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Help Help with tabs on chrome on lollipop

By default Chrome no longer shows tabs in the app. Tabs are now in the 'card file' aka recently used apps. Tap the Recent button and flip through the cards.

Doesn't seem handy to me. The upside is that the cards stay in there even through a reboot.

BUT...you can fix it very easily, that's just the new default behavior. To move tabs back into Chrome as before, go to Settings > Merge tabs and apps and change it from on to off.
 
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Strange that it didn't change then on my nexus 7.

That's actually by design. The tablet's larger screen size means that the tabs can be listed at the top of the screen without a huge impact to the browsable space. Moving the tabs into the Recents interface means that the web page can take up more space on a smaller display (like on a phone).
 
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