So What's this 'Grouping Tabs on Edge Chromium'? How did I Start Using it, and Why Should I Continue to?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 20, 2022 8:49pm CST
Microsoft Rewards made me curious about a topic (I think you can see what it is, which I'll discuss later), so I opened up a few tabs for the subjects involved; and somehow, the tabs got 'grouped' 
So I tried to find out 'what I was doing, and whether that was a good- or bad idea.' https://www.ghacks.net/2020/12/05/microsoft-edge-gets-chromiums-tab-groups-feature/
The closest thing I could find was an article (from a couple years ago) talking about 'a feature in Chrome (Google's browser) that was coming to Chromium and Edge (one of which is the one I'm using now ... yeah, "Microsoft Edge; Version 101.0.1210.47 (Official build) (64-bit)").
A little bit of exploring, and I see some of the feature's usefulness: If I'm working with a few-dozen tabs, the 'colored edges of grouped tabs' makes it easier to find the tab I need. Also, right-clicking a tab-group lets me either 'close the whole group (without closing any other tabs in the browser),' 'move the group to a new browser-window,' 'bookmark the group into a new bookmark-folder' or (I find out accidentally when I left-click a tab-group) 'minimize-&-restore the tabs in that group (in case my tab-bar gets too crowded to see which tab is which).'
Any other tab-grouping features I'm missing?
So I tried to find out 'what I was doing, and whether that was a good- or bad idea.' https://www.ghacks.net/2020/12/05/microsoft-edge-gets-chromiums-tab-groups-feature/
The closest thing I could find was an article (from a couple years ago) talking about 'a feature in Chrome (Google's browser) that was coming to Chromium and Edge (one of which is the one I'm using now ... yeah, "Microsoft Edge; Version 101.0.1210.47 (Official build) (64-bit)").
A little bit of exploring, and I see some of the feature's usefulness: If I'm working with a few-dozen tabs, the 'colored edges of grouped tabs' makes it easier to find the tab I need. Also, right-clicking a tab-group lets me either 'close the whole group (without closing any other tabs in the browser),' 'move the group to a new browser-window,' 'bookmark the group into a new bookmark-folder' or (I find out accidentally when I left-click a tab-group) 'minimize-&-restore the tabs in that group (in case my tab-bar gets too crowded to see which tab is which).'
Any other tab-grouping features I'm missing?6 people like this
3 responses
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
28 May 22
I imagine it's the same as 'if you don't group them and reopen them after a few minutes.'
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@jstory07 (139996)
• Roseburg, Oregon
21 May 22
Sometimes I have tabs opened all the way across my screen and have to close them.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
21 May 22
I wonder; does that use as much energy as 'having multiple windows open on the same computer'?
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@Sojourn (13837)
• India
21 May 22
@mythociate Underneath the browser spawns separate 'processes' for the CPU for each window/tab, so they consume the same energy.
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@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
21 May 22
@Sojourn So it might be a good idea to get 'one of those browsers that mines Bitcoin' if you usually have dozens of browser-tabs up anyway,' right?
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