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Safari and Orion only allow one (active) tab to be selected (or, in terms of Chrome Extension Developer docs, "highlighted").

Chrome and Vivaldi allow multiple tabs selection (Cmd or Shift click on tabs to add to selection):

This way I can act on multiple tabs (add to group, close, move to another window, etc).

As an example, one of my little Chrome extensions, Wardrobe, only makes sense if I can select multiple tabs:

https://wardrobe.vlad.studio (please see the video on this page).

The relevant code – chrome.tabs.query({highlighted: true, currentWindow: true} – always returns only one tab in Orion (obviously).

The interface for highlighted inactive tabs is another question :-) Vivaldi's doing it really ugly, unfortunately.

  • Vlad replied to this.

    vladstudio Can you find example in Apple's HIG or in other Apple's apps where multiple tab select operation is enabled?

    • eirk replied to this.
        Merged 2 posts from Allow multiple tabs selection ("highlighting").

          Vlad I do not think this is in any of Apple's apps, nor in the HIG. But, this is a very useful feature that I think should still be added.

              Yes, there seems to be no native components for multiple highlighted tabs. Couple of ideas: show multiple selected tabs as indicator dots:

              or checkboxes:

              or replace favicons with checkboxes:

              As a reminder - user adds a tab to selection by Cmd/Shift click, and user removes selection by clicking any tab without Cmd/Shift (as in other browsers).

              • Vlad replied to this.

                vladstudio Perhaps all tabs would just switch to their selected state, no other indicators needed?

                    @Vlad is that possible? (I somehow thought it is not). If so, problem solved.

                      I suggest having a middleground color between the gray unselected state and the white selected state to be used for the background of the highlighted tabs. this makes it similar to what chromium & variants have.

                        4 days later

                        currently you can not hold shift, command, .. any type of modifier to select multiple tabs and then execute right click actions on them, e.g. closing, bookmarking, reloading, pinning, .. them

                          Merged 2 posts from Select multiple tabs.

                            I strongly agree for adding this feature. It would be a great improvement for Orion, and it will also lower the barrier for people moving from Chrome/Firefox to Orion.

                            a month later

                            So it does look like you can use Command and Shift to select multiple tabs when they're in the sidebar on Safari. Not sure if it's something they added recently, or not.

                              3 months later

                              I think it would be a good idea to be able to select more than one tab at the time by "command clicking" on them in order to close them or relaunch them for example. Right know you can only select one tab at the time.

                                Merged 1 post from Command select multiple tabs to close or relaunch.
                                  6 days later
                                  eirk changed the title to Select multiple tabs for bulk ops (horizontal and vertical) .

                                    AlejandroHernandez "Please" does not help, but supporting a browser by getting Orion+ has a meaningful impact on development speed.

                                        3 months later

                                        Brief Summary
                                        I believe Orion should have the ability to select multiple tabs. This can help users in many ways, for example closing multiple tabs or suspending multiple tabs without manually clicking on each one.

                                        Details:
                                        Click on a tab, then command click or shift click on other tabs. Also, Safari doesn't have that because there is no use to select multiple tabs; tabs in safari are either closing or duplicating, nothing else. Orion however, has muting, suspending and bookmarking. And it is more often that we have to select multiple tabs and run these actions. For my use, I have multiple tab groups with different assignments and homeworks, so after doing a little bit on each assignment, I want to be able to suspend the tabs and open them for another day. This is also benificial to users who have low ram chips, as they can suspend/close multiple tabs at once.