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Discussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close
Elliot Kirk
We are trying to replace Internet Explorer 11 with Microsoft Edge Chromium in an 86,000 computer and 140,000 users domain for hospitals.
It is frustrating when Microsoft Edge Chromium is missing Group Policy or built in settings that were available for Internet Explorer and for Microsoft Edge Legacy.
We have many web apps and when users close the browser they don't realize it closes their web-apps too so we need that prompt that IE had that says "Do you want to close all tabs or the current tab"
I don't know if you saw the post above but the feature is added, to warn on close when user tries to close the window and there are more than 1 tab open.
that prompt belongs to IE, it makes no sense in Edge. as a user, if I click on the X button on Edge window to close it, Edge warns me there are more tabs open, which is good, but if it were to ask "do you want to close the current tab", it would be confusing. because what tab? I'm clicking on the X button on Edge window, Not the X button on an individual tab.
once that feature makes it to more stable channels, we can expect a policy for it to be introduced as well.
HotCakeX lforbes It would therefore make sense if a new message saying 'Closing this window will also close the web apps you are currently using. Would you like to continue?' (Yes/No) is added to Edge that pops up when someone clicks the 'red' X on the far right to close the browser window instead of individual tabs.
Most of my older clients tend to close the whole window instead of individual tabs, and often spend time reopening websites afterwards despite my showing them different alternatives.
- This already applies to PWAs (web apps) that you install and if they have tabs (the feature currently is behind a flag) **
so if the PWA that you are using has multiple open tabs, you are warned before closing.
works on Edge Version 89.0.757.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
** edge://flags/#enable-desktop-pwas-tab-strip
