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Introducing Workspaces in Edge | New feature
Workspaces
you can create multiple Workspaces in Edge, have tabs in each of them, and when you close all Edge windows and open Edge again, you still have your workspaces, it's like a combination of tabs set aside + tab groups + pinned tabs
experimental feature in canary, probably CFR. works really well so far
- So, late July and I still don't see Workspaces in my Canary build. 🤔
- A real innovation of the modern OS in general would include this concept.
- Wow Cool feature brought by Edge
- Very Nice feature on Edge .
- Thanks for sharing this, since it's not in my Dev channel yet. There is a "workspaces" feature in Opera and I always thought it was brilliant. I can't wait to have something similar in Edge. I mean, it's like virtual desktops for your browser!
JordanQ wrote:
Thanks for sharing this, since it's not in my Dev channel yet. There is a "workspaces" feature in Opera and I always thought it was brilliant. I can't wait to have something similar in Edge. I mean, it's like virtual desktops for your browser!you're welcome, yeah it's something like that.
While this feature has potential in the future, it currently isn't much more than a 'saved / named' window feature (rather than proper workspaces).
Also, unlike legacy "Set-aside tabs", it does not yet save either tab back/forward history nor the current scroll position on each tab once the Edge is closed. Scroll position is sometimes saved if Edge is still running when you re-open the window (see below for details).
(If you quit Edge with the 'workspace' window open or Edge crashes, both of those properties are restored. That makes me think that once a workspace window is closed by the user, the tab urls might be just stored internally as something like 'hidden' favorites.)
These are probably part of the reason it isn't yet widely available even in Canary without using command-line flags - still very early days.
Once the user closes a workspace window, during the same session, certain properties are...
Spoiler- Never restored (if window is re-opened during same session):
- Window position on screen (unless window was re-sized by the user)
- Restored during the same Edge session:
- Tab order
- Selected tab in the window
- Back/forward history for each tab
- Window size
- Window position on screen (only if user re-sized window)
- Horizontal / vertical tab preference for that window
- Sometimes restored during the same Edge session:
- Scroll position of content of each tab (only sometimes! maybe only if the tab is still cached in memory? Only if the page contains HTML anchor tags?)
- Maybe restored?:
- Form data
[as of Version 92.0.878.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)]
Once the Edge is closed and re-launched, certain properties are...
Spoiler- Never restored (after Edge is closed and re-launched):
- Window size
- Window position on screen
- Horizontal / vertical tab preference for that window
- Scroll position of content of each tab
- Back/forward history for each tab
- Form data (not tested yet; just an educated guess)
- Restored (after re-launch):
- Tab order
- Selected tab in the window
[as of Version 92.0.878.0 (Official build) canary (64-bit)]
- Never restored (if window is re-opened during same session):
- Ugh, Bookmarks, Collections, Set Aside, and now: Workspaces.
The problem is not that we do not have ways to manage tabs. The problem is that people can not work through all the tabs.
Can not find that tab? Who needs to search among open tabs? Just Google it with bing and open the same tabs again.
Finished research on the topic? Leave the tabs open. One day Edge will crash and erase everything. Again who needs that search and ways to order tabs, and highlight tabs negative keywords.
Why build better infrastructure for extensions? Who needs plugins suggestions as MS Edge did. No one.
I love you all people, but man, God bless you. I have used Vivaldi's session, Chrome and Edges' tab group, titled window, and Opera's workspaces. I have to say Opera's workspaces feature has best user experience. Now, Edge has dockable history, dockable bookmark, dockable download and sidebar search, maybe a real sidebar is needed to put these all together.
Jeffz9527 wrote:I have used Vivaldi's session, Chrome and Edges' tab group, titled window, and Opera's workspaces. I have to say Opera's workspaces feature has best user experience. Now, Edge has dockable history, dockable bookmark, dockable download and sidebar search, maybe a real sidebar is needed to put these all together.
You haven't tried Edge's workspaces yet. tab groups are just to color tabs for better visibility and finding them. workspaces are very different.
window naming is meh. never used it, don't know why it's even there. it's too manual and time consuming for me that opens and closes windows constantly.
HotCakeX Actually, I did use Edge's workspaces feature since I know it. I moved my tabs from another user profile to a workspace named "Life", so I don't have to maintain 2 sets of extensions, adblock rules, proxy rules. English is not my first language, so let me try again
. Edge's workspace is a shortcut to open your named windows which can constantly and automatically save. Before it, you open a window, open some tab, close the window, you lost them( You still can find them in history's recent closed section)I mixed two things in last post:
1) All mainstream browser made some effect to make tabs better, but currently, opera's workspaces has the best user experience, because Opera has a sidebar, when you add a workspace, a new icon appeared, so you only need 1 click switch between workspaces, the whole browser has only 1 window in taskbar.
2) Edge need a sidebar to put all dockable thing(bookmark, history, download, sidebar search) together, also, workspaces feature can leverage it to get better user experience.
Hopefully, I made myself clear.
