Pressing ⌘+W on pinned tab should suspend it

Evert

Currently pressing ⌘+W on a pinned tab doesn't really do anything except send it to the background. On the YouTube website that results in the current video showing up in PiP mode on the next tab.

When I press ⌘+W on a YouTube video that happens to be playing in a pinned tab, I expect the tab and the video to actually close. In other words, to be unloaded. Which in the case of pinned tabs is the same as suspending said tab, I believe.

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mrmanafon

I agree, this is a behaviour of Zen and Arc as well, and they did it intentionally, which I think is insane.

The whole purpose of pinned tabs is to have an easily accessible perma-bookmark. This means that users are likely to put super heavy websites in there - slack, youtube, twitch, notion, jira, teams. Which makes the need for suspension even more drastic.

When it was first announced in Arc, I had hoped that pins were basically PWAs that are pinned, which would mean they can be safely suspended, while still receiving notifications etc. I had hoped that the only additional mechanism will be a quicker startup/resume optimization.

In reality all the browsers ~~copied~~ cargo culted the worst version of this feature - normal tabs that you can’t suspend.

With that said, I don’t think Orion can change it, sounds like a Webkit thing to me?

goulot_situez

I disagree.
I press ⌘+W when closing tabs (I'm done with) and may unintentionally do it on a pinned tab by mistake. Most of my pinned tabs are Web apps I intend to always keep active (Slack, Fastmail…) and for which I absolutely need desktop notifications. This is critical for my work.

So unless the notifications are working in suspended tab, I certainly don't want ⌘+W to suspend pinned ones.

Yannick

Yes. Pinned tabs are designed not to be closed intentionally.Instead, use the suspend feature to prevent PiP from activating while keeping the tab pinned.

mrmanafon

Yannick Indeed, manual suspension works as described - it suspends the web content so that everything, including any videos or pips will stop.

For me this is a great solution - the other browsers I mentioned do not have this feature.