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Status: Fixed
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Not on Chrome
Closed: May 2016
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OS: All
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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MD history: "Open tabs" could be renamed to "Synced tabs"

Project Member Reported by mgiuca@chromium.org, May 4 2016

Issue description

In MD history, the sidebar has two choices: "History" and "Open tabs". The phrasing "Open tabs" isn't really indicative of what it contains: it could be misinterpreted as either a) "The tabs you currently have open (on this device)" which seems silly because I can already see them, or b) A verb; a button to open a new tab (perhaps show the new tab page).

I think it should read "Other devices", to indicate that this is where you go to see the state of Chrome on your other devices (that it shows the open tabs on those devices is not that important).

While on this subject, "Open tabs" should really have its own URL (like all of the dialogs in chrome://settings) so that a user can bookmark or navigate directly to that tab. Such as chrome://history/devices.
 
Cc: bettes@chromium.org
Components: UI>Browser>History
Labels: Proj-MaterialDesign-WebUI
+bettes@ for input about the wording of the string

In regards to having a separate URL for the Open Tabs page, calamity@ is currently working on a patch to implement this (https://codereview.chromium.org/1932413003/ is kind of the first step).

Comment 2 by bettes@chromium.org, May 11 2016

Summary: MD history: "Open tabs" could be renamed to "Synced tabs" (was: MD history: "Open tabs" could be renamed to "Other devices")
Open tabs is an implementation bug. "Synced tabs" is the language we should use per UI review's feedback. (renaming this bug to reflect that, please)

We deliberated with "other devices" but it didn't explicitly communicate "tabs", "open tabs" was too ambiguous, and anything was too verbose. 

Re: URL
This isn't something we've actively addressed in history but I totally agree: chrome://history/syncedtabs
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Comment 3 by bugdroid1@chromium.org, May 17 2016

The following revision refers to this bug:
  https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/6a0c499c0a938097c06b1c6aef62191f6ca5fe21

commit 6a0c499c0a938097c06b1c6aef62191f6ca5fe21
Author: tsergeant <tsergeant@chromium.org>
Date: Tue May 17 07:28:06 2016

MD History: Rename "Open Tabs" to "Synced Tabs"

This change is based on feedback from UI.

BUG= 608973 

Review-Url: https://codereview.chromium.org/1980293002
Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#394075}

[modify] https://crrev.com/6a0c499c0a938097c06b1c6aef62191f6ca5fe21/chrome/app/generated_resources.grd

Status: Fixed (was: Assigned)

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