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I'd use Pinning a lot more if it didn't shrink the tab down to its Favicon size. Wish it would also prevent you from closing the tab.

by pkamb 10y ago

madgar 10y ago
Interestingly, I'd never use pinning if it didn't shrink the tab down. I never have any trouble with keeping my tabs ordered, so the main value pinning gives me is the shrinking.
- ysavir 10y ago
  Same here. The shrinking keeps my tabs so much more organized.
dajohnson89 10y ago
+1. I just now found out about it. Tried it, saw the tab reduced to a favicon, and will probably never use it till that's fixed. Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message.
- wutbrodo 10y ago
  > Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message. The pinned tab for GMail has a blue dot for "attention needed". Though this is suboptimal because I think it represents both IMs and new mail.
  - Zarel 10y ago
    Are you sure that's not an extension? On macOS, at least, it's a very subtle gradient color change animation that's hard to notice.
    - lexicality 10y ago
      I get a blue dot on my mac
- fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
  The "reduce to favicon" is my favorite part of pinned tabs: I pin all my slack tabs and other messaging tabs and just watch for the blue dot indicating activity and/or the red circle that indicates a private message (on slack)
wutbrodo 10y ago
FYI: You can still close the tab, just not by clicking the (no longer visible) X. This may not fit your use case, but then again it might (I can't remember the last time I closed a tab by clicking instead of with ctrl+w).
- Uw7yTcf36gTc 10y ago
  he is saying that he wishing pinning tabs _prevented_ the tab from being closed (as opera does). I have closed pinned tabs my mistake before (ctrl+w too many times) and I agree.
  - wutbrodo 10y ago
    Oh, my mistake
dlubarov 10y ago
Also there are some sites that don't work well with pinning, including G Suite. I'd love to have pinned tabs for work email, work calendar, personal email, and personal calendar. But every time my session expires, they all get redirected to login pages.

I'd use Pinning a lot more if it didn't shrink the tab down to its Favicon size. Wish it would also prevent you from closing the tab.

by pkamb 10y ago

I'd use Pinning a lot more if it didn't shrink the tab down to its Favicon size. Wish it would also prevent you from closing the tab.

madgar 10y ago

Interestingly, I'd never use pinning if it didn't shrink the tab down. I never have any trouble with keeping my tabs ordered, so the main value pinning gives me is the shrinking.

ysavir 10y ago
Same here. The shrinking keeps my tabs so much more organized.

dajohnson89 10y ago

+1. I just now found out about it. Tried it, saw the tab reduced to a favicon, and will probably never use it till that's fixed. Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message.

wutbrodo 10y ago
> Especially with how a Gmail Tab blinks when I get a hangout message. The pinned tab for GMail has a blue dot for "attention needed". Though this is suboptimal because I think it represents both IMs and new mail.
- Zarel 10y ago
  Are you sure that's not an extension? On macOS, at least, it's a very subtle gradient color change animation that's hard to notice.
  - lexicality 10y ago
    I get a blue dot on my mac
fiddlerwoaroof 10y ago
The "reduce to favicon" is my favorite part of pinned tabs: I pin all my slack tabs and other messaging tabs and just watch for the blue dot indicating activity and/or the red circle that indicates a private message (on slack)

wutbrodo 10y ago

FYI: You can still close the tab, just not by clicking the (no longer visible) X. This may not fit your use case, but then again it might (I can't remember the last time I closed a tab by clicking instead of with ctrl+w).

Uw7yTcf36gTc 10y ago
he is saying that he wishing pinning tabs _prevented_ the tab from being closed (as opera does). I have closed pinned tabs my mistake before (ctrl+w too many times) and I agree.
- wutbrodo 10y ago
  Oh, my mistake

dlubarov 10y ago

Also there are some sites that don't work well with pinning, including G Suite. I'd love to have pinned tabs for work email, work calendar, personal email, and personal calendar. But every time my session expires, they all get redirected to login pages.