Even though Microsoft and Google are competitors  in the tech industry, but recently, the Microsoft launched a Chromium version of its Edge Browser. This will benefit Google  in the form of multi tab management.

Right now in Chrome, if you wanted to bring multiple tabs to a new window, you’d have to drag it one by one. However, it seems that in the Chromium version of Edge, users can drag multiple tabs into a new window, and it looks like Microsoft is going to help Google achieve the same thing with Chrome.

In a note, Google software engineer Leonard Grey and Microsoft software engineer Justin Gallagher discussed bringing the feature over to Chrome, and it looks like it’s going to happen.  Those changes have yet to be implemented but if you’re a Chrome Canary user, there is a chance it could pop up in the build in the near future.

While not exactly a groundbreaking feature, it’s one of those quality of life improvements that should make the overall use of the browser better.

Microsoft has lunched it on  both macOS and Windows. The launch marked just over a year after the company announce its plans to work more closely with the Chromium project and Google engineers. 

It’s a feature that already exists in Edge, and now Microsoft is helping bring it directly to Chromium  and Chrome.

Microsoft committed code to make the change in Chromium, adding support for moving multiple tabs to a new window from the tab context menu. It’s the first clear user-facing change that we’ve seen Microsoft make to Chromium, and the company has made more than 1,000 commits over the previous year. Microsoft will slowly push this new version of Edge to Windows 10 users via Windows Update. This rollout will happen in gradual stages until a full, wider release happens in the summer.