Google recently rolled out tab groups to Chrome on Android, and the next step is to make switching tabs more fluent and mobile-first. The beginning of that change is already available in some dev builds of Chrome, if you're willing to put in some work.
The new design for Chrome has Google's Duet bar moved to the bottom of the screen, instead of at the top. This puts your controls at your fingertips, instead of forcing you to reach when you need to change tabs or anything.
Going past that, newer builds of Chrome use TabStrip, which shows your currently open tabs in a long stripe with favicons. If you're running a dev or canary build, though, you can merge the two features into a much more compact design. By enabling that integration, you simply long-press on the tabs buttons, and you'll have a floating strip of favicons showing your currently open tab. Don't even need to leave your browser page, and you can easily see everything you have open for multitasking.
Well, except for one small problem. All of the icons are identical, so if you have multiple tabs open from the same site, it might get a little confusing remembering which is which. Could be a problem for things like Amazon where you might be price comparing, but you can still do a single press to get a full visual view of all your open tabs.
That's probably something that Google plans to polish up, though. This is only available in early builds, after all. Fingers crossed.
source: 9to5Google
