Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge Tabs and Apps”

Re:Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge... by EpicEng on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:42AM (#11914245)

Good riddance. Maybe others found this useful, I don't know, but all it did for me was conflate two disparate concepts (really; tabs are not apps) and cause clutter in what was a useful UI. It was the first thing I disabled after switching back to Android from iOS.

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Re:Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge... by reidrac on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:10AM (#11914529)

I liked it. It felt quite natural to look for the pages in my app list, instead of getting to the browser and then switch tabs. I guess I tend to use more websites than native apps.

Also the new (old?) behaviour keeps the last tab open when I close the browser, which is annoying and a step backwards in usability. It doesn't seem to be possible to change this.

In my opinion it would have been better to leave the functionality and just turn it off by default.

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Re:Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge... by EpicEng on Thursday June 16, 2016 @03:21AM (#11914567)

My issue is that I tend to have a lot of tabs (> 5) open at once. Because apps and tabs were combined, switching between apps became a chore as I had to swipe through so many tabs. I like keeping them separate.

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Re:Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge... by reustle on Thursday June 16, 2016 @01:53AM (#11914279)

I got pretty comfortable with it. If I opened up hacker news, then the messenger app, then reddit, it stayed in that order which felt very natural.

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Re:Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge... by DavidTWco on Thursday June 16, 2016 @02:14AM (#11914345)

I found it particularly helpful when combined with the quick-switching between apps in Android N.

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Re:Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge... by thechriswalker on Thursday June 16, 2016 @07:50AM (#11915469)

I did not like the feature and did not use it.

That doesn't make it OK to remove a feature that people did use and like.

That feels like a bit of a slap - what if they decide to remove some other feature I like but other people don't use (e.g. the always allow zoom feature which I would not like to go without)

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Re:Chrome 51 Arrives on Android, Officially Kills Off “Merge... by EpicEng on Thursday June 16, 2016 @11:47AM (#11916886)

Well, I can commiserate there. I'm currently delaying my chrome update to avoid losing backspace functionality.

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