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.
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#12This 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.
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#14As 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.
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#17Why doesn't my down arrow key work on this page?
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#19Also, it's a hidden feature, but you can already Shift+Select a group of tabs, and close/move/etc the whole group.
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#20Maybe 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.