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kopoku
May 12, 2020Former Employee
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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YasinAkimura
May 20, 2020Brass Contributor
- How many groups of tabs did you have set aside in the Legacy Microsoft Edge?
- alot see screenshot
- How long did you typically keep these groups of set aside tabs?
- I'm honest sometimes I forget to close them dates back up to 7 months a reminder for tabs that are kept aside for too long would be a nice touch for my forgetful 😅
- 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)?
- 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.
- Yeah its helpful sometimes but not as organized as Set Tabs aside and snapshots are the most helpful
What do you think about the Recently closed tabs experience?
- So far its great and a nice addition
- 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.
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?
- Yes but the only reason for me to use that is because set tabs aside is gone like it was before but its still very convenient I can see myself keep using it even if set tabs aside like in old Edge comes back.
How do your use cases differ amongst Tab Set Aside, Collections, and Recently closed tabs?
- Recently closed tabs: easy I want to use that to start quickly where I left
- Collections: To be honest just a modern way of favorites.. too much interactions takes up time well thats picky
- Tab Set Aside: To get different sessions organized I like that you can see a snapshot instead of relying on your memories of that provided link with some random images taken as preview image in comparison to Collection. And that you can open individual links with just one your second mouse click out of your Set Tabs Aside. Collections take up to 3 clicks plus your recognition on that tab.
- TimIronsMay 20, 2020Brass Contributor
Recently closed is very useful, but I wouldn't have expected to find the list in history. Perhaps a more on the primary list of 5 recent tabs would be more intuitive.
I always use continue where I left off.
I've never used set aside tabs or collections. Both appear to replicate favourites.