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Can Edge "save" windows along with the groups/tabs and reopen them as they were when last closed?
Short Version:
My workflow involves keeping 5 named windows each containing constantly updated groups/tabs. Edge is set to reopen everything at restart. But I'm afraid of accidently closing a window and losing all. Can Edge with or without an extension automatically save each window with its current tabs/groups when I close it, so Edge doesn't have to have all five windows open when I need to work in just one?
Longer Version:
My work flow demands I generally operate with 5 named windows open. In my Microsoft Edge each window has 3-7 tab groups with a total of about 70-100 tabs open across the 5 windows at any given time. I'm constantly updating the sites in these groups/tabs, and I need to be able to pick up where I left off when relaunch Edge. It is set to do this, so each time I open Edge it opens with 5 windows and approximately 100 tabs. But at times I only need to work in one window, but in order to keep it and the other four current, I have to keep all 5 windows and all 100 tabs open. I find this an obnoxious waste of resources.
I would like to be able to open the one window in which I need to work, have all my groups/tabs restored from the last session, and pick up where I left off. If I need to open a second, third, etc. window, I want it to load all the groups/tabs it had open the last time it was used. Currently I must have all 5 windows and all 100 tabs open all the time even if I only need to work within one because there is no way to "save" a window's state.
Paranoid that I might accidentally close a window and lose all of its groups and tabs, I regularly save each tab as a collection, but this does not preserve the window setup/structure or the current updated state of each tab. So, the million-dollar question - is there a feature of combination of features in macOS compatible Edge or extension that supports tabs groups and will save a window with all of its groups and tabs in their current state... either automatically or manually?
Thanks!
- astkaasaCopper Contributor
Doug_DdC441 try workspace?
- Doug_DdC441Copper Contributor
astkaasa I'll have to reexamine that feature. As I remember it, it was mainly a colab tool. Perhaps it could keep windows open and ready to reopen should I close one. Thanks!
- ManzanottiCopper ContributorThis is precisely the kind of workflow that I use workspaces for, I don't use it for collaboration at all.
- Miku-RikuCopper ContributorDoug_DdC441 Hey, click on three dots on top-right of the window you are in, you can see a menu that have options like New tab, New Window, New InPrivate Window, .........so on settings, Help and Feedback, Close Microsoft Edge.
Click on "Close Microsoft Edge" at any time you want to close all the Windows, and whenever you open Edge again, everything is retained as it is.
Also You can name each Window, by right-click on the title bar (the top bar for any window featuring the name of the current tab in the current Window) and then select "Name Window". - This will allow you to have different work area windows for different work and everything is retained if you close by clicking "Close Microsoft Edge" from the menu of 3 dots on top-right.- FirlandsFarmCopper Contributor
Miku-Riku but what do you do when everything is not retained? See my post (4th Reply) in this thread