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MicrosoftDiscussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close
Sorry in advance for the bad grammar, I have limited time today.
Two parts to this reply: Keeping all my tabs in a window, and keeping my tabs open because they are doing something.
Part 1: I always keep all my tabs in one window, but why is this? I could have a window for my scheduling, (list of tasks and calendar) a window for my music and entertainment (Pandora and Youtube) and a window for my each of my current projects. I keep everything in the same window because it's much easier and faster to jump between tabs than it is to jump between windows. There are two reasons for this. First, multiple windows means going to a tab is a two-step process. Click the window you want, then click the tab. However, more importantly, in my opinion, is the issue of identification. Windows of Edge can either look like this:
or like this:
Or maybe even like this:
The issue is that tabs have favicons, making it easy to know the contents of every tab. Windows have the application's favicon, and the text depends on which tab is open in that window. Why is this important for setting aside tabs? Well, a large part of the reason why Set Aside Tabs was "all or nothing" for me was that I kept all my tabs together in an "all or nothing" window.
Part 2: why the "close all tabs" warning is important. I am not concerned about losing all my tabs and not being able to reopen them. If I close all my tabs then reopen microsoft Edge, I can simply right click in the tab bar, choose "reopen closed window", and get all my tabs back. If that's too much of a chore, I can just hit ctrl+shift+t on my keyboard. The real reason why I don't want to close my tabs by accident is that some of my tabs are doing important things. If I have a 3 paragraph Amazon review in a tab, and the tab is closed, restoring the tab does not bring back my draft. When all my tabs close unexpectedly, I lose any in-progress downloads, music, video streams, and text box contents. The URL isn't the important part.
I have to get to class now, have a great rest of your day!
WolfIcefang If you are referring to what I think you are then I've suggested this feature multiple times in different places. I would like the option to have only the icon pop up in the horizontal tabs like I mentioned similar to verticle tabs how they only show the icon. and then when you click on an icon (the thumbtack pin) you would get the icon plus the text in horizontal tabs like in verticle tabs currently on canary and developer edge.
- well, then you are one of the lucky users that would check the box that says always close all tabs then if this feature is added (which it should be).
