Hide Chrome tabs/windows, only showing them in Tab Organizer.

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Google Chrome Extension that makes it easier to manage many tabs!

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Hide Chrome tabs/windows, only showing them in Tab Organizer. #100

Open Pauan opened 9 years ago

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Originally reported on Google Code with ID 98

anonymous:
Suggestion: It would be amazing if there was an option to hide tabs / entire windows
but still keep their information in the organizer. For example, I would love to have
a window with a ton of youtube videos that I may refer to often, but I don't have an
interest in constantly having to see them when I'm not using them.

This becomes annoying if you have multiple windows open in the background and every
time you alt tab or click on the Chrome icon in the task bar you have to select which
window you want to open. If I could have an option to make a specific window invisible
until I call it then I would love you forever.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-11-12 23:58:59

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Unfortunately, the only way I can think of doing this is with an NPAPI plugin, and I'm
not sure if that would even work.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-11-13 00:01:01

Pauan commented 9 years ago

I would just like to point out that some window managers already support this functionality.

I'm using GNOME + Metacity, and I currently have 2 Workspaces. The 1st Workspace is
for almost everything, and the 2nd Workspace is for Chrome windows only.

When I use Tab Organizer to select a tab, it automatically brings the window from the
2nd Workspace into the 1st Workspace, which is what I want.

I can then manually move Chrome windows into the 2nd Workspace, so they no longer appear
in the taskbar or in the Alt+Tab menu.

It's unfortunate if Windows or Mac OS X don't support this, but it's nice to know that
at least one window manager for GNU/Linux does this.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-12-02 02:16:14

Pauan commented 9 years ago

I would also like to point out that Mac OS X Leopard has this functionality, and you
can install a Windows program to enable it on Windows:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaces_(software)
http://dexpot.de/index.php

Thus, this appears to be something that should be provided by the window manager, and
not by Tab Organizer.

However, being able to do this automatically and transparently would be convenient,
so I'll leave this bug open, but at a low priority.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2010-12-02 02:26:06

Labels added: Priority-Low
Labels removed: Priority-Medium

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Seems to be blocked on this Chromium bug...

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2011-06-18 00:03:37

Blocked on: #78344

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2011-06-18 00:18:14

Labels added: Priority-Medium
Labels removed: Priority-Low

Pauan commented 9 years ago

This is now possible due to the virtual tab/group system that will be used in version
5.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 22:08:24

Status changed: Delegated
Labels added: Milestone-5

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 22:09:17

No longer blocked on: #78344

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:04:23

Labels added: Type-External
Labels removed: Type-Feature

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:32:45

Labels added: Type-Visible
Labels removed: Type-External

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:36:10

Labels added: Type-Confirmed
Labels removed: Type-Visible

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:39:18

Labels removed: Priority-Medium

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2012-08-27 23:47:28

Status changed: Assigned

Pauan commented 9 years ago

Issue 165 has been merged into this issue.

Reported by pcxunlimited on 2013-02-01 22:11:35