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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2017
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OS: Android
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Add support for "Close other tabs" on Android

Reported by jidanni@gmail.com, Mar 2 2017

Issue description

Steps to reproduce the problem:
There is only close all tabs. You also need close other tabs.

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
No menu item to close the other tabs.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 58.0.3019.3  Channel: n/a
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Comment 1 by jidanni@gmail.com, Mar 2 2017

User can only choose close all tabs, then find the former top most tab from history and open it again.
Cc: tedc...@chromium.org klo...@chromium.org
Labels: -Type-Bug Type-Feature
Status: Available (was: Unconfirmed)
Cc: rolfe@chromium.org
Owner: k...@chromium.org
Summary: Add support for "Close other tabs" on Android (was: Needl close other tabs on Android)
Phones support "Close all tabs" from the tab switcher, tablets support it by long pressing on the X button.

The problem with Close Other Tabs on phones is that the tab switcher doesn't really do a good job visually of letting you know what the current tab is.  This option would make more sense on Tablets, but would take some explorations around supporting this on phones (maybe we could add long press on the X button in the tab switcher on phones).

Adding some product and UX folks to weigh in whether this is something we should support.

Comment 4 by rolfe@chromium.org, Mar 15 2017

Cc: cl...@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Available)
+cleer as FYI

Going to mark this as WontFix for now. Closing all but the current tab hasn't come up as a very common case on mobile. (You might be a rare one jidanni!) However, it's an interesting concept to consider as a part of a broader re-evaluation of how tabs are managed. We're trying to keep things light for users so that possibly you don't ever feel like you need to close all the other tabs. Thanks for the suggestion!

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