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Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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This looks great. Definitely feels like something that should have existed for a while. Hopefully this will encourage some “tab collectors” to convert their groups to bookmark folders. I use Safari on my Mac, but its behind in tab management. I especially miss being able to drag multiple tabs at once between windows.

Interestingly, moving multiple tabs is one of the few places where Safari on iOS can do something that Safari on macOS can’t.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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This seems to be a mixture of the "collections" feature from Firefox Mobile (Beta/Preview) and Firefox's container tabs, but without the security / isolation benefits. From what I can tell, the main benefit seems to be in relation to identifying similar-looking tabs. It's unfortunate that they didn't bake in the same security and isolation benefits of Firefox's container tabs, or the "put aside and come back to it la…

A bit tinfoil hat, but could it be an attempt to head off Firefox Containers which would be a threat to Google Cookie collection? That's certainly my main use case for containers, using Google Music without telling the rest of the web about my Google account.

https://github.com/atomontage/chrome-private

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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It looks cool as a person who has at least 20 tabs open in Chrome almost always but it would be much better if we could also use different profiles in the same Chrome window.

As they demonstrated, people usually would like to use labels such as work, personal, etc. but it's not really useful if I can't log in my GSuite and personal Gmail in the same Chrome window.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Maybe I'm wrong (EDIT: seems I'm wrong!), but I feel like the people with dozens of tabs open (guilty) aren't the ones who use organizational features?

Also, it's a hidden feature, but you can already Shift+Select a group of tabs, and close/move/etc the whole group.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Maybe I'm wrong (EDIT: seems I'm wrong!), but I feel like the people with dozens of tabs open (guilty) aren't the ones who use organizational features? Also, it's a hidden feature, but you can already Shift+Select a group of tabs, and close/move/etc the whole group.

One Firefox extension "Tree Style Tabs", popular with dozens-of-tabs folks, has near a quarter million users. I imagine they will be objecting that tab groups don't go far enough :)
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