Notes about Chrome Tabs. Ctrl, Shift and multiple tabs selection.

Messing with too many opened tabs in Chrome, I'm missing Firefox Tab Groups / Panorama. Just to bitch about Chrome I start shift-clicking tabs .. when they actually start to move together.  


It actually does what you'd expect:

• Maintain SHIFT, click on two tabs, they're now a selected tab interval.
• Maintain CTRL, click on many tabs, they're now a selected tab set.

The selection can be moved around in the tab bar, onto another window, or out to a new one. If you fiddle with a sparse tab set, the tabs will group together. It lacks a bit of user feedback, but beside that it does what you'd expect.

note: I run Chrome '20.0.1100.0 canary' on Windows XP.

Can't find any documentation about it, don't know if it's new or not.. but it's sure cute.


Edit: Tab Selection is really thought through. Operations allowed also include : 

• pinning
• closing* selection
• closing* all but selection

(*) close a group isn't directly undo-able, Ctrl-Shift-T will re-open one at a time. nothing too bad.


And it's actually one year old. 'multiple tabs selection' or 'multiselect tabs'. cf these :
http://exde601e.blogspot.fr/2011/03/multiple-tab-selection-in-google-chrome.html
http://lifehacker.com/5791787/select-multiple-chrome-tabs-by-domain-or-history
http://www.thechromesource.com/tag/multiselect-chrome-tabs/
http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome?view=rev&revision=78884

There's more: you can also select by domain or by opener.