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Ask Before Closing Multiple Tabs feature - Now Available
It really doesn't belong to this feature. so what if i have 10 or 25 tabs open, like what does the browser expect me to do by mentioning it?! if I want to close the browser then that's what I want to do, this feature just warns me that there are other tabs open and that's alright.
I don't remember exactly but I think Firefox showed number of open tabs before closing multiple tabs and that was pretty useless. a simple tab count number doesn't mean other tabs are important or not, or say anything about the contents of those tabs.
1 tab can be more important than 100 other tabs depending on its content.
- -Mohit-Dec 29, 2020Copper Contributor
I can somewhat understand why Omar-Os wants to have the number of open tabs shown in the warning. I totally respect that different browsers do things differently, but as someone who is also migrating from Firefox, I was actually also expecting the warning to warn me about not only that I'm going to close all tabs but also how many tabs I'm going to close. Of course this feature is not supposed to count the number of open tabs, but I don't thnk showing the number in the warning would be misplaced or could have any negative impact on the user experience either. It might actually even improve the user experience in my opinion.
Omar-Os Maybe the Extension Tab Count for Microsoft Edge is useful to you as an alternative.
- HotCakeXDec 29, 2020MVPAnd can you explain how exactly it can improve user experience? Edge developers usually ask users about how a feature suggestion can be exactly useful and helpful before implementing it, which makes total sense.
so any real life example or use cases for it that is useful?- -Mohit-Dec 29, 2020Copper Contributor
HotCakeXWell, it might improve the user experience because it makes users a bit more aware of what they are going to do.
For example, I noticed that when I close a Firefox window with a huge number of open tabs (rather than one with a small number) I often consider checking once more if there is really no important tab among them. That's why I find a message like "Do you want to close 123 tabs?" more helpful than a message like "Do you want to close all tabs?".
Of course, this may be completely subjective and only my personal preference. I can't tell what other users find useful or not.
And besides, Edge doesn't (natively) show the number of open tabs anywhere else either, right? It does however in the mobile Version. So this feature could be a way to introduce this information in the Desktop version.
By the way, I'm not saying that this is an essential information or that the closure warning feature would be inclomplete without it. It doesn't even necessarily have to be in the closure warning message (but it would make sense though).
- Omar-OsDec 29, 2020Iron Contributor
-Mohit-
Don't waste your time with her, she's always against any good idea from any customer and always tries to convince them that their idea is terrible with no actual good reason or explanation.
Thanks for the extension, but I'm trying to NOT use extensions as much as possible!
Not to use extensions for every silly detail that Edge doesn't have while other browsers does !- HotCakeXDec 29, 2020MVPSpoiler
Omar-Os wrote:-Mohit-
Don't waste your time with her, she's always against any good idea from any customer and always tries to convince them that their idea is terrible with no actual good reason or explanation.
Thanks for the extension, but I'm trying to NOT use extensions as much as possible!
Not to use extensions for every silly detail that Edge doesn't have while other browsers does !Lol I literally explained everything in the thread and then this guy says "without any explanation"
and you're wrong about the rest too, I'm not against any idea. but it's a community, when you mention something, people can agree or disagree.
if you don't want that, then you can send your idea straight to Edge developers using feedback button.
people really need to understand this and also understand the difference between "disagreement" and "personal attack", and that in the world, not everyone agrees with you and that's OK.