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Discussion - Set Aside Tabs and Warn on Close
Yannick Plavonil wrote:How could you justify to bring back the Set Aside Tabs when only a very small percentage of people used it. What's the point now that we have collections ?
First of all, it's not clear to me that "only a very small percentage of people used it (Set Aside Tabs)." How did you come to this conclusion? There seems to be a lot of interest in it, from my viewpoint. The simple fact that Elliot Kirk opened a separate thread on this topic, saying "many of you are asking for the Tab Set Aside feature..." says a lot about that.
Secondly, if you don't use the feature, why are you concerned about Microsoft bringing it back? This sounds like a case of, "I don't have a need for it, so no one should have it." How about, "I don't have a need for it, but obviously a bunch of other folks do." I've always failed to understand the viewpoint of "I don't need it, so no one needs to have it."
Regards,
Dan
Dan_AI4GK wrote:
Yannick Plavonil wrote:How could you justify to bring back the Set Aside Tabs when only a very small percentage of people used it. What's the point now that we have collections ?
First of all, it's not clear to me that "only a very small percentage of people used it (Set Aside Tabs)." How did you come to this conclusion? There seems to be a lot of interest in it, from my viewpoint. The simple fact that Elliot Kirk opened a separate thread on this topic, saying "many of you are asking for the Tab Set Aside feature..." says a lot about that.
Secondly, if you don't use the feature, why are you concerned about Microsoft bringing it back? This sounds like a case of, "I don't have a need for it, so no one should have it." How about, "I don't have a need for it, but obviously a bunch of other folks do." I've always failed to understand the viewpoint of "I don't need it, so no one needs to have it."
Regards,
Dan
It's obvious, you can refer to the various market share usage statistics and you will see how little Edge classic was used by people. and among those people, probably not all of them were using set tabs aside feature.
- "[A]nd among those people, probably not all of them were using set tabs aside feature."
Again, there is no empirical data. You're making an assumption that Set Aside Tabs was used extremely infrequently. Again, the fact that Elliot created a thread devoted to it shows that they received a significant number of requests.- Spoiler
Dan_AI4GK wrote:
"[A]nd among those people, probably not all of them were using set tabs aside feature."
Again, there is no empirical data. You're making an assumption that Set Aside Tabs was used extremely infrequently. Again, the fact that Elliot created a thread devoted to it shows that they received a significant number of requests.You realize there are billions of people in the world and this is a topic that has maximum 50 users commenting on it.
what I said was logical, with proof.
https://netmarketshare.com/browser-market-share.aspx?
Edge had 5% market share and that's all because it was forcefully preinstalled on Windows 10.
lots of those 5% were users who used Edge legacy to download Chrome or Firefox to get back to their works and data.
also it's wise to assume not 100% of that 5% were using set tabs aside feature.
everything is changed with the new Chromium-based Edge of course.
- HotCakeX, I'm not going to belabor the point, but I believe that Microsoft is writing for the 5% of users that employ their browsers. So the 95% is sort of irrelevant. Also, the contributors here are even a smaller subset, comprising Chromium Edge insiders, for the most part--an almost infinitesimal number of users. The number of requests for Set-aside Tabs that Microsoft has received is significant enough to have opened a discussion on that specific topic. That's the point I'm trying to make: nothing more, nothing less.