Until now, changing your IP in a browser usually meant changing the connection for everything you had open.
If you wanted to check a website from the United States, you connected to a US location. If you then needed to see the same experience from the United Kingdom, you changed locations again.
Your entire browser moved with you.
That works when you only need one location at a time. But it becomes inconvenient when you want to compare different regional experiences, test how a website behaves across locations, or keep location-specific work separate from your everyday browsing.
That is what IP Per Tab is designed to change.
With IP Per Tab from PureVPN, individual Chrome tabs can use different routes at the same time.
One tab can use a residential IP in the United States. Another can use a residential IP in the United Kingdom. A third can stay on your original direct connection.
All inside the same browser.
The Problem With One Connection for Your Entire Browser
Think about how browsing normally works when your connection is routed through a VPN or proxy.
You might have several tabs open:
- An online store
- A video platform
- A search engine
- A work dashboard
- A website you are testing
But they are all tied to the same browser-wide connection.
If you change that connection, everything changes with it.
That means a simple task like comparing a website across two locations can turn into a repetitive process:
Connect. Check. Switch location. Refresh. Check again.
And if you want to keep another tab on your normal connection while doing that, the workflow becomes even more awkward.
IP Per Tab changes the connection at the tab level instead.
Introducing IP Per Tab
IP Per Tab gives individual Chrome tabs their own routes.
Instead of making every tab follow the same connection, you can choose how different tabs connect based on what you are doing.
For example:
Tab 1 → United States residential IP
Tab 2 → United Kingdom residential IP
Tab 3 → Direct connection
All three can remain open at the same time.
Switch between the tabs and each one keeps its own route.
You do not have to change the connection for your entire browser simply because one tab needs a different location.
That is the core idea behind IP Per Tab:
Different tabs. Different IPs. More control.
What Does IP Per Tab Look Like in Practice?
The experience is designed to be straightforward.
Imagine you have three Chrome tabs open.
In the first tab, you are researching a website from a US perspective. You assign that tab a United States residential IP.
In the second, you want to see how the same or another website behaves for someone connecting from the UK. You assign it a United Kingdom residential IP.
Your third tab is for normal browsing and does not need a different location, so you keep it on your direct connection.
Now you can move between all three without changing the connection for the entire browser.
The US tab stays US.
The UK tab stays UK.
The Direct tab stays on your original connection.
Each tab keeps the route you chose for it.
Compare Regional Website Experiences Side by Side
One of the clearest uses for IP Per Tab is regional research.
Websites do not always look or behave exactly the same everywhere.
Depending on the location, you may encounter differences in:
- Product availability
- Pricing
- Currency
- Shipping information
- Regional content
- Website messaging
- Localized experiences
Previously, checking those differences could mean repeatedly switching your browser connection from one location to another.
With IP Per Tab, you can keep different regional experiences open in separate tabs.
A US experience can sit alongside a UK experience, making comparisons much easier.
Instead of remembering what changed after switching locations, you can see the experiences side by side.
Test How Websites Behave Across Locations
IP Per Tab can also simplify location testing.
Developers, QA teams, marketers, researchers, and other professionals sometimes need to understand how a website behaves when accessed from different locations.
With individual routing at the tab level, you can dedicate separate tabs to separate test locations.
For example:
- Test the US version in one tab
- Test the UK version in another
- Keep your regular browsing direct in a third
You can then move between those experiences without repeatedly changing the connection for everything else you have open.
This can make regional testing easier to manage, especially when you need to compare multiple experiences during the same session.
Keep Location-Specific Tasks Separate
Not everything you do in your browser needs a different IP.
You might need a US residential IP for one specific task while wanting the rest of your browsing to continue normally.
IP Per Tab lets you separate those workflows.
Your location-specific tabs can use the routes they need while another tab stays on your direct connection.
That means you no longer have to make a browser-wide decision every time one task requires a different location.
The connection follows the tab instead.
Why Tab-Level Control Matters
The important change here is not simply having access to another IP.
It is having control over where that IP is applied.
Traditional browser-wide routing treats every open tab the same way.
IP Per Tab gives you more granular control.
Instead of:
Browser → One route
you can have:
Tab 1 → US
Tab 2 → UK
Tab 3 → Direct
That opens up workflows that are much harder when every tab is forced through the same connection.
And because everything stays inside the same Chrome browser, you can move between tasks naturally instead of constantly reorganizing how you browse.
No More Changing Your Whole Browser for One Tab
Sometimes only one tab needs a different location.
Previously, that could mean changing the connection for every other tab too.
With IP Per Tab, changing what one tab needs does not require changing the route for your entire browser.
That makes the experience particularly useful when you are:
- Comparing websites across regions
- Checking regional experiences
- Testing location-specific website behavior
- Conducting market research
- Verifying how a campaign or website appears in different markets
- Keeping everyday browsing separate from location-specific work
Your tabs can do different things without forcing your entire browser to follow along.
How IP Per Tab Works
The workflow comes down to three simple steps:
1. Open a tab
Open the website or task you want to work with.
2. Choose a route
Select the connection that particular tab needs.
That could be a residential IP in a specific location or your direct connection.
3. Browse
Continue browsing while that tab keeps its selected route.
Then repeat the process for another tab if you need a different connection.
No changing the connection for your whole browser just because one tab needs something different.
One Browser. Multiple Routes.
IP Per Tab changes a simple assumption about browser connectivity: that every tab needs to use the same route.
Now they do not have to.
You can have one Chrome tab using a US residential IP, another using a UK residential IP, and another staying on your direct connection, all at the same time.
For regional research, location testing, or simply keeping different browsing tasks separate, that means less switching and more control over how individual tabs connect.
Open a tab. Choose a route. Browse.
That is IP Per Tab by PureVPN.
Different tabs. Different IPs. More control.
