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Steps:

  1. Open vertical tabs
  2. Command+click a tab

Expected:
Selects the tab (e.g. highlight) but doesn't activate it

Actual:
Activates the tab

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I would like to be able to multi-select tabs in the vertical tab side bar, so that they can be manipulated in bulk:

  • Closing multiple tabs after selection
  • Moving multiple tabs into a single position
  • Moving multiple tabs to a new window
  • Copying the urls of multiple tabs

In addition to command+click, selection like shift-command-up/down and shift-up/down should be supported. Behavior here should match lists like finder.

I have an unlisted chrome extension that does this, so happy to share that + advice on implementation, but manipulating tabs this way should be built-in-functionality.

    a year later

    +1 in support of tab selection for vertical and horizontal tab layouts.

    Having the ability to multi-select/ shift-select tabs then move them to new windows or existing windows was an action I used daily within Safari. I've since moved to Orion RC as my daily driver but this would make tab multi-tasking much smoother.

    Here's an example of the feature working in Safari:

      Turns out my tab organizer can work in orion now! There's some bugs to flesh out, but if/when I get those done I'll share a link.

        6 months later

        Probably the main reason I’m not using Orion, tbh.

          2 months later
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            25 days later

            I think it would be nice to add a copy all tabs feature. Perhaps to select all/ multiple tabs with CMD+Click or Shift+Click. This will make it easier to transfer multiple tabs from one window to another, or from incognito to regular and the converse. Low priority since I don't think it'd be used much, but good QOL feature

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                2 months later

                How many engineering ours would tab shift-clicking take? Safari has this and it threw me off.

                I can possibly support funding some eng hours towards implementing this.

                I started using Orion today and love it so far! I'm even starting to migrate my bookmarks and tabs step-by-step. Stumbled upon this missing feature though and would be highly requesting it as well, as I use this daily in my workflow. Apparently Safari uses it now as well, and the Sidebery extension for Firefox has this feature too.
                I love how Orion made vertical tabs a default option in their browser, so I'd love to keep using it instead of installing an extension just for this feature.

                13 days later

                ability to select more than one tab when performing operations on tabs such a moving and deleting. Safari already implements this and there is a very standard UX for multi selection in iOS.

                closing and moving multiple tabs is fast and efficient, and it is also expected behaviour from a modern mobile browser. attached image shows the experience on Safari

                  druckqsatch changed the title to Multi-select tabs on mobile .

                    • Llaiz

                    • Post #99

                    Hey! Thanks for the suggestion. There's currently a feature disparity between List and Grid tab views. You can multi-select tabs in the list view. This could work as a workaround while this feature is being implemented for the grid view as well.

                    However, only the grid view allows you to reorder your tabs by dragging.

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                        laiz thanks for your response! unfortunately i’m not able to toggle list view on the iPad, is there a way to do that?

                        • laiz replied to this.

                            • Llaiz

                            • Post #102

                            druckqsatch
                            Ah, that could indeed be a limitation of the iPadOS version. I unfortunately don't have an iPad to test. Nevertheless, both tab display modes should support both dragging to reorder and selecting multiple tabs for mass operations. Let's hope that shortcoming is addressed soon.

                                7 days later

                                • dannb

                                • Post #103

                                Adding my voice to the chorus of people who would love this feature. For me specifically, I want to be able to select multiple tabs and then drag them out of the tab bar to move them to a new window.

                                  10 days later

                                  For whatever it's worth at this point, I'll chime in as well and say that I would definitely be using Orion for my daily driver browser if not for this missing functionality. I love Orion in every other way, but multi-selecting and moving tabs in sets is such a major part of my workflow that it negates almost everything else. Hoping that one day I update and see that the feature's been introduced.

                                  18 days later

                                  This is my first time contributing to a project. If anything is missing or not detailed enough, please let me know.

                                  I would love the ability to select multiple tabs for quick bulk rearranging, closing, pinning, and bookmarking. This would significantly speed up workflows for people with many open tabs, extensive searches, or (in my case) managing numerous systems and software.
                                  As I have only been using Orion for a week, I may have not discovered/enabled the feature yet.

                                  Personally, I use the sidebar to manage my tabs. The biggest slowdown for me is having to move each tab individually to establish a logical order or to group related tabs side by side.

                                  In other browsers (Brave/Safari/Chrome/Firefox), the user is able to select multiple tabs by pressing CMD + left mouse button (or shift + left mouse button for selecting all tabs in between the first and last selected tab) on them. Afterwards, the user can move the tabs, or do bulk actions via the context menu like duplicating, bookmarking, etc...

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