In case it's helpful: in Chrome you can shift-click and select ranges of tabs and close them all at once.
Wow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?
Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
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#32Do non-power users even right-click on tabs? Literally what is the issue with having the option if I right-click? Fucking stupid to take it out, it's just another nudge back towards Firefox...
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#33I live and die by these two cmds on my browser. wow. how else do people manage the avalanche of tabs that is browsing today?
It's not hyperbole to say that Tabs Outliner changed my browsing life. Make per-task windows, open and save them at will.
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#34Chrome 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.
I use Chrome for testing and I'm constantly astounded.
Apparently I need an add-on just to open a blank page on browser load, and even then you have to manually remove the about:blank text before entering the first url.
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#35In case it's helpful: in Chrome you can shift-click and select ranges of tabs and close them all at once.
Wow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?
I discovered it ... by reading the linked article to the end. Now if they knew about it before I'd like to know how ;-)
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#36There's a chrome extension called 'OneTab' that I tend to use for this purpose anyway.
You can whitelist certain websites (for instance, I whitelist email because I want to keep it open and AWS because the login is a pain).
Any time I feel like my current stash of tabs is out of control, I hit the onetab button and everything that's not that important gets archived into an html file that's automatically opened in a tab when the button is pressed (so 10+ tabs get archived down into one). This way I can clean up my tab mess without losing anything.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?
I discovered it ... by reading the linked article to the end. Now if they knew about it before I'd like to know how ;-)
For me it was documented in another browser and I tried it in Chrome and it worked.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#38Chrome 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.
I'm almost surprised some of the "power user" features aren't gone already, like search keywords.
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#39I 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.
Because "old" is "bad." Throw away everything that makes people happy and start with reinventing the wheel. Also, corporations are slow, unresponsive and inconsiderate because incompetent people can hide and also bureaucracy.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#40In case it's helpful: in Chrome you can shift-click and select ranges of tabs and close them all at once.
Wow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?
This has been a pattern for selecting ranges of text for a long time: if you place your cursor in one location and shift click in another it will select all the text in between. Also works with most file browsers. It's not too hard to imagine generalizing this to tabs, too.
Bonus fact: the itemized selection done via Ctrl-click also works with tabs. If you use Ctrl-W you can close these tabs, or if you drag one of them you can extract all the selected tabs to a new window.