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Re: Provide different options for sorting favorites - Discussion
Elliot Kirk One option I need is to ensure that even if you sort by name, that all folders sort at the top. I don't want folder mixed in with individual items. I'm guessing there are people with different preferences, so it should definitely be an option (sort folders with items, sort folders to top, sort folders to bottom). But over-all, the things I want and need from favorites and favorites bar are mostly there... drag-and-drop to re-organize, search for an item (I have literally a thousand items, some in folders, some folders nested, some at top level, etc.), and most importantly: when I"m on a page that's in my favorites anywhere, not only should the star light up, but when I open the favorites list, it should be highlighted in that list. As an example: I have a folder with two dozen sites I check daily. I want to easily be able to open favorites and see exactly where I left off, so I can easily click the next. Obviously, I don't want the contents of that folder sorted. Sorting should be on-demand (not automatic), and should be by folder, or at the top level for everything.5.9KViews4likes0CommentsRe: Top feedback summary for October 1
Please read. "MRU" = "Most Recently Used", and it's about the ORDER in which Ctrl-Tab switches tabs. When I hit Ctrl-Tab, I expect to go to the last tab I looked at … the same way Alt-Tab works with apps. I do not expect it to go to "whatever tab is to the right of this tab, whether or not you've actually looked at it recently". MRU Tab Order switching is intuitive and natural. Simply cycling to the right is not nearly as useful once you have more than two tabs open.2.9KViews0likes1CommentRe: Top feedback summary for October 1
icjc2112 Sorry, no, it's not easier to use or understand the way it works. There is absolutely no situation in which the current behavior is "easier to keep track of"... the current behavior is unusable if you have many tabs open, and is only really "usable" if you have only two tabs open. Internet Explorer had the OPTION of MRU tab order switching with Ctrl-Tab. You had to turn it on (it was the default until sometime late in the game). Example: you have four tabs open, but you want to switch back and forth between two of them for reference. It's easy with MRU tab switching... just hit Ctrl Tab once, each time. Done. With the way Chrome and EDGE work, you have to think about which tab you're on, to know how many times to press Ctrl Tab. Open another tab, and the number changes. It's a huge cognative load that makes switching between tabs annoying and difficult. I have decades of muscle memory from using a huge variety of tabbed UIs in Windows, and they all have at least an option, if not a DEFAULT, of Ctrl-Tab switching tabs in Most-Recently-Used order. Just like Alt-Tab switches apps. There is NO EXCUSE for not having this as a feature built in from the very start. A great side-effect of this feature is that when you close a tab, you see the last tab you were looking at... completely expected and natural. The way Chrome and EDGE operate, when you close a tab, you just see the adjacent tab, which might be one you haven't looked at in a while. It's jarring and unexpected. MRU tab switching order with Ctrl-Tab is a REQUIRED BEHAVIOR for a tabbed UI to be useful and functional, and its omission is why I stayed back on IE11 for so long, and why I prefer Firefox to Chrome. EDGE needs this feature, and it needs it sooner rather than later. It should have never been released without it.3KViews0likes6CommentsRe: Top feedback summary for October 1
David Rubino Still waiting for the MUST HAVE feature that allows you to have the option of Ctrl-Tab switching tabs in "Most Recently Used" order... to be consistent with Windows Alt-Tab behavior, and the behavior of Ctrl-Tab in most other tabbed user interfaces, like Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Notepad++, and consistent with the options in Internet Explorer and FireFox. This should be top priority. Lack of this feature is pretty much the only reason I continued to use IE for as long as I did, and the main reason I use FireFox now (because Chrome doesn't have this feature and it makes using multiple tabs really awkward and annoying).11KViews6likes9CommentsRe: Tab behaviour enhancements
sambul95 Your questions and scenarios are all irrelevant. EVERY other tabbed UI (except Chrome) already does this, and they all do it consistently. It makes perfect sense. If you wonder how it works, just use IE, Firefox, Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Notepad++, or any other tabbed application and you can see for your self. If you hold Ctrl down while repeatedly pressing TAB, you cycle through tabs in MRU order. If you lift up the Ctrl key, and then press it down again with TAB, then you have reset the MRU order and start again. It's totally intuitive and obvious, and makes it really easy to navigate. ALT-TAB works the same way for switching apps. THIS IS KNOWN AND SOLVED FUNCTIONALITY. There is ZERO legitimate argument for not providing an option for MRU tab switching order with Ctrl-Tab. Period. Your arguments are pointless, and baseless, and really, the only thing left to be said is WHEN this REQUIRED functionality will be added. The fact that it's missing is, imho, either to be considered a bug, or a usability FAIL.5.9KViews1like0CommentsRe: Tab behaviour enhancements
sambul95 The value of this is immeasurable. I simply can't work with "round robin" style tab switching with Ctrl-Tab... it makes Ctrl-Tab almost completely USELESS. MRU is the only logical, efficient, and sane method of tab management, period. If I close a tab, I should see the last tab I was looking at, not the jarring re-appearance of a tab I haven't looked at for a while just because it was "adjacent'. And If I am Looking at one tab, switch to another, Ctrl-Tab should take me immediately back to the tab I was just looking at. And Ctrl-Tab should then allow me to easily switch back and forth between those two tabs, even if they're not adjacent. And if I want to see the tab I was looking at before that, Ctrl-Tab-Tab, and boom, I'm there. It's consistent with the way EVERY OTHER interface works... from Alt-Tab, to Ctrl-Tab in Firefox, IE, Notepad++, SQL Server Management Studio, Visual Studio, etc, etc. Not having it in EDGE is just … ridiculous. Frustrating. Infuriating. It slows me down and makes navigating more than two tabs PAINFUL. There's zero excuse for not providing this as an option. I cannot fathom how anyone can do any real work in a tabbed UI without MRU tab-switching.10KViews1like13CommentsRe: Tab behaviour enhancements
antlane Absolutely. This is REQUIRED for my workflow, and it's ingrained in my muscle-memory. I need Edge to behave consistently with Alt-Tab when switching tabs with Ctrl-Tab. I need Edge to behave consistently with IE (which had this option), FireFox (which has this option), and Visual Studio, SQL Server Management Studio, Notepad++ (all of which default to this behavior). MRU tab-switching option for Ctrl-Tab is a MUST-HAVE feature for me, and the lack of it was the single biggest reason I wasn't a huge EDGE user previously.11KViews5likes0Comments
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