

Here, click the search box at the top and type “Enable Tab Search” (without quotes).

You’re now in Chrome’s flags menu, which hosts all of Chrome’s experimental features. Type the following text into the address bar at the top of the browser window and hit “Enter”: chrome://flags To do this, open Chrome on your computer. This works for Chrome on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome OS. To add or remove the down-arrow icon from the tab search feature, you must enable or disable it from Chrome’s flags page. This means it isn’t possible to hide this icon unless Google adds an option to do so in the future. As of June 2021, the below flag no longer exists.

Update: This feature is now enabled by default for all Chrome browsers. As of April 2021, it’s enabled by default for some people, but not others. Google Chrome has a tab search feature that looks like a small down-arrow icon in the top-right corner of the browser window.
