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One possible contributing factor is that the Android app switcher is a cluttered mess. On phones, instead of Chrome having some sort of tab manager in the app,

One possible contributing factor is that the Android app switcher is a cluttered mess. On phones, instead of Chrome having some sort of tab manager in the app, you wind up with one entry in the app switcher for every single tab you leave open as you switch to other apps. The same occurs with the Google search app. So the app switcher becomes more a cluttered stack of browser and search history than a proper app switcher.

bla2 11y ago
I love that feature. I use the web way more than apps, so having web pages in the app switcher is awesome for me. I wish I could have several YouTube app tabs in the app switcher too.
- JohnTHaller 11y ago
  It might be useful if it got it right. Say per-website. Instead you wind up with 10 different Facebook entries - or whatever website you happen to use a lot.
bla2 11y ago
I love that feature. I use the web way more than apps, so having web pages in the app switcher is awesome for me. I wish I could have several YouTube app tabs in the app switcher too.
qubitcoder 11y ago
I actually prefer this feature, and even searched for a similar option in Firefox. Either way, it can be easily disabled in the Chrome settings by toggling the 'Merge tabs and apps' option.
modeless 11y ago
You can disable that in Chrome (which brings back the swipe down gesture to open the tab switcher, which is nice). However, the way the Google Search app interacts with the app switcher and back button is awful and there's no option to fix it. For example, using the app switcher to go back to a voice action result will often re-execute the action. Or sometimes no entry gets added to the back stack, so you can't go back to a results page. Or sometimes clicking something in the results opens Chrome and sometimes it doesn't. I just avoid the search app whenever possible and use Chrome. I could go on about the clusterfuck that is "OK Google", but maybe I should stop now before I get too worked up.
- JohnTHaller 11y ago
  Nice! Thanks for the heads up. I must have missed that when I hunted for it a while back.

bla2 11y ago

I love that feature. I use the web way more than apps, so having web pages in the app switcher is awesome for me. I wish I could have several YouTube app tabs in the app switcher too.

JohnTHaller 11y ago
It might be useful if it got it right. Say per-website. Instead you wind up with 10 different Facebook entries - or whatever website you happen to use a lot.

bla2 11y ago

I love that feature. I use the web way more than apps, so having web pages in the app switcher is awesome for me. I wish I could have several YouTube app tabs in the app switcher too.

qubitcoder 11y ago

I actually prefer this feature, and even searched for a similar option in Firefox. Either way, it can be easily disabled in the Chrome settings by toggling the 'Merge tabs and apps' option.

modeless 11y ago

You can disable that in Chrome (which brings back the swipe down gesture to open the tab switcher, which is nice). However, the way the Google Search app interacts with the app switcher and back button is awful and there's no option to fix it. For example, using the app switcher to go back to a voice action result will often re-execute the action. Or sometimes no entry gets added to the back stack, so you can't go back to a results page. Or sometimes clicking something in the results opens Chrome and sometimes it doesn't. I just avoid the search app whenever possible and use Chrome. I could go on about the clusterfuck that is "OK Google", but maybe I should stop now before I get too worked up.

JohnTHaller 11y ago
Nice! Thanks for the heads up. I must have missed that when I hunted for it a while back.