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Discussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close
Why not combine Set Aside Tabs with Collections. Save all open tabs to a new collection and have the option to reopen them all from there at a later time. Best of both worlds. By the way I love the Collection feature.
Jacques Van de Meerssche This is a great idea and would solve my problem (the jarring workflow to restore tabs closed from a browser exit). I think it's also a good introduction to collections for all users. You could even built a mini tutorial in there the first time the user closes the browser -- on the next open, a pop-up with "we've put all the tabs you had open in a collection in case you need them".
That makes the most sense to me, especially since the "continue where I left off" option in the "On Startup" settings page doesn't work that way (seems to only restore tabs if the browser was force-closed).
[EDIT] Apologies, didn't check the date -- I see the feature was sort-of implemented in one of the latest dev releases. Haven't had my coffee yet...
- You can right-click on Edge top bar and select "reopen closed window" or use the CTRL + Shift + T shortcut.
that will restore your previous tabs if they were all in the same window.HotCakeXThanks for guiding everyone on how to push through request. I'll say what I said on other topics here. I really don't like how collections work compared to "set these tabs aside" it was simpler to use that way and whatever you do you can save quickly.. Now if you close out of tabs you no longer need you have to save/update the collection again. The set aside remembered what changed you did to the tabs you re-opened. Collections isn't doing that currently.
As other said, it might make more sense to combine the two things. The idea of collections was to allow it to be opened on other systems. Well just make that possible for set tabs aside. Firefox, Chrome and all those browsers do updates regularly. Edge should do the same and keep introducing new features on every version, but a little at a time so users can be trained on how to use them. They all started with just a few key features that made them stick out and built on it.
BTW there is at least 3 topics that I know of on this, which one matters the most to development. Is it this one?
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xunderworldx wrote:HotCakeXThanks for guiding everyone on how to push through request. I'll say what I said on other topics here. I really don't like how collections work compared to "set these tabs aside" it was simpler to use that way and whatever you do you can save quickly.. Now if you close out of tabs you no longer need you have to save/update the collection again. The set aside remembered what changed you did to the tabs you re-opened. Collections isn't doing that currently.
As other said, it might make more sense to combine the two things. The idea of collections was to allow it to be opened on other systems. Well just make that possible for set tabs aside. Firefox, Chrome and all those browsers do updates regularly. Edge should do the same and keep introducing new features on every version, but a little at a time so users can be trained on how to use them. They all started with just a few key features that made them stick out and built on it.
BTW there is at least 3 topics that I know of on this, which one matters the most to development. Is it this one?
Thanks, I'm not sure which one matters more to them but they do read all of the topics, judging by the replies we get on each topic
So I think here are the changes that still need to happen to the Collections:
- Edge needs an ability to add all open tabs to an existing collection, instead of adding all open tabs to a new collection every time.
- There need to be a dedicated button added to each Collection for easy opening of all Collection items. (there is already the Collections button to open the panel)
- when we open a Collection's items, that were made out of open tabs, in new tabs, any changes we make to those tabs, such as closing them or going to a different address, should be reflected back to the Collection. and the opened tabs should be put in a tab group, separate from the rest of the tabs that were already open or pinned. tab groups are a great way to separate tabs and show they belong together using a group name and a special color. the color can be random but the group name can have the same name as the Collection name.
