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kopoku
Former Employee
May 12, 2020

Discussion - Getting back to websites important to you

Hi,    Thank you all for the insightful discussion about your use cases of the Legacy Microsoft Edge's Tab Set Aside feature and confirmation prompt when closing a browser window.  ...
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seancorfield
Iron Contributor
May 13, 2020

kopoku 

 

  1.  How many groups of tabs did you have set aside in the Legacy Microsoft Edge?
    1. About a dozen
  2. How long did you typically keep these groups of set aside tabs?
    1. Typically just a few days but some were around for a month or so
  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)?
    1. Recently closed tabs automatically saves your 25 most recently closed tabs and browser windows with their tab history for 2 browser sessions. When you restore a recently closed tab or browser window, it is removed from Recently closed. You can use the Ctrl (CMD on macOS) + Shift + T shortcut to quickly restore closed tabs or browser windows. 

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

      1. Yes, I've used it, and it's useful for pulling back tabs I accidentally closed "recently" but I open and close hundreds of tabs over the day, so it's never useful for restoring anything I did more than an hour or so ago

  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?

    1. Yes! If I need to restart the browser or restart Windows to pick up an update, I want the browser to automatically come back to the last state it was in (note: I leave a browser window open 24x7 so it is only ever closed due to browser/system updates!)

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

    1. See above for recently closed (useful for accidentally closed tabs); tab set aside was great for "context switching" because all the tabs went away and then stayed in the side drawer until you restored them; collections are more of a glorified favorites list (in fact I rarely use favorites at all); I have ten collections right now, each named for a theme, and I add notes to specific items to remind me of where I was or next steps to take -- I really miss the transient nature of tab set aside!

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