Sure enough.  I was slow to catch on.

You have to wind back to version 91.  Both 92 and 93 break tabs outlier.

For OSX, I deleted chrome, logged out & back in (*reboot not necessary),

and re-installed 91 from  

https://google-chrome.en.uptodown.com/mac/download/3791999

All better now.  

But concerned about missing security patches.