Windows 10: Enable or Disable Tab Hover Cards and Card Images in Google Chrome

How to: Enable or Disable Tab Hover Cards and Card Images in Google Chrome

How to Enable or Disable Tab Hover Cards and Tab Hover Card Images in Google Chrome


Starting in Google Chrome 78, tooltips for tabs has been replaced by Tab Hover Cards. Tab Hover Cards enables a popup containing tab information to be visible when hovering over a tab.

If you enable Tab Hover Card Images, a preview image of the page opened in the tab shows in Tab Hover Cards, if tab hover cards are enabled. The current tab will not show a preview image in Tab Hover Cards since it is already showing in the browser window.

If you disable Tab Hover Cards, you will see the classic tooltips for tabs instead, and Tab Hover Card Images will no longer show even if enabled.

This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable Tab Hover Cards and Tab Hover Card Images in Google Chrome for your account in Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 10.


Contents

• Option One: Enable or Disable Tab Hover Cards in Google Chrome
• Option Two: Enable or Disable Tab Hover Card Images in Google Chrome

EXAMPLE: "Tab Hover Cards" enabled and disabled, and "Tab Hover Card Images" enabled














OPTION ONE [/i] Enable or Disable Tab Hover Cards in Google Chrome
1 Open Google Chrome.

2 Copy and paste the link below into the address bar of Chrome, and press Enter.
chrome://flags/#tab-hover-cards
3 Select Default (same as enabled), Enabled, Enabled B, Enabled C, or Disabled for the Tab Hover Cards setting you want. (see screenshot below)

Comparing the time it takes for the card to appear after hovering the pointer over the tab with Enabled, Enabled B, or Enabled C set. Tab Hover Card Images is also enabled in this example.






4 Click/tap on the Relaunch Now button at the bottom to apply.









OPTION TWO [/i] Enable or Disable Tab Hover Card Images in Google Chrome
Tab Hover Card Images requires Tab Hover Cards to be enabled in Option One.


1 Open Google Chrome.

2 Copy and paste the link below into the address bar of Chrome, and press Enter.
chrome://flags/#tab-hover-card-images
3 Select Default (same as disabled), Enabled, or Disabled for the Tab Hover Card Images setting you want. (see screenshot below)

4 Click/tap on the Relaunch Now button at the bottom to apply.





That's it,
Shawn

:)

 

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Hi jteko

Actually, thank you for asking this question, this has also been really annoying me . . .

Open Chrome

In the address bar, paste this and hit Enter:

chrome://flags/#tab-hover-cards

Disable the option that is found

Then, paste this into the address bar and hit Enter:

chrome://flags/#tab-hover-card-images

Disable the option that is found

That's It, click the 'Relaunch' button . . .

 

chrome replicates the tab up top when you put your cursor on it. what for?

I found this: Don't like Chrome's Tab Hover Cards feature? Here is how to disable it. but i can't find the page or where to disable the hover tab. is
it now in settings. your image just says image. Thanks

 

chrome replicates the tab up top when you put your cursor on it. what for?

Hi Paula,

I am Sumit, an Independent Advisor and a 2-Year Windows Insider MVP here to help.

Please see my attached Image-is it what you want to disable?

If so, open this link:

chrome://flags/#tab-hover-cards

Choose the value to disabled.

This is a new feature called Tab hover card with Chrome 78.

Let us know how hat goes.