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Status: WontFix
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Closed: Mar 2017
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OS: Linux , Windows , Mac
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Pinned tabs should be in all windows

Project Member Reported by psa@google.com, Mar 10 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/56.0.2924.87 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Pin tab
2. Open new window
3. Pinned tab is not in new window

What is the expected behavior?
That pinned tabs will be pinned on all windows

What went wrong?
Pinned tabs are only pinned to the window they're created in.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 56.0.2924.87  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: 24.0.0.221

I have multiple windows, each for a different workspace and pin things like GMail, Calendar and Hangouts. I'd like those to be on all windows, so I have access to them all the time and don't have to open separate instances for each window.

Optimally, the each pin would be a single instance, so that I can change windows and keep state as well as reducing memory pressure (having 6 copies of GMail open is expensive, memory wise).
 
Components: -UI UI>Browser>TabStrip
Labels: -Type-Bug Needs-Milestone OS-Mac OS-Windows Type-Feature
Thanks for the report.

Considering this as Feature request marking as Untriaged and requesting Dev team to check the issue and update.
Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
There are valid use cases for pinned tabs to be global to all windows, but I believe the more common case is for people to use separate windows for separate meanings, and forcing pinned tabs into all windows would frustrate those people.

While having multiple copies of a particular tab open is more expensive in terms of memory, it at least allows people to manually set up a workflow that duplicates their pinned tabs.  The reverse, where pinned tabs are pinned in all windows, prevents people who want to opt out from doing so.

Finally, from a UX perspective, having a single tab simultaneously driving an arbitrary number of copied outputs (more than one of which may be visible at once) is a bit confusing, especially if the tab does something like spawn a window-modal dialog.

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