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Convert private tab to a normal tab #2247

Open RubenSmn opened 1 year ago

RubenSmn commented 1 year ago

Motivation

When I'm searching for something I find myself using the private tabs for the initial search, since I don't want to clutter my search history. But sometimes I want the thing that I found being stored in my search history, because I can use the auto completion/suggestion to find that thing again/get back to it. I could copy the link and paste it into a new normal tab but I like shortcuts, in a sense that I can hit a key / click a button stuff happens.

Idea

I would like to suggest that we use the private tab indicator for converting the tab to a normal tab, since it currently has no functionality other than being a indicator. Like I said I don't want to clutter my search history so it should just take the current url and convert it to a normal tab.

UnKnoWn-Consortium commented 1 year ago

Oh I think it is a lovely idea. Maybe we can have a button that does the reverse (Normal to Private) too. Let me see if I have time for this over the weekend.

PalmerAL commented 1 year ago

This does seem like a good idea. It seems like it could be pretty easy to click on the private icon by mistake when you're trying to open the searchbar - it should probably either have a confirmation prompt or be a browser command, like !unprivate, that you type in the searchbar?

RubenSmn commented 1 year ago

I think both the confirmation prompt and browser command should be a thing. Some users might prefer to use the button, but other users, like myself, would like to use the keyboard!