Discussion - Getting back to websites important to you

kopoku 

1.  How many groups of tabs did you have set aside in the Legacy Microsoft Edge?                           Around a dozen or so
2. How long did you typically keep these groups of set aside tabs?                                                      Around a week generally. Sometimes even for a month.
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)?     Yes, I am aware of that feature. But I don't use it that often.
   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?                                         It is good and does what it says.

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?                                                                                                                               No, I don't. I prefer a fresh window whenever I open the browser. If I want to continue with what I was doing earlier, I can easily use the Recently closed tabs feature.

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

I feel that an important difference is that Tab Set Aside is much faster and easier to continue with. For example, I am casually surfing on the web. I find many interesting news articles and open all of them in different tabs. i suddenly realise that I have to do research on a project. So, I set aside these news article tabs and get a fresh browser window. Later on, I can restore these tabs. I don't need to store them permanently. So, after I have restored them, they no longer remain stored in the browser. When I close the tabs after reading the news articles, I will probably not need them again. So, Set Aside Tabs is temporary storage of tabs.

While doing research, I want reliable information that I am going to store for a long period of time. So, I will add my tabs to a new collection so that I don't lose them and I can access them whenever I need them.

In my opinion, the collections feature is better in the sense that it is more organised and has quite a few useful tools. However, when I send all my tabs to a new collection, the tabs still remain on the Window. So, now, again, I have to right click and close all tabs. 

Similarly, in Edge legacy, when I restore all tabs, then they are removed from the list. In the case of collections, however, the tabs still remain in the collection.

So, I strongly believe that the new Edge should have a Tab Set Aside just like the previous Edge. These features should co-exist, each having their own use cases.

Also, in the "Tabs you have set aside" list, there should be an option that can send all those tabs to a new collection in case the user wants to store them more permanently in a categorised manner.