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Discussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close
Elliot Kirk
The necessity for such options is this: we don't want to have to go through the tedium of saving our multiple windows of multiple tabs without losing them. This actually pertains to the reason we use Task Manager to close our browsers (including Edge, Chrome, etc.): By doing so, we needn't worry about setting tabs aside (or whatever app, et. al, you speak of that I've never heard of) because Win10 has advanced to the point that it remembers and automatically reopens them (windows and tabs when we return and restart the browser in question).
This is very handy--nay, essential--to we multitudes who have a great number of subjects we are exploring and several search results for each. (It was likely instituted for those times when we suddenly find the need to download a new app or program and people were losing all that was open as a result. It sucked.
This way we don't want to interrupt what we were doing on any account. Our work is saved in every MS program also, even in the case of power outages! Imagine that you are a writer or a researcher--a student or an executive--who must accurately conquer the five-six minute details of a broader given, in-depth, subject. Meanwhile, you've also watching you online email for an imperative message and you've got an online grocer list going ... the possibilities are endless.
This, most simple thing, is already included within your settings: On startup, "Resume where you left off." The problem we are experiencing is two-fold, being unenforced by system conflicts:
- MS Edge (Echo, whatever) continues to ask whether we wish to resume where we left off though that has already been inferred and, because this is already inferred in our initial browser settings (and in our internet preferences within Win10's system settings), we are not likely to notice the third redundancy when we reopen the MS browser.
- I just realized that by using the "FrontPage" extension (possibly thinking we suddenly need to despite our homepage already being set as Bing--and this is happening in ALL browsers!!!) is cancelling out every one of our settings to "resume where we left off"!!!
I also suggest another simple, yet major improvement, that would be useful for the prior-noted browser history failures, which to my knowledge no browser yet provides: a means of selecting several items within the browser's history (using, say, click/shift/click or check-boxing more than one link within the history) to reopen those tabs at once. This would certainly ease our frustration when each of the prior "fail-safes" should indeed fail.