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In Firefox there was a brilliant extension called TabMix Plus, It had the possibility to Lock and/or Protect tabs.

  • Locked tab: A tab that is prevented from navigating to another page or URL.
  • Protected tab: A tab that is prevented from closing.

My use case is that I often want to keep tabs available and not accidentally close them. E.g. I have a window with many news outlets. These I want always available.

It would also be nice if you could prevent tabs from navigating to another domain. So The Guardian tab stays at guardian.co.uk, if a link points to another domain it could open in a new tab.

More information can be found here:
https://tabmixplus.org/support/viewpage.php?t=3&p=frozen_tabs
They had quite a few innovations while it was still supported in Firefox.
if you're interested you might read the manual for other feature requests for Orion.

Would love to see Protect and Lock implemented in Orion.

    as mentioned in discord, you can create a bookmarklet to partially reproduce this behavior: js
    javascript:window.onbeforeunload = () => { return "hi" }    this would create a warning when you navigate to a doifferent URL, or when you close the tab. the "hi" here is filler text, and most browsers ignore the content of the string returned to prevent it from being used in malicious ways.

    additionally, pinned tabs kinda look similar to this, as you cant close pinned tabs (but they also create many other side effects)

    i'm just providing temporary solutions before a real implementation is done.

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