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Android - search tabs and switch to tab in omnibox
Please star these two Chromium bugs if you guys want this in Edge for Android!
Search tabs
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1052807
Switch to tab:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1043372
and while you're at it, bookmark all tabs:
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1026222
9 Replies
- I don't expect search bar when I open tab switcher
they are filled under bugs, the whole site is dedicated to bugs but they seem to be feature request.
plus I think if it's something that we want on Edge, Microsoft should track it and implement in their Edge browser, in the UI- What's wrong with a search *button* at the top that expands into a bar? It could even only show if you have more than X no. of tabs in a window. 🙂
Feature requests are allowed on Chromium Bugs. The site is focused on *issues*, not bugs per se. Even people who work at Google for Chrome will often discuss features there.
People at Microsoft use the Chromium issue tracker. Microsoft can implement it first in their browser and then make a commit to Chromium, just like they have done with their desktop browser. Microsoft would probably track it themselves but they also want to add it to Chromium, then they'll have to take a look at the Chromium issues anyway.- Spoiler
pneenkoalabear wrote:
What's wrong with a search *button* at the top that expands into a bar? It could even only show if you have more than X no. of tabs in a window. 🙂
Feature requests are allowed on Chromium Bugs. The site is focused on *issues*, not bugs per se. Even people who work at Google for Chrome will often discuss features there.
People at Microsoft use the Chromium issue tracker. Microsoft can implement it first in their browser and then make a commit to Chromium, just like they have done with their desktop browser. Microsoft would probably track it themselves but they also want to add it to Chromium, then they'll have to take a look at the Chromium issues anyway.Ah idk, I have my phone in front of my right now, when i press the tabs button to show the open tabs or open a new tab, I don't know what to do with the search there, like if i type something in there, where it's going to be opened? in the current tab or new tab?
if it's current tab then there is already a search bar and i wouldn't need to use the tabs button to begin with, but if it's going to be opened in a new tab then yeah i can see it will save me 1 tap/touch.
IMO Microsoft should stay competitive and create some unique features into Edge without syncing them back to the Chromium. if they don't do this, as a user it's very hard to be convinced to disable built in Chrome browser which is by default on majority of Android devices and then install Microsoft Edge.
not to mention that Chrome browser is always updated (currently version 80 in line with their desktop stable version 80) but Edge on Android is version 77 (very outdated) and on desktop stable is version 80.
