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I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying

by jbri 16y ago

I had no idea Chrome had that "pin tabs" feature until I read this blog post. My tab bar is suddenly a lot neater without the ever-present Gmail/HN/SO occupying as much space as the stuff I'm actively working on.

jasonkostempski 16y ago
Love the pin feature! Also note, anything you install via the web store can be configured to always open in a pinned tab by clicking on the little wrench when you hover over the app icon. For me it's Mail, Calendar and Grooveshark. Why would I ever close them?
spooneybarger 16y ago
It used to be that you couldnt SOMETHING-w to close a pinned tab. If you did that, it would just gray out and when you clicked on it, it reopened in at the same location. Now, it has to stay open, you can close w/o taking extra actions and it is always using memory for the full page. I tell you all of this so hopefully you can imagine how much better it used to be and I can add you to the campaign to get the old behavior back.
- ydant 16y ago
  For a while there the persistent-but-closed state of pinned tabs was coming in and out randomly for me (based on updates on whichever repository I was on). I agree, the old behavior of having a dual-state pinned tab was VERY nice. I pretty much always have three pinned tabs now (GMail, GMail, GReader), but it used to be a few more. Now if I close GReader, which I do if I'm focusing down on working and know I won't be hitting it, it disappears - instead of that little placeholder. I've been hoping re-enabling that behavior it was an option I just missed somewhere. I guess not.
joshu 16y ago
Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.
- random42 16y ago
  Tooltips on the tab.
  - fredoliveira 16y ago
    Tooltips take about 2 seconds to show on mouse-over. If you had to do it all the time to figure out which account you're looking/peeking at, you'd go nuts.
- ydant 16y ago
  Positioning.
- marknutter 16y ago
  Have them all forward to one gmail account and manage them from there.
  - nollidge 16y ago
    There's a "multiple inboxes" labs feature that would probably come in handy for this.
  - joshu 16y ago
    one's personal and one's my startup. probably not a good idea.

by jbri 16y ago

jasonkostempski 16y ago

Love the pin feature! Also note, anything you install via the web store can be configured to always open in a pinned tab by clicking on the little wrench when you hover over the app icon. For me it's Mail, Calendar and Grooveshark. Why would I ever close them?

spooneybarger 16y ago

It used to be that you couldnt SOMETHING-w to close a pinned tab. If you did that, it would just gray out and when you clicked on it, it reopened in at the same location. Now, it has to stay open, you can close w/o taking extra actions and it is always using memory for the full page. I tell you all of this so hopefully you can imagine how much better it used to be and I can add you to the campaign to get the old behavior back.

ydant 16y ago
For a while there the persistent-but-closed state of pinned tabs was coming in and out randomly for me (based on updates on whichever repository I was on). I agree, the old behavior of having a dual-state pinned tab was VERY nice. I pretty much always have three pinned tabs now (GMail, GMail, GReader), but it used to be a few more. Now if I close GReader, which I do if I'm focusing down on working and know I won't be hitting it, it disappears - instead of that little placeholder. I've been hoping re-enabling that behavior it was an option I just missed somewhere. I guess not.

joshu 16y ago

Me neither. But I have multiple gmail apps open. How do I tell the difference? grah.

random42 16y ago
Tooltips on the tab.
- fredoliveira 16y ago
  Tooltips take about 2 seconds to show on mouse-over. If you had to do it all the time to figure out which account you're looking/peeking at, you'd go nuts.
ydant 16y ago
Positioning.
marknutter 16y ago
Have them all forward to one gmail account and manage them from there.
- nollidge 16y ago
  There's a "multiple inboxes" labs feature that would probably come in handy for this.
- joshu 16y ago
  one's personal and one's my startup. probably not a good idea.