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Is there any way to make Chrome not display an X button for each tab?

I have two reasons for this:

  1. When I have many tabs open, the X buttons take a lot of screen real estate and make the tab titles shorter.
  2. Sometimes I try to move to a different tab and accidentally close it because I push the X button by mistake. (Again, dense tabs.)

Since I almost always use Ctrl + w to close tabs, I don't really need the close button.

Is there any way to make it go away?

amiregelz
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Ram Rachum
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at least I can not see the 'x' when i opened 20 tabs, except for active tab... but that said: no, there is no way of hiding the 'x' except grabbing chromium and changing the source code yourself.

akira
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Google, in their infinite wisdom, removed this option a while ago. Google seems to have started to move the way of Apple: lock everything down, make the UI as simple as possible, remove every option and customization possible, gain complete control over the user experience and the users themselves. Everything I loved about Google just 5 years ago has been thrown out the window.

I have spent many hours searching for a solution to this over many months and have yet to find anything that actually works. As an alternative, maybe try Vivaldi. It is a new Chrome/Chromium based browser that aims to bring back the old customizations and features that use to make made browsers great. It started out kind of shitty, but over the last year they have improved the UI and ironed out a lot of the bugs.

Braden Dodge
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You can alternatively use the Vivaldi browser. It is also based on Chromium just like Chrome. It contains all the features that Chrome does plus a lot more.

Vivaldi includes a setting that removes the cross button from the tabs, it also has a built-in Notes system (so you can keep making personal notes while surfing), and all Chrome extensions work with Vivaldi. Most of all they have a great community that actually listen to your feedback.

I switched from Chrome to Vivaldi and never looked back.

Mugen
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I just found that if you select the left most tab and the press and hold shift and left click the right most tab and then right click and select "pin tabs" it will pin ALL the tabs and remove the "X" from them all :D you can do the same and select "unpin tabs" to reverse this, or just use CTRL+W to close the tabs you

johnvdenley
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A possible work around is to add the extension Sexy Undo Tabs so, when you do commit a natural and human error which happens all too often for me, it's easy to recover from. Until the Chromium developers see the light and allow what at least 170 folks want (according to the summarily closed Bug Request which you can star to increase the head count of folks asking for it), it may be your least worst option.

K7AAY
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I think Pin Tab can fit your need.When right clicking a tab,choose Pin Tab, the close button has been disappeared and you can close the tab via Ctrl+W.

I do not know whether there is a plugin to remove the close button or not.

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