How to Use the Telegram In-App Browser: Multi-Tab Collapsing, TON Sites Web3 Support & Instant Bookmarks
The browser inside Telegram is no longer a window that opens and closes. It has tabs, it remembers where you were, and it reaches addresses an ordinary browser cannot.
Which turns it from a place you pass through into a place you stay — and that is a different set of trade-offs.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Keep several pages open at once.
- check_circle Return to something without losing the chat.
- check_circle Open addresses only this browser resolves.
- check_circle Know what to take out to your real browser.
Tabs stay open behind the chat and come back where they were.
tab A browser you live in by accident
The original design was honest about being temporary: a page opened over the conversation and closed back into it. Nothing accumulated, which was the point.
Tabs change that quietly. Pages stay, and after a week there are eleven of them from things people sent you. That is convenient and it is also a set of sessions living in a browser separate from the one you manage — different cookies, different history, no password manager, no extensions.
The practical consequence is that it is now worth clearing. Whatever you signed into in there stays signed in, in a place you never think about, and the browser's own data can be cleared from Telegram's settings when you want a clean start.
It also reaches things a normal browser does not. Addresses ending in .ton belong to a separate naming system, and this browser resolves them — which is genuinely useful for anybody dealing with that world and, for everybody else, a reason to be careful: an address that only works here is an address you cannot check anywhere else.
Four things it changes
The third is the one with a security edge to it.
dynamic_feed Reading without losing the chat
cleaning_services A second browser nobody maintains
public The .ton addresses
open_in_new The one rule that has not changed
Stay for reading, leave for signing in. And clear it now and then, because nothing else will.
settings Using it
- Open links normally They arrive in the in-app browser by default.
- Use tabs for comparing Rather than going back and forth.
- Close them when finished They stay loaded otherwise.
- Open in your real browser for anything with a password From the menu.
- Clear its data occasionally In Telegram's settings.
- Be sceptical of addresses only it can open You cannot verify them elsewhere.
This page is the browser having grown up. The curriculum step is the choice underneath: what a web view can and cannot see, why a password manager matters, and setting the default for how links open in the first place.
