter.

[orsolyalukacs]

This would be a great feature to organize tabs in VSCode!

[lmberard]

Yes pleaseeee!!! +1

[nikzeyn]

It'd be a great feature. At least, it would be awesome to have named groups which can be hidden when not needed. VSCode's existing Editor Groups feature works well for me except I cannot hide/collapse them.

[bergergit]

Would be VERY useful - including Angular projects where there are usually 4 or 5 files associated to each module. Then, each module would be a group. :)

[RokeJulianLockhart]

Would be great if all of these different applications used a shared tab library, eh?

[memeplex]

Although this is a good feature to have, I mostly see it as derived from two VSCode shortcomings:

1. The inability to open multiple windows (as views, not duplicates) for the same project/workspace.
2. The inability to hide editor groups.

Fixing any of these two shortcomings, would be a more general solution than a new tab grouping feature.

[AngDrew]

i really need one.. my work space is messy.. i need something to organize it like this https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=usama8800.tab-groups but this extension is a bit buggy.. at some point it just keep reopening my current branch's tab groups but the feature works well

[warmhug]

It's been two years, is this feature still scheduled for development?

[NebraskaCoder]

I just came to create an issue on this idea (luckily, I searched first). I really could use this in my day-to-day stuff as a programmer with four or five projects open in my solution window.

[lazercaveman]

Anybody knows when this is planned to be implemented? This threat is two years old now :S

[rotobogdan]

[CTRL + K O] is not enough. I can't wait this feature.

[wongk]

+1

[AndrewLosikhin]

+1

[hawtim]

ok, pls, this feature could be very useful in a project with module federation.

[victorlunam]

This feature would help a lot.

To have the possibility to group some open files, to work temporarily on other files but not to have to close them for more space and mental clarity.

Looking forward to it.

[AHHusam]

pewty pweeeeeze 🥹

[riclucio]

+1 looking forward to it too.

[conorriches]

This would be brilliant, I work with lots of web components and each component has multiple files (HTML, CSS, Ruby/Js/Whatever) so being able to group these together visually, ideally with the option of setting a colour would be extremely useful in staying organised.

At the moment I just close tabs but this adds a lot of faff when doing rapid context switching.

[lazercaveman]

As far as I can see, this thread is about 2,5 years old, and doesn't include any response other than "we may add it to our backlog" (where it can't be found today). Is it possibly possible to get some more information about the status of this feature request???

Alternatively does anybody know an extension which does something similar?

[kh]

As far as I can see, this thread is about 2,5 years old, and doesn't include any response other than "we may add it to our backlog" (where it can't be found today). Is it possibly possible to get some more information about the status of this feature request???

Alternatively does anybody know an extension which does something similar?

Yes I really need this feature in some way or another, my productivity would increase a lot, because when I'm working on a lot of files I'm hunting for the right one and it's time wasted...

Unfortunately I don't think there is any extension because Vscode won't allow extensions to change the user interface, so we're stuck...

[fedser]

For me for now I use "Favourites" plugin and replacements for such feature (for example, could try this: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=FredJeck.fav). I put Favourites window on "Secondary Side Bar" in VS Code and group files as I want.

[stromal]

@vscode-triage-bot any updates?

[devmanbr]

looking forward to it

[AllanOricil]

What if vscode implements Layers as well? I think it is better than grouping tabs like chrome does when talking about productivity. https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/174922

but vscode could offer both...