Just when I started to get used to it! Oh Google!
Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
61–70 of 92 posts
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I use it a lot when developing - I'll have a tab open and then I'll want another tab of the same URL except for a slightly different port number or hostname. I find it faster to duplicate the tab, make the change and hit enter than to select the URL, open a new tab, paste the URL, make the change and hit enter. I use it so much that I finally tracked down how to do it with the keyboard: Alt-D, Alt-Enter. (Shift focus…
Thank you so much for this.
Duplicating tabs is by far my most used feature out of that menu for me and it always irked me that there was no keyboard shortcut available for it and I had to resort to using the mouse to do it (the amount of time lost hitting "Pin tab" or "Reload" by accident - I cannot even begin to tell). That being said, I didn't go out of my way to google for a workaround, either. Maybe, with all the features (or rather what's left) being taken away, I figured there was no hope (but for a dedicated extension) to achieve it.
I will now have to retrain my muscle memory to replace the ordeal before with just Alt-D, Alt-Enter - I don't think it will take long at all.
btw remember the old Opera? Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts (not to even mention customizable Mouse Gestures) - wherever did we lose all this along the way...
Is it really necessary to "optimize" a menu that is mostly unused by everyone (I agree on the point that it's a crowded menu - I'd really love to be able to configure the entries I want in there, but that option is apparently not even on anyone's mind at chrome)
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#63I want a Ctrl + K shortcut.
In IE it dublicated the current tab including the browsing history. It was sooo useful.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#64Usage 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 really hope they don't remove mute/unmute. I absolutely love that feature. Most users don't seem to know about it.
I think most people just click the speaker icon to mute / unmute instead of using the menu options.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#65Usage 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%
If the reasoning is just to save menu space, there must be some prejudice against these close tab options, otherwise why not first targeting the bottom 2 least used options?
Well, 'Unmute tab' is not part of the default menu (you need to first mute the tab for it to become visible.)
I'd imagine 'Bookmark all' is not targeted because there's no simple alternative for it.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#66Chrome 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.
If I'm wrong tell me how.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#67Chrome 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.
That's QWERTY-centric. On my AZERTY keyboard, I can't press Alt+left with one hand, because the right Alt key is replaced with an AltGr key which doesn't work like the Alt key.
So on Chrome, I have currently no way to go back one page with one hand.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
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."
The reason is that you can now press backspace on a website with 100% certainty that you aren't going to lose all the state you just spent 30 minutes on filling out.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#69"close other tabs" is the only option I use. Good to know they are removing it!
That can be easily done by dragging the tab into another window and closing the window with the other tabs.
Yes. Easily. Very convenient having three context switches. First you drag out the tab, it maximizes in its own window, you minimize that window, you go back to the other window, close it, then find the window you just created. Much better than two mouse clicks, I'm sure.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#70Chrome 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.
It's always been a browser of the masses - and a tool to keep eyeballs on Google properties.