Forum Discussion
Introducing Workspaces in Edge | New feature
- Having the control/menu on the right makes a certain kind of sense, since it’s near the profile selector (workspaces seem to be a sort of “subclass” of a profile, eh?)
- On the left next to the vertical tabs toggle... seems a little crowded
You’re right; it seems this may replace most* remaining “set aside tabs” functionality not available using existing workarounds involving the use of favorites and collections (i.e. maintaining per-tab forward/backward navigation history and tab page scroll position).
* Except for “Boss key”-style single-click functionality and (maybe) remembering which tab was selected. (Marking the selected/frontmost tab is actually the thing I miss most now that I use the “Save all tabs to favorites” feature.)
P.S. This is an interesting addition along with the new well-designed “Kids Mode”.
One nice (per-workspace?) option might be to close all existing tabs/windows when switching, as is done when entering “Kids Mode” today.
Example:
- At the end of a workday, one could select their “Evening” workspace, and everything assigned to their “Work” workspace would disappear (from screen and hopefully from mind) automatically until they switched back the next morning.
That sort of 2-4 click functionality for context switching is still missing from the new Edge browser.
If this really preserves tab selection and page scroll location like the legacy “Set-Aside Tabs” feature, restoring everything as if nothing had happened, that would be quite amazing!