How to Close Tabs to the Right in Chrome

Fifteen tabs open, and the ones after tab six are old research you're done with — but they're not next to each other in a way Ctrl+W can clear quickly. Chrome has a single click for exactly this: close everything positioned after one tab, in one move.

Close everything after a tab in one click

1. Right-click the tab immediately before the ones you want to close.
2. Choose Close tabs to the right from the context menu.
3. Every tab positioned after it in that window closes at once. The tab you right-clicked, and anything to its left, stays open untouched.

There's no keyboard shortcut for this — the context menu is the only native way in. If you'd rather not reach for the mouse, focus the tab with the keyboard and press Shift+F10 (or the dedicated Menu key, if your keyboard has one) to pop the same context menu, then select the option with arrow keys.

Why there's no "close tabs to the left"

Chrome's tab menu only offers a right-side version — there's no symmetrical "close tabs to the left" entry. If you need to clear everything before a tab instead of after it, the workaround is to right-click the tab you want to become the new leftmost one and choose Close other tabs, then reopen anything to the right you still needed with Ctrl+Shift+T. It's an extra step, but it gets to the same result.

What it doesn't touch

• Other windows. The action is scoped to the single window you right-clicked in — a second Chrome window, a different profile, or an Incognito session is unaffected.
• Pinned tabs. Pinned tabs live to the left of the tab strip by design, so "close tabs to the right" rarely threatens them — but if you've right-clicked a tab positioned before a pinned one in an unusual layout, double-check before confirming.
• Tab groups. If a group spans the closing point, only the tabs actually to the right close — the group itself isn't deleted, just thinned out.

If you're not sure what's in those tabs

The risk with "close tabs to the right" isn't the click — it's not remembering what was actually open before you made it. If some of those tabs were worth keeping:

• Undo fast: Ctrl+Shift+T (Cmd+Shift+T on Mac) reopens closed tabs one at a time, most recent first, for a short while after closing.
• Check before you click: hover each tab first if you're not sure what's there — see our guide on the tab hover preview for what that card actually shows.

When "which tabs were those again?" happens every week

If closing a batch of tabs to the right is a habit — end of research, end of a shopping comparison, end of a work sprint — the problem isn't the close, it's that nothing captured what was worth keeping before the click. Amazing Tabs fixes that:

• Save the whole window in one click before you start closing anything, no folder-naming required.
• Press ⌘K (or Ctrl+K) to instantly find any saved tab by title or URL, long after Chrome's own recently-closed list has aged out.
• Free for up to 100 saved links, with optional cross-device sync on paid plans.

Close what you're done with, keep what you're not. Add Amazing Tabs to Chrome — free, no signup required.

Quick recap

• Right-click a tab → "Close tabs to the right" closes every tab after it in that window in one click.
• There's no keyboard shortcut and no "close tabs to the left" option — only Shift+F10 to reach the same menu, and "Close other tabs" as the left-side workaround.
• Ctrl+Shift+T reopens closed tabs if you change your mind, most-recent first.
• To keep just one tab and close everything else, see How to Close All Tabs Except One in Chrome.