As a very heavy multitasker with thousands of tabs that I need to go through (don't judge me, I think this started when I began to lose my mind from boredom, don't like feeling like I'm not doing anything with my time but a little out of hand now), such a multitasking addict that I had to upgrade to 64GB RAM...these new tab related features are a godsend, I knew this was made for people like me immediately.
I feel like it's Christmas, thank you guys really I mean that, it really gets very stressful knowing you have so many tabs you need to clear up and it can really make a big negative impact on your life because you always have that thought that you didn't go through all those tabs and you don't want some interesting website you saved for later years ago to now be gone or those interesting youtube videos to now be deleted. So you really want to get through all those tabs and you can end up putting most other things in life on the back burner until you've checked all those tabs. Oftentimes people say "just bookmark all of those tabs". And they're right, I'm trying to do that more but I think my problem with storing tabs as bookmarks is it's tucked away out of view so I think that leads me to forgetting about them, especially when you're a multitasking addict jumping from one thing to another constantly. Tabs are right there in your face, you know immediately what's most urgent to you at the moment and I don't like the bookmarks sidebar just sitting there limiting my view constantly.
Just taking a quick look at these new tab features what really makes it appealing to me is how I can quickly take a skim through a much larger pool of tabs than what's normally in view in the horizontal tab bar. And going through the horizontal tab bar with the arrows is just pretty 'clunky' to use, which definitely is somewhat of a good thing I suppose so you have time to look through everything carefully but it's nice being able to just quickly skim through tabs for a much quicker overview of what you've been working on, what you may have forgotten about, etc
I haven't messed with the tab listing and tab searching, etc too much just yet but I actually came here because I thought you guys removed those new tab features already and I made an account to ask about that. But now that I look closer it seems you guys changed the icon? My first impression is I really don't like that dropdown arrow icon for such useful tab features, it's easy to overlook that dropdown arrow, like what happened to me. It deserves a prominent icon similar to what it used to have. Had it been this dropdown arrow initially, I don't think I would have ever even found out about these new tab features. It just doesn't make any sense to me to use such a simple, basic icon that is going to lead people to believe it's function is just that, something simple and basic like the other simple icons next to it with simple functions like opening a new tab.
I think 'pulldown' and 'pullup' arrows are needed because right now the tabs just run into the bottom of your browser then just sits there which is going to seem very weird for the average user who is just looking for something as easy to use as possible. You can use the scroll wheel which works fine sure but I'd rather have 'pulldown' and 'pullup' arrows so I'm not straining my fingers so much more than I already am and to help avoid any possible misclicks while using that scroll wheel so much. Much easier to just let that 'pulldown' arrow do it's thing and flow nicely through all those tabs but I know those 'pulldown' arrows sometimes come with their own issues.
I would really like to see some improvements made to the tab searching. Particularly for situations like if firefox or whatever extension decided to send me to the very end of hundreds or thousands of tabs after an update when I'm buried in the middle of them, maybe my place was near a gmail inbox tab but I have multiple other past gmail inbox tabs for the same email now I'm still lost and have to waste time going back to where I was at. Or I'm not so lucky and I have no clue what the exact name of the tabs were that I was last on, now tab searching is pretty useless to me just like that. Maybe adding some search filters like 'date last accessed' could help with that. But when you're able to remember that specific tab you were on or nearby tabs, or tabs you wanted to go back to from months or years ago, maybe skim through all of your youtube videos in tabs, it's definitely a big help.
That 'Close all duplicate tabs' menu item is interesting. I definitely see the use of it because I open duplicate tabs all the time, it could help in getting rid of a good amount of tabs BUT this can also cause disasters because some or a lot of those duplicate tabs could be things like important or interesting articles from months or years ago that the user plans to read in the future when time allows, maybe it's important research or things they were learning about and they happened to open duplicate tabs for those sites. I'm sure many would agree that in general, heavy multitasker or not, no one wants to have to live with the thought that they just lost something that meant a lot to them. And in this case, that option can really do a lot of damage and cause people to lose tabs that meant a lot to them. I'm praying that this menu item at least has a confirmation dialog box and it's one of those things like 'clear history' that can wipe your entire session of hundreds or thousands of tabs that just don't belong anywhere near commonly used menus to me. And sometimes even the confirmation dialog boxes that only require a single click still are not enough because the user might just click whatever option not realizing they clicked the wrong menu item with everything else going on in their life, while being in the moment and being so used to clicking everything where you intended to until you're going a little too fast one day and just running on autopilot almost going through menus.
Also, a small suggestion that us multitaskers desperately need - an open new tab option that DOESN'T send us to the very end of our tabs causing us to lose our place. For years now I've just been having to do a dirty workaround by opening a new tab of the current site I'm on if that's available, would be nice to have a proper button that does that.
Thank you guys for these added tab features, I hope this feedback helps.
