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Rafa
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September 3, 2026

"This or that?" (Chrome Edition)

  • September 4, 2026 at 10:30 AM
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Hi folks, 

It’s time to settle the debate ⚖️ 

It’d be nice to gauge where this community stands on some of the most important (🤔) daily Chrome browser preferences and work-related debates.

Reply below with your answers:

  1. Dark Mode or Light Mode?
  2. Multi-screens or Split View?
  3. Group tabs or pin tabs?
  4. Inbox Zero or 10,000 Emails sitting there (some of them starred though)?
  5. Coffee or Tea?
  6. Milk in your coffee or tea or No milk?
  7. Music while working or Absolute silence?
  8. Regular desk or Standing desk?
     

Let's see which side wins!

    26 replies

    beneustace
    Google Team
    September 4, 2026

     

    1. Light Mode?
    2. Multi-screens
    3. Group tabs or pin tabs - neither just chaos
    4. 10,000 Emails 
    5. Coffee 
    6. Milk 
    7. Absolute silence
    8. Regular desk 
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    Yann_ROLAND
    Level 2.2: Froyo
    September 4, 2026

    For me the answers are not the same if you are on the smartphone, a tablet, a smartphone + external monitor, tablet + external monitor but I'll try to answer

    1 - dark by default but unfortunetly some buttons sometime appears only in light mode (please developers, think of the dark mode ;))

    2 -  multi window (ultra wide screen using android desktop) and also on Android XR. Tip: drag and drop a chrome tab to an empty space of the screen to create a new window, really usefull. Info, the limit of 5 windows is too low, i often pass this limit.

    3 - pin tab for all day apps.  having an easy mean to close all open tabs would be great (maybe it existe but I didn't find it) On my phone I often reach the 99 tabs because old ones stays opened.

    For the others it is too personal 😉

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    Rafa
    RafaCommunity ManagerAuthor
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    September 7, 2026

    Thanks for sharing it ​@Yann_ROLAND, really interesting takes (and tip) on those 3 points! 

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    Rafa
    RafaCommunity ManagerAuthor
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    September 8, 2026

    Scores update:

    Dark mode 9 Light Mode 4
    Multi-screens 8 Split View 4
    Group Tabs 5 Pin tabs 6
    Inbox Zero 6 Full inbox 2
    Coffee 8 Tea 4
    Milk 8 No Milk 3
    Music 7 Silence 4
    Regular desk 8 Standing desk 4


    Noteworthy mentions: 

    Hot chocolate 2
    Oat Milk 2
    Vertical tabs 1
    Multi-window 1


    We can already see that the community has clear preferences when it comes to some of these points, but on others the choices are more balanced.

    Keep on sharing them, it’s been great to see the particularities in each answer! 
     

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