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Please bring "Set Tabs Aside" to New Edge
As a student, I used the Set Tabs Aside feature all the time. It's one of the reasons I used Edge over Chrome in a Google-heavy school. That habit of setting tabs aside has followed me after school, and it has proven useful time and again.
So please bring this feature over. This feature has helped define Edge.
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It would also be super amazing to bring Set Tabs Aside to the cloud.
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- Agreed, Tabs Aside is one of the most innovative and useful features of not only Edge, but of browsers in general.
I also missed this feature, although using very little, was one of the differentials of the edge, I would like to put a system to highlight one or all tabs, and another to choose which pages to store instead of all.ej_6612
- I am also one of the people who got used to that great feature that presents the old edge, it would be very good to reconsider bringing that feature back, it is very useful in many fields.
ej_6612 This is actually the main reason why I use edge instead of Firefox. Their new update was incredible, but I found myself missing a lot of features from edge, mainly set tabs aside, but also the draw on any webpage feature. Some friends of mine use Edge exclusively for those features and go to chrome or Firefox for everything else. Those features are what made Edge attractive and if they aren't brought over, Microsoft may find many users saying goodbye. I'm only saying this to stress the importance of keeping the browsers identity.
- Sadly I don't think it will happen. MS are being quite lazy and not implementing many features that aren't present in Chrome. Just view new Edge as a re-skinned Chrome.
- ITNOA
I think it is very useful and productive feature, and I strongly suggest sync tabs aside list into all edges in platforms such as Windows, Android and etc, with helping one drive.
in addition it is very important to seamless moving tabs aside list ( history ) from legacy edge to new edge during upgrade. - I *personally* have yet to see a reason to use set aside tabs. I bookmark all of my tabs using ctrl + shift + d and additionally use sleep and hibernate (while keeping my tabs open). I'm not saying that this may replace set aside tabs but it's a workaround. By the way you can select multiple tabs by holding shift and even group them
Edit: I'm also a studentsambul95 I'll try it out. Thanks!
pneenkoalabear I view bookmarks as long term storage and Set Tabs Aside was my short term tab group storage. Allows me to keep that separate easily. Before that, my bookmarks were getting out of control.
Any official statement here? It's a must have for research.
- Once I added Set Tabs Aside to my workflow, it became something I use daily. Not having it kind of messed up my workflow while using Edge Dev. For those who didn't use it, an option to disable it would be welcome. However, I think it should be enabled by default so others could potentially stumble upon it and realize how useful it actually is.
- There would be no need to an option to deactivate because set tab aside must be manually used. The browser does not set tabs aside automatically, one has to click the "save tabs" manually each time. That's the beauty of it, one uses it according to their need and MS does not impose it, for once.
- Only thing wrong with this feature is that MS was dumb enough to omit it from the new version
Fully agreed. Out of all the features that might not come back, this one deserves to come back the most. Please listen to this microsoft and bring back set tab aside. It was incredibly great to use and it was baked into edge itself.
- Agree entirely.
