I live and die by these two cmds on my browser. wow. how else do people manage the avalanche of tabs that is browsing today?
As someone who rarely has more than a few tabs open, I honestly don't get this. What are you doing with so many tabs?
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
#12Chrome 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.
> Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses.
Well it's clearely been targeting the masses since the beginning.
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Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#14Chrome 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.
> Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Well it's clearely been targeting the masses since the beginning.
When Chrome first came out it was applauded for things developers and powerusers cared about: a sandboxed multiprocess approach, a fast JavaScript engine, low memory footprint (this is hilarious in 2017), open-source, a task manager, etc.
Remember this guy? [1] It's a 40 page comic book of stuff the masses would never care about.
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#15Chrome 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.
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#16"close other tabs" is the only option I use. Good to know they are removing it!
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#17Switch to firefox, before google's heavyweight prowess forces it out of the market!
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#18Usage 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%
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#19Chrome 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.
Re: Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
#20So sad, "close tabs to the right" is my favorite.