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vudean2355
Brass Contributor
Oct 14, 2020

Tab Groups - hide/unhide?

I like the Tab Groups feature, however it would be much more useful if you could hide and unhide the groups.  Maybe with a simple double click of the tab name.  and a double click on the name to bring it back.

 

(If you don't have it on go to: edge://flags/ then search 'tab groups')

 

This could even be incorporated with tab sleeping so that when you hide the group, it puts it to sleep.

At a minimum I have a bunch of tabs open for work, and a bunch for personal and I try to group them.  You could also create a group for researching/buying something like a car.  Or a certain work task, etc.

Or could someone develop an extension that could do this hiding/unhiding of groups?

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    vudean2355
    Oct 30, 2020

    HotCakeX   Kam Rohit Yadav 

    They added it!!! They actually added it!  They actually listened! One click and you can hide and unhide the group in the latest Edge Dev version!  I wonder if it puts it to sleep too?

    I love you Microsoft! (not sure I thought I'd ever say that) 🙂

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    HotCakeX
    MVP
    Oct 14, 2020
    I want this too. Chrome added this to their tab groups a while ago but the way I see it, Edge team hasn't really worked on Tab Groups on Edge yet.
    • vudean2355's avatar
      vudean2355
      Brass Contributor
      Oct 30, 2020

      HotCakeX   Kam Rohit Yadav 

      They added it!!! They actually added it!  They actually listened! One click and you can hide and unhide the group in the latest Edge Dev version!  I wonder if it puts it to sleep too?

      I love you Microsoft! (not sure I thought I'd ever say that) 🙂

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        HotCakeX
        MVP
        Oct 30, 2020
        Oh wow, thanks for letting us know, it's really great news.
        I really hope this was intentional and wasn't just an accidental update that came from Chromium and so hopefully it will not be removed in future update.

        now to perfect this feature, they need to add one more feature from Chrome, which is to automatically create tab groups instead of user manually creating them.

        so if you visit this website and then right-click on a link to open it in a new tab, Chrome automatically creates a tab group and puts your current tab and the newly opened tab into that group for you.

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    JAUSA
    Copper Contributor
    Oct 05, 2024
    This sounds like minimizing or collapsing the tab group in the tab bar. Chrome also has an enhancement now where "hiding" the tab group closes the group entirely and moves it to the bookmarks bar to free up space in the tabs bar. It would be nice if Edge could add this feature as well.

    Maybe this is what "move group to new window" or "move tab group to a new workspace" is also indirectly addressing, but Chrome's implementation seems cleaner in my opinion.