Split View Tabs in Chrome are a game-changer — I can’t believe I wasn’t using this before

You’ll wonder how you browsed without them

19 Dec 2025, 21:00 · TechRadar

How Tos By Graham Barlow published 19 December 2025

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If you’re anything like me, your Google Chrome browser currently has more tabs open than a small startup’s entire IT department.

You know things have gotten bad when you’ve got so many tabs squeezed into the toolbar that the page icons have turned into tiny, unrecognizable pixelated blobs. Still, overusing tabs is a hard habit to break.

What’s even worse is trying to switch between tabs when you need to compare information across two different pages. That usually turns into a slow, frustrating process of hunting down the exact tab you need among the dozens you’ve got open, then remembering where it was when you want to switch back.

Sure, you can open tabs in a new window and toggle between them using a keyboard shortcut, but that’s a clunky workaround at best.

How to use Split View Tabs

You may not realize it, but there’s now a much neater way to solve this problem, thanks to a November update to Google Chrome. Chrome has quietly added Split View tabs, a feature that lets you look at two open tabs side by side in the same browser window, with each tab occupying half the screen.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because it works a lot like Split View on devices like the iPad, where two apps can share the screen at once.

To use Split View in Chrome, simply right-click on an open tab in your toolbar. In the menu that appears, you’ll see a new option called Split View with Current Tab.

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