How to Enable Tab Scrolling Buttons in Chrome on Windows PC

This post will show how to enable or disable tab scrolling buttons in Google Chrome on Windows 11/10. The Tab Scrolling buttons feature is available in the desktop version of the Chrome browser. It is specially designed for users who have to deal with many tabs at the same time. When you turn on this feature, you will see two new buttons in the tab strip that let you navigate back to the page or forward to other web pages.

So, for example, if you have opened multiple tabs on your Chrome browser, you can scroll the tab row and control one or all of them using the scrolling buttons.

This feature is by default hidden behind the runtime flag in the Chrome browser. You can enable this feature using the below suggestions, but it will only work if the Scrollable Tabstrip is active. Let us read and learn in the below section.

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You can enable or disable the Scrollable Tabstrip in Google Chrome using the following steps:

1. To get started, launch Google Chrome first.
2. In the address bar, type chrome://flags, and press enter.
3. Then go to the search box, type Scrollable TabStrip and you will see the related flag in the Experiments section.
4. Now click on the drop-down menu, next to the Scrollable Tabstrip, and select the Enabled option.
5. Click on the Relaunch button so that it will take effect the next time you open the browser.

In recent Chrome versions, you may see Tab scrolling instead.

Note: Alternatively, type the following text code in the Chrome address bar, and then press Enter to open the flag directly.

chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip

The next time when you launch the browser, you will see a small drop-down button next to the minimize button. Clicking on this button, you could access all the tabs that disappear after opening plenty of tabs.

You can also use the Ctrl+Shift+A keyboard shortcut to open the list of all opened and vanished tabs.

If you ever need to disable this feature, simply open the Scrollable TabStrip flag in the Chrome browser and switch it to Disabled. It will restore the classic tab row without the scrolling option. Click the Relaunch button to apply the changes you made.

Having done this, you can then Enable Tab Scrolling Buttons in Chrome as follows.

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To enable the tab scrolling button in Google Chrome, follow the below suggestions:

On your computer, open the Chrome browser first.

In the address bar, type the following text code and press the Enter key.

chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip

Now go to the Experiments section and make the Scrollable Tabstrip flag Enabled.

Then click on the Relaunch button to apply the changes.

After reopening the browser, search for the flag – Scrollable TabStrip Buttons.

Note: Alternatively, type the following text code in the Chrome address bar, and then press Enter to open the flag directly.

chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip-buttons

In the Experiments section, locate the respective flag and switch the Default button to Enabled.

Then click on the Relaunch button to apply the changes when you open the browser next time.

Once you enable the flag, you will see a scrollable TabStrip button next to the New tab button.

Using this feature, you can scroll through tabs by clicking the scrollable button.

Related: How to enable or disable Smooth Scrolling in Windows.