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Discussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close
Just looping back on this topic -- is there any plan to have a tab group "collapse" feature (similar to what's available in Chrome)? I use tab grouping extensively, and it's helpful to be able to temporarily collapse those groups to save on some screen real estate.
Thanks very much!
- yeah what chrome has for tab grouping is super useful.
tab grouping on Edge has made 0 improvements since the last 8/9 months, or since it was first added to Edge (accidentally/Intentionally).
There has been a lot of good topics about how to improve it, none of them were applied to the Edge yet, not even a word from Edge team that they are going to apply them.
I don't know why they keep asking for feedback from users. there are already tons of feedback that are ignored.Everyone, please continue to make noise so we can get this feature back... I forgot even about the history that also gets saved and set aside.... Someone else made an add-on for the new chromium Edge browser. However it doesn't have the history feature sadly. Here is a link for it:
https://microsoftedge.microsoft.com/addons/detail/tabs-aside/kmnblllmalkiapkfknnlpobmjjdnlhnd?hl=en-US
That is an excellent point that I hadn't realized until now.
Saving tabs into either a Favorites folder or into a new collection saves the actual pages, but doesn't help as much for those with a bunch of tabs open.
I've intentionally force-quit the browser before to save all of my existing tabs (and their history), since that can often be useful information.
Having no reliable tab history will lead to more, not fewer, open tabs for a certain class of user.
Because of the complexity, this might demand that a tab-set-aside feature be local only and not included in Edge sync.
Use case example: currently I've got maybe 15 tabs open in a window, but in a different window I'm using the (sometimes very) resource intensive Power Apps Studio editor, so it would be nice to pop those 15 tabs closed for 30 minutes or so, but then recall them and still have the associated history.
Because I can't have that currently, I either have to break my current workflow to deal with those tabs (Power Apps documentation in this case, so they're still kind of in use) or accept the slow performance.
Edit: the legacy "Set Aside Tabs" feature, perhaps more importantly, also stored and restored page scroll position for each tab!
