Chrome may soon start asking if you really want to close all your tabs

Google Chrome on Android is testing a new feature that will show a dialog box asking if you really want to close all your tabs. 

With as much web browsing as we do on our phones, Chrome on Android has had a ‘Close all tabs’ menu option on the tabs page for a while now, but it seems some people might be tapping that accidentally because Google has started testing a new Close all tabs modal dialog box.

When the feature is enabled from the chrome://flags page in Chrome Canary 100, selecting the ‘Close all tabs’ menu will show a new confirmation popup.

Once the dialog appears, you can either press Cancel (or your device’s back button/gesture) to not close the tabs, or press ‘Close all tabs’ to confirm. If you decide to press forward, all tabs will be wiped and the browser will close.

Canary builds are unstable, so you may want to wait until beta or the polished release. It's also unclear how soon Google might build the flag into regular settings or enable it by default, provided the feature survives through future releases.

In retrospect, it's a little surprising that Chrome didn't have this kind of confirmation already, and so it was entirely possible that someone might close important stuff accidentally while doing a cleanup.