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What does it mean for tab groups to be enforced? Is it popping up messages to shame you into sorting your tabs better? Assuming not, what’s the harm?

• sunaookami 2y ago
  Have you used Chrome for Android? It's absolutely awful and forced me to switch to another browser. All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour. The desktop implementation is good though.
  • kgeist 2y ago
    >All tabs are opened in a tab group, sometimes they will open a new tab group. Very confusing behaviour. So I'm not the only one. I never figured out why sometimes tabs open in an existing group, and sometimes in a new group. Curious to find the spec which explains the behavior...
  • coffeeling 2y ago
    Brave has a setting to enable/disable the feature, idk if standard Chrome has it.
  • KTibow 2y ago
    When clicking or using "open in new tab" from the long press menu (not "open in new tab in group")?
  • Joker_vD 2y ago
    Yeah, it completely ruins the ability to switch to another tab: instead of the tab-switching screen having 6 tab previews, there are now 6 tab group previews with a single tab in each, and those previews are tiny, they are a quarter of the tab preview size. And closing a tab group is, again, more difficult than closing a tab because it has a ... instead of x at the top right corner.
  • danpalmer 2y ago
    I use Chrome on Android and have never noticed a tab group. Admittedly I don't use the browser extensively, but still. On iOS, which seems to be very similar, I've seen the "open in new tab group" button, but never used it.