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kopoku
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May 12, 2020

Discussion - Getting back to websites important to you

Hi, 

 

Thank you all for the insightful discussion about your use cases of the Legacy Microsoft Edge's Tab Set Aside feature and confirmation prompt when closing a browser window. 

 

In that thread, some of you have mentioned how seamlessly Collections could work with the Legacy Microsoft Edge's Tab Set Aside feature while others see these features as having distinct use cases. 

 

We continue to explore how we can improve existing features and their integration with one another to help you pick up where you left off with your browsing.

 

To get a better understanding of your scenarios, I have a few questions I'd like to ask:

  1.  How many groups of tabs did you have set aside in the Legacy Microsoft Edge?
  2. How long did you typically keep these groups of set aside tabs?
  3. Are you aware of or have you used the Recently closed tabs experience which is accessible in the More menu (…) and in the full page History experience (Edge 83 Canary/Dev/Beta)?
    1. Recently closed tabs automatically saves your 25 most recently closed tabs and browser windows with their tab history for 2 browser sessions. When you restore a recently closed tab or browser window, it is removed from Recently closed. You can use the Ctrl (CMD on macOS) + Shift + T shortcut to quickly restore closed tabs or browser windows. 
    2. What do you think about the Recently closed tabs experience?

  4. Do you use the "Continue where you left" setting (edge://settings/onStartup) which automatically restores the tabs from your last active browser window on browser restart? Why or why not?

  5. How do your use cases differ amongst Tab Set Aside, Collections, and Recently closed tabs? 

 

Regarding some of your specific feedback: 

  • The tabs you set aside in the Legacy Microsoft Edge were migrated to the "Other favorites" folder during the first run experience. 
  • Collections created using the "Add all tabs to a new Collection" are named using a date-time format e.g. Month Day, Year. 

 

Thanks, 

Kofi from the Edge Localization, Collections, and History teams

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