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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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Post by wyldfire »

> tab collectors who have...significantly more

Guilty as charged. I have a hard time saying goodbye to some of those tabs sometimes. Tab minimalists react in horror. Meh -- they're missing out.

> Now, with a simple right click, you can group your tabs together and label them with a custom name and color.

I'm afraid that this might just free enough pixels to allow me to collect yet more tabs. ;)

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

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Post by skavi »

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.

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

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Post by ygra »

I liked what IE ... 8? has done abck in the day where opening a new tab from another one will create a colored group, so you kinda have automatic grouping that allows you to tell at a glance "Oh those all belong to the same tvtropes tab rampage, but I'm looking for that other thing now I was looking at before".

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

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Post by barryvan »

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 later" functionality that (old) Edge and Firefox Mobile's "collections" bring.

I'm also not sure how adding _more_ to the tabstrip will improve utility in Chrome, where tabs so quickly become impossible to manage because the strip doesn't scroll.

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

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Post by mkj »

barryvan wrote: post #6

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.
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