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Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options

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Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options

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Post by rosser »

bhaumik wrote: post #18

Usage stats, from article: - Duplicate: 23.21% - Reload: 22.74% - Pin / Unpin tab: 13.12% - Close tab: 9.68% - Reopen closed tab: 8.92% - New tab: 6.63% - Close tabs to the right: 6.06% - Mute tab: 5.38% - Close other tabs: 2.20% - Unmute tab: 1.41% - Bookmark all tabs: 0.64%

I use "Bookmark all tabs" all the time. It's a handy way to capture a subject matter dive for later reference.

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Post by tokenizerrr »

bhaumik wrote: post #18

Usage stats, from article: - Duplicate: 23.21% - Reload: 22.74% - Pin / Unpin tab: 13.12% - Close tab: 9.68% - Reopen closed tab: 8.92% - New tab: 6.63% - Close tabs to the right: 6.06% - Mute tab: 5.38% - Close other tabs: 2.20% - Unmute tab: 1.41% - Bookmark all tabs: 0.64%

Guess I am both the 2.20% and the 6.06%. Will be really sad to see this go.

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Post by FreakyT »

bhaumik wrote: post #18

Usage stats, from article: - Duplicate: 23.21% - Reload: 22.74% - Pin / Unpin tab: 13.12% - Close tab: 9.68% - Reopen closed tab: 8.92% - New tab: 6.63% - Close tabs to the right: 6.06% - Mute tab: 5.38% - Close other tabs: 2.20% - Unmute tab: 1.41% - Bookmark all tabs: 0.64%

Part of the 6.06%!

I will definitely miss the close tabs to the right option. Interesting that Duplicate is so popular; I've never really used it for anything, ever.

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Post by gergles »

MaulingMonkey wrote: post #15
echelon wrote: post #9

Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Power user usability features are disappearing. I'm still upset over the removal of the backspace key as "back" navigation. I shouldn't need an extension for this.

My muscle memory has adjusted to Alt+Left (thanks to their reminder popup.) However, I've moved onto being upset by webcomics that bind the arrow keys without filtering out Alt+Arrows, resulting in an unfortunate combination of history and non-history navigation when attempting to use this shortcut.

See, I hate that reminder popup. Like, "Oh, yeah, we know that you've been using backspace to go back in your web browser since 1997, but we're going to take that away. We're not going to use the functionality for anything else. We're just going to pop up a smug dialog box every time you hit backspace telling you that backspace is deprecated and to relearn this command for no good reason."

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Post by Mithaldu »

FreakyT wrote: post #19
echelon wrote: post #9

Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Power user usability features are disappearing. I'm still upset over the removal of the backspace key as "back" navigation. I shouldn't need an extension for this.

> the backspace key as "back" navigation That was a ridiculous usability nightmare and was only popular due to muscle memory from IE doing it long ago (it was a terrible decision back then, too). Good riddance to it, may no one ever again unfocus a form field by accident and wipe out an entire form with a single keypress.

> wipe out an entire form with a single keypress.

That's a bug in the browser caching design, not an issue with backspace navication.

Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options

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Post by wry_discontent »

colept wrote: post #4

I use these everyday, they better have flags to re-enable them. Would be annoying to have to drag a tab to a new window and close the other window.

I don't understand why it's preferable to remove the functionality vs having some better settings that allow me to customize my browser experience.
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