How to Duplicate a Tab Group in Chrome

You've built a tab group worth keeping around — a research set, a client's open tickets, a trip's worth of booking sites — and now you want a second, independent copy to branch off from without disturbing the original. Chrome doesn't have a "Duplicate group" button anywhere in its tab group menu. Here's the manual path that gets you there anyway.

Why there's no one-click option

Right-click a tab group's label and the menu that appears is short: New tab in group, Ungroup, Move group to new window, Close group, and (if you're signed in and sync is on) Send group to your devices. Every one of those acts on the existing group — none of them create an independent second copy. Chrome treats a group as a container for the tabs already in your window, not as a template you can stamp out again.

The manual way: duplicate the tabs, then re-group them

This takes three steps and produces a genuinely independent group — same tabs, same name, same color, none of it tied to the original.

1. Expand the group by clicking its label, if it's collapsed, so every tab inside it is visible on the strip.

2. Duplicate every tab in the group. Right-click the first tab and choose Duplicate — Chrome opens an exact-URL copy right next to it. Repeat for each tab in the group. (Some Chrome versions let you select the whole run of tabs at once — click the first one, then Shift+click the last — and duplicate them together from a single right-click; if your version doesn't offer that, one at a time works the same, it's just a few extra clicks.)

3. Select the new copies and add them to a new group. The duplicates land as plain, ungrouped tabs — Chrome doesn't fold them into a group automatically. Click the first duplicate, Shift+click the last, right-click any of them, and choose Add tabs to new group. Name it and pick a color to match the original if you want them to look related.

That's it — you now have two fully independent groups with the same starting tabs. Edit, close, or ungroup either one and the other is untouched.

The mistake to avoid: "Move group to new window"

It's easy to reach for Move group to new window expecting a copy, since it does put the group somewhere new. It doesn't duplicate anything — it relocates the original group into its own window, and your first window is left with no group at all. Use it when you actually want the group to live in a separate window going forward, not when you want a second copy left in place alongside the first — see How to Move a Tab Group to a New Window in Chrome for that command in full.

What doesn't carry over

The duplicated tabs are fresh page loads at the same URLs, same as duplicating any single tab — they don't clone scroll position or unsaved form input, and they share your existing login session rather than forking it. If you need a truly isolated second session (different account, different cookies) rather than just a second set of tabs, that needs a second Chrome profile or an Incognito window, not a duplicated group.

When a duplicate is overkill

Duplicating makes sense when you're about to actively diverge — try a different filter, compare two approaches, hand a copy to a teammate to edit separately. If you just want the group preserved somewhere safe without keeping two live copies open and eating memory, Chrome's own "Save group" (right-click the label) keeps it in a saved-groups shelf you can reopen later without ever having duplicated it in the first place.

Amazing Tabs covers the case in between — when you want the group's tabs kept somewhere durable and searchable, not just duplicated into more open tabs:

• Save a whole window or group in one click, so a "just in case I need it again" copy doesn't have to live in your tab strip.
• Search by title, URL, or content with ⌘K / Ctrl+K instead of scanning two similarly named groups to tell them apart.
• Cross-device sync keeps the saved set available without duplicating it into every window you open.
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Quick recap

• Chrome has no native "Duplicate group" button — the group menu only offers Rename, Ungroup, Move to new window, Close group, and Send to your devices.
• "Move group to new window" relocates, it doesn't copy — the original window loses the group entirely.
• The manual duplicate: expand the group, duplicate every tab in it, then select the copies and "Add tabs to new group" to re-group them.
• Duplicated tabs share your login session, same as any duplicated tab — not a second, isolated account.
• If you just want a backup, not a live second copy, Chrome's own "Save group" is lighter than duplicating.

Further reading: How to Use Tab Groups in Chrome for creating, naming, and saving groups from scratch, or How to Duplicate a Tab in Chrome for what duplicating a single tab does and doesn't carry over.

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