Feature
Sync Chrome tab groups between profiles and computers
Create a tab group in one profile and it appears in the others — collapsed and unloaded, so a 40-tab group costs no memory until you open it.
Tab groups are per profile
Chrome's saved tab groups live inside the profile that created them. Open the same browser under a different profile and the group is gone — not hidden, not collapsed, simply absent. For anyone who researches in one profile and writes in another, that is a daily friction.
What Braid Sync does with a group
- Named groups travel. A group you create and name in one profile is recreated in the other participating profiles with the same name and colour.
- Arrivals are collapsed and unloaded. Incoming groups do not open tabs or consume memory until you expand them, so a forty-tab group is free to receive.
- Tab additions and removals merge. Add a tab in one profile, it shows up in the group elsewhere; close one and remove it from the group and it goes away everywhere.
- You choose the groups. Ad-hoc grouping in your personal profile stays local unless you nominate the group.
Where it fits in a working day
The pattern that comes up most is a research group built in a personal or general profile and needed in a client profile where the logins live. Rather than copying URLs across, you nominate the group once and it is present on both sides, ready to expand.
Cross-machine works the same way: the same profile on a second computer receives the group. That behaviour is covered on the cross-device sync page.
Limitations worth knowing
- Unnamed, throwaway groups are not synced — grouping is nominated deliberately.
- Tab scroll position, form state and session cookies are never carried across; a synced tab is a URL and a title.
- Edge supports tab groups too, and the same rules apply there.
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Keep reading
Sync tab groups between profiles
Chrome saves tab groups per profile. This guide covers what Chrome's saved groups do, where they stop, and how to carry a group into another profile or machine.
Cross-profile sync
Native sync stops at the account boundary. Braid Sync shares selected bookmarks and tab groups between separate browser profiles on the same machine and beyond.
Cross-device sync
Sync the same selected bookmarks and tab groups to matching profiles on a second laptop or desktop, without merging work and personal browsing.
How it works
A plain explanation of the sync model: what each profile sends, how the merge resolves conflicts, how deletions propagate and when syncing runs.