Discussion - Getting back to websites important to you

1. How many groups of tabs did you have set aside in the Legacy Microsoft Edge?

Depend on the project that I'm working on. Most busy days up to 50.

2. How long did you typically keep these groups of set aside tabs?

Unless I will return to them or I will forgot the group exists. Usually normal time is a few hours (20%)/ few days (30%) / few months (10%) / never (40%). Sometimes I do not want to restore all tabs, but I would like to only add one or more pages to tabs aside.

3. Are you aware of or have you used the Recently closed tabs experience which is accessible in the More menu (…) and in the full page History experience (Edge 83 Canary/Dev/Beta)

3a. Does not store it between PC was turned down and is not synced. I have to keep the browser session between different classes at university (9 subjects each semester). I return to those sessions when I need. It is required for me. It takes too much time to organize (store and reopen saved links from collections). I and my friends at faculty stick to use legacy Edge.

3b. What do you think about the Recently closed tabs experience?

It is good only for tabs(one or entire set) accidently closed. It can not be trusted that tabs will not be overridden by opening limit (you store limited amount of tabs). I open up to 30 tabs from one web search results. How you think opening and closing tabs would mess up the recently closed tabs list?

4. Do you use the "Continue where you left" setting (edge://settings/onStartup) which automatically restores the tabs from your last active browser window on browser restart? Why or why not?

It would work when I have only one subject at the semester at the same point or create separate Edge profiles for each subject. It is crazy to do so. Also switching between many profiles need to configure all settings etc.... You should think about tabs aside like "a browser clipboard for the tabs"

5. How do your use cases differ amongst Tab Set Aside, Collections, and Recently closed tabs?

Tabs aside, to store current state of work, when you need to pick it up. Ex you work on the research for your project for given subject at university, but lecture ends and you need to start new browser and go on with next subject. When you get home you have state of your work from different lectures. (snapshot of your work to continue later). Mozilla Firefox had in the past possibility to keep all opened sessions and reopen them later, but idea was badly realized. There was not preview of the tabs stored in the session and comparison which session you want to open. It was not possible to merge tabs stored in session with current session. All that problems were solved in the Tabs aside function. It is easy to use thanks to button located in tabs bar. It is easy to compare different tabs aside(s) thanks to panel view. It will be much more complex to compare sets of tabs stored in collections. The view created for tabs aside is a breakthrough.
Collections - when you work on something structured (master thesis, shoping for Christmas) and you have time to take notes and organize your stored tabs (draft work).
Recently closed tabs - backup if you closed some page that you had open just 5 min ago to get it back. The browser history is a good place to get it too. But the recently closed tabs is quicker to access. (backup plan).