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Google to Remove Chrome “Close Other Tabs” and “Close Tabs to the Right” Options
- yesusalgusti 10y agosad news for me, I use both every single time :(
- sirspacey 10y agoI live and die by these two cmds on my browser. wow. how else do people manage the avalanche of tabs that is browsing today?
- the_rara_avis 10y agoI am a tab hoarder and cannot survive without https://www.one-tab.com/ https://www.one-tab.com/
- marxidad 10y agoI use Tab Wrangler https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjhciaieeiiohknchakcodbpgjnchh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjh...
- ams6110 10y agoAs someone who rarely has more than a few tabs open, I honestly don't get this. What are you doing with so many tabs?
- lparry 10y agoI can't speak for the other commenters, but for me it's because my browsing style was formed back in the days of dialup in Australia. You'd click a link and wait 30+ seconds to have the page load, so instead of staring a loading page you'd open anything that looked interesting in a new tab and continue on the current page, so all the interesting links would be there ready to read without waiting. invariably you wouldn't end up having enough time to read them all, but they piqued your interest enough to open them, so you'd keep them around in the hope that some time later you would. Rinse, lather, repeat, and add in persistent browser sessions between restarts and suddenly you've got 100+ tabs open. The internet is much faster these days, but I still open way more links than I actually have time to read because they sound interesting
- pvinis 10y agoI do that with HN actually. I visit between a few times a day and once every second day. I open whatever I think is interesting. Usually 1-10 tabs every time I go to HN. then I spend time in one or two tabs and read a lot, and close these two. Then I still have 8 tabs open. Second step is repeat. Third step is I have 400 tabs open.
- alphaomegacode 10y agoUse case that I'd guess many on HN would relate to: research and source documents. When researching some topic, it's common to have the source document or documents open and then other tabs where people comment on them. For example, if I'm checking some Python docs, I'll sometimes check how more knowledgeable programmers have solved some edge cases.
- CharlesW 10y agoIt's not hyperbole to say that Tabs Outliner changed my browsing life. Make per-task windows, open and save them at will.
- colept 10y agoI use these everyday, they better have flags to re-enable them. Would be annoying to have to drag a tab to a new window and close the other window.
- wry_discontent 10y agoI don't understand why it's preferable to remove the functionality vs having some better settings that allow me to customize my browser experience.
- BrailleHunting 10y agoBecause "old" is "bad." Throw away everything that makes people happy and start with reinventing the wheel. Also, corporations are slow, unresponsive and inconsiderate because incompetent people can hide and also bureaucracy.
- jessaustin 10y agoIt won't be long before these features are written into an extension. Then the 6% of users who use them can install that extension.
- dragonwriter 10y agoWhat else needs the menu space, since competition for menu space seems to be the sole justification?
- KayL 10y agoSo sad! Don't want to install 2 more plugins. (Chrome doesn't allow more than one top-level menu item in a plugin)
- echelon 10y agoChrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Power user usability features are disappearing. I'm still upset over the removal of the backspace key as "back" navigation. I shouldn't need an extension for this.
- Daviey 10y agoRemoving the ability to view the SSL cert details by clicking the padlock was more annoying... Now you need to navigate through "Developer tools".. WTF
- stymaar 10y ago> Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Well it's clearely been targeting the masses since the beginning.
- darpa_escapee 10y agoWhen Chrome first came out it was applauded for things developers and powerusers cared about: a sandboxed multiprocess approach, a fast JavaScript engine, low memory footprint (this is hilarious in 2017), open-source, a task manager, etc. Remember this guy? [1] It's a 40 page comic book of stuff the masses would never care about. [1] https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html
- Daviey 10y agoISTR they said they didn't care about browsers, but they wanted to show other browsers how they thought it should be done.. with no intent for long-term investment... But as a true weasel I have nothing to reference.
- MaulingMonkey 10y agoMy muscle memory has adjusted to Alt+Left (thanks to their reminder popup.) However, I've moved onto being upset by webcomics that bind the arrow keys without filtering out Alt+Arrows, resulting in an unfortunate combination of history and non-history navigation when attempting to use this shortcut.
- stymaar 10y agoIs that also going to disappear from atom and other electron apps ? Or is this feature re-implemented in electron itself ?
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- maxxxxx 10y ago"close other tabs" is the only option I use. Good to know they are removing it!
- witty_username 10y agoThat can be easily done by dragging the tab into another window and closing the window with the other tabs.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoYes. Easily. Very convenient having three context switches. First you drag out the tab, it maximizes in its own window, you minimize that window, you go back to the other window, close it, then find the window you just created. Much better than two mouse clicks, I'm sure.
- witty_username 10y agodrag tab → alt-tab → alt-f4 It's not as easy as the two mouse clicks though.
- maxxxxx 10y agoSure you can do that. A little clunky though.
- chii 10y agoSwitch to firefox, before google's heavyweight prowess forces it out of the market!
- BrailleHunting 10y agoFirefox on macOS takes an order of magnitude longer to start or do anything than Chromium (Chrome, Opera) or Safari.
- chii 10y agomay be, or may be not. However, does it really matter how long the browser takes to start when you don't ever really close the browser (but only the tabs)?
- BrailleHunting 10y agoA bowser isn't a Sun box. In the real world, browsers and computers restart occasionally. Also, opening a new tab in FF hangs everything for several seconds whereas in Chrome and Safari it's still responsive. It's like FF is doing everything on the main event queue synchronously. Numbers. Even with a top-tier SSD and 16 GiB of fast RAM starting cold (with minimal, necessary plugins): FF: 25s Safari: 13s Chrome: 8s Without plugins, hot restart (absolutely worthless): FF: 5s Safari: 3s Chrome: 2s Using FF UX is like replacing an SSD with an HDD. FF has a nice mission, but it doesn't matter if it's not better than the others, which includes both being usable and fast, in addition to privacy and security. Conclusion: FF is nice in theory, but not currently usable in practice unless you enjoy wasting your time.
- lovich 10y agoI mean, I have my browser and computer restart one 1-2 times a day, and I'd still prefer 25 seconds of startup vs losing functionality like close tabs to the right. I routinely end up with windows with 20-40 tabs when I'm researching an issue and will want to close all but a handful when I've found the information I need. Other people definitely use browsers differently than me, but it's FF is not useless in practice for everyone
- bhaumik 10y agoUsage stats, from article: - Duplicate: 23.21% - Reload: 22.74% - Pin / Unpin tab: 13.12% - Close tab: 9.68% - Reopen closed tab: 8.92% - New tab: 6.63% - Close tabs to the right: 6.06% - Mute tab: 5.38% - Close other tabs: 2.20% - Unmute tab: 1.41% - Bookmark all tabs: 0.64%
- rosser 10y agoI use "Bookmark all tabs" all the time. It's a handy way to capture a subject matter dive for later reference.
- tokenizerrr 10y agoGuess I am both the 2.20% and the 6.06%. Will be really sad to see this go.
- FreakyT 10y agoPart of the 6.06%! I will definitely miss the close tabs to the right option. Interesting that Duplicate is so popular; I've never really used it for anything, ever.
- mos_basik 10y agoI use it a lot when developing - I'll have a tab open and then I'll want another tab of the same URL except for a slightly different port number or hostname. I find it faster to duplicate the tab, make the change and hit enter than to select the URL, open a new tab, paste the URL, make the change and hit enter. I use it so much that I finally tracked down how to do it with the keyboard: Alt-D, Alt-Enter. (Shift focus to the address bar and select its contents; open a new tab with the contents of your selection). Then I started using a computer with a Model M keyboard with no Windows key and had to remap my i3 modifier to Alt on all my computers to fix my muscle memory. Alt-D is the default shortcut for dmenu, i3's default program launcher, and i3 intercepted shortcuts before chrome. So I eventually rebound dmenu to a totally unmnemonic Alt-C... but now I've realized that Vimium allows me to duplicate tabs by typing yyP ("yy" yank contents of address bar to clipboard, "P" open new tab with current contents of clipboard). All this to say, I love my duplicate tabs and these 6%ers who love killing tabs (but just to the right) are weirdos.
- DuanYu 10y agoSo sad, "close tabs to the right" is my favorite.
- DuanYu 10y agoSo sad, "Close Tabs to the right" is my favorite.
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- maxmcd 10y agoIn case it's helpful: in Chrome you can shift-click and select ranges of tabs and close them all at once.
- CharlesW 10y agoWow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?
- abrowne 10y agoI discovered it ... by reading the linked article to the end. Now if they knew about it before I'd like to know how ;-)
- dandrino 10y agoThis has been a pattern for selecting ranges of text for a long time: if you place your cursor in one location and shift click in another it will select all the text in between. Also works with most file browsers. It's not too hard to imagine generalizing this to tabs, too. Bonus fact: the itemized selection done via Ctrl-click also works with tabs. If you use Ctrl-W you can close these tabs, or if you drag one of them you can extract all the selected tabs to a new window.
- dzhiurgis 10y agoSpeaking of patterns, I was pleasantly surprised that cmd+g works same on many browsers as in text editors - navigates to a next search result.
- joelcollinsdc 10y agoThe issue comments say as of 2 days ago they are no longer considering removing CTTR. Whew.
- dbg31415 10y agoDo non-power users even right-click on tabs? Literally what is the issue with having the option if I right-click? Fucking stupid to take it out, it's just another nudge back towards Firefox...
- mercer 10y agoYeah, well, I gave it a shot with some ideological reasons to boot and based on comments here and my own experiences I'll probably move back to Chrome soon. Fourth time this happened. I'm starting to wonder if either there's something wrong with Mozilla as a company, or if they just can't compete with the money Google is throwing at this. Either option is depressing, even if just because I love Tree Style Tabs.
- jredwards 10y agoThere's a chrome extension called 'OneTab' that I tend to use for this purpose anyway. You can whitelist certain websites (for instance, I whitelist email because I want to keep it open and AWS because the login is a pain). Any time I feel like my current stash of tabs is out of control, I hit the onetab button and everything that's not that important gets archived into an html file that's automatically opened in a tab when the button is pressed (so 10+ tabs get archived down into one). This way I can clean up my tab mess without losing anything. https://www.one-tab.com/ https://www.one-tab.com/ (I am not affiliated)
- unnikked 10y agoJust when I started to get used to it! Oh Google!
- KiDD 10y agoI'm pretty upset to hear this... I actually use that feature everyday! I don't care for the keyboard shortcuts very much
- frik 10y agoI want a Ctrl + K shortcut. In IE it dublicated the current tab including the browsing history. It was sooo useful.
- captainmuon 10y agoWhat I'd love though is an option to manage tabs by filter. - Click a button (or press a hotkey). A popup with a list of all tabs appears. - Enter `hackern` (or ny or something similar) to filter the list down to hacker news tabs. - Click Close Selected (you could also do "move to new window"). One day I'm going to write a plugin for this, unless somebody reads this and steals the idea :-)
- gaspoweredcat 10y agowell that settles it, im changing browser
- joshstrange 10y agoWell I hope there is an extension to get those options back as I used them regularly to to "reset" after I've solved a problem or moved on to a new ticket and see I've got some 15 tabs open for research that I no longer need. Really they are removing this and leaving in "Bookmark all tabs"? Are you kidding me, what a stupid thing to leave in if you are so concerned about context menu space...
- stevep98 10y agoI use "bookmark all tabs" quite a bit. If I've got 15 tabs open for research that I want to read later...
- joshstrange 10y agoHmm, interesting way of using it. I've used extensions in the past to save off a group of tabs but I wouldn't want them in my bookmarks as I view them as temporary.
- pvinis 10y agoYea I do that too.. Now I have more than 1000 bookmarks. :(