Dec 28 2019 05:01 AM - edited Dec 28 2019 05:10 AM
Tab grouping in Edge insider canary is worse than Tab grouping in Google chrome stable
VS
so in Google chrome, when I go to a website (Any website) and then right-click on a link (could be video, post, picture etc), Google chrome automatically puts my original tab and the new tab into one group and gives it a color.
Then if i open a new website in a third tab, it has no group by default but once i right-click on a link on that website and open it in a new tab, the same grouping happens.
these groups with different colors help us recognize which tabs belong to which website/group and make things easier to manage.
in Microsoft Edge, I have to right-click on each tab and create groups manually.
P.S if you are wondering how to activate Tab Grouping:
Dec 29 2019 02:27 AM
Dec 29 2019 02:34 AM
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That's what I noticed.... Tab grouping should be done automatically.... That's convenient and makes sense.
Yup
Dec 30 2019 12:38 PM
Jan 29 2020 03:25 PM
@HotCakeX I figured a month had gone past and it was time to look at Tab Groups again, so I just enabled them in the latest Dev build.
Well, they are a bit better than they were but it's still a clunky, manual process and Tab Groups don't seem to have any persistence mechanism -- if you close the group, you can't reopen the whole group (just individual tabs from it). You can't save the group as a favorite. If you open a brand new tab with ctrl+T and then go to the same website as one that is in an existing tab group, it doesn't automatically join the group. You can't create a new group until you have a tab open. You can't open a favorite into a tab group.
It seems like a really weird feature.
I'd dismissed it as simply "experimental" last time, since I don't even remember it being announced as a new feature, and it didn't seem to have enough functionality to be useful.
I'd love to hear somewhere from the Edge team explain what their vision is for this feature!
Jan 30 2020 12:38 AM
Jan 30 2020 09:45 AM
@HotCakeX Nope. I stick to just one browser on all my devices/platforms and that's Edge (beta on iPhone, Insider Canary on Mac, Insider Dev on Windows). I haven't used Google Chrome in years.
Jan 30 2020 09:54 AM
Jan 31 2020 04:33 AM
Jan 31 2020 06:01 AM
Feb 07 2020 12:00 PM
So trying in Edge Version 82.0.418.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)
it has some improvements.
Edge still doesn't auto create groups when I right-click on a link on a website and open it in a new tab. But now when I manually create a group for a tab and then open a link from that website in a new tab, Edge puts the newly opened tab in the same group as the origin tab.
at least someone on the team is working on this feature