Tab groups - blessing or curse?

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Yes, lately. But they annoy me regularly.

  1. Why is “not in a tab group” a thing? Isn’t the unnamed group… a group? It should be a group and sync like all the others.
  2. If I’m inside a named group and I click a link in another application, why does it open a new window? (I think, see #1.)
  3. I’d probably skip the current incarnation of Groups if I could just have tree-style tabs.

Then we have Profiles, iCloud Tabs, and Shared with you. Too many “features” if you ask me.

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Related: Young people have to be taught to use document folders

Maybe not, if my comment here turns out to be accurate.

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I like the idea of a default, synced tab group.

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Not sure. Folders are great for project management.

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  1. Why is “not in a tab group” a thing? Isn’t the unnamed group… a group? It should be a group and sync like all the others.

  2. If I’m inside a named group and I click a link in another application, why does it open a new window? (I think, see #1.)

Yes, this is my issue as well. I usually search the web by pulling down on the Home Screen and writing the search query directly there and open it up in Safari and then, even though the Personal tab group is tied up to the Personal Safari Tab Group it still opens the query in a blank Safari page outside any tab groups, so I have to move it to the tab group afterwards.

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Yes, exactly. I want the “default” tab group in any given profile to sync.

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I was actually thinking of macOS when I said my bit. On the iPad it’s even worse because you may not even notice you have a new window for some time after it is created. At least on the Mac you have a sporting chance to see it right away.

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I searched for “Arc” in the app store on my phone and got nothing. Do they not have an iOS app?

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It should be showing up. I still use their previous Arc app without the AI stuff for tab syncing and like it better, but they’ve delisted it, sadly.

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Arc doesn’t have an iPad app, only iOS, and it’s (intentionally) very different from the desktop version.

The desktop version is probably my favorite chrome-based browser. But I don’t like that the iOS version is so different, or that there is no iPad version. (I’m following the development of the Orion browser for exactly this reason, though it’s still very buggy for me.)

If I could make Safari behave like (or more like) Arc in terms of profiles/tabs/groups, I’d be a very happy person.

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Ah. I saw that but it looked like a search tool from the name. ie “Arc Search” vs “Arc Browser”. Thx for clarifying.

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