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Status: WontFix
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Last visit > 30 days ago
Closed: Oct 2017
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OS: Linux
Pri: 2
Type: Feature



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Enable profile-windows navigation, ie. feature

Reported by harald.r...@gmail.com, Aug 16 2017

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/60.0.3112.78 Chrome/60.0.3112.78 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Because extensions are only installed in one profile, they cannot navigate cross-profile, I think. This problem therefore has to be addressed by the browser itself.

On macOS, there is a Windows and a People menu
On Linux there are only the profiles dropdown and the settings menu in upper right

It is not possible to see how many windows a profile has open, if any, what profile a window belongs to, how tabs are distributed across profiles and windows

There should be a menu hierarchy, originating from the upper right of every browser window addressing the following needs:
Listing of all profiles
Indicating which profiles has windows open
Windows somehow associated with their profiles
Tabs somehow associated to window and profile, indicating audio and high cpu (ie. video) activity
This needs to be scrollable should it not fit the display height

What is the expected behavior?
Easily see what profiles has windows open, all tabs open anywhere

What went wrong?
Mavigation difficult

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 60.0.3112.78  Channel: n/a
OS Version: 
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 26.0 r0
 
Components: -UI UI>Browser>Profiles
Labels: -Type-Bug Needs-Triage-M60 M-62 Type-Feature
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
As per the above description, marking this as a Feature Request and changing the status to Untriaged, as the reporter wants menu hierarchy of all the profiles on Chrome.

Thanks..
Owner: ew...@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
Eli, please take a look. Do we have any similar features planned?

Comment 3 by ew...@chromium.org, Aug 17 2017

Cc: ew...@chromium.org
Components: -UI>Browser>Profiles
Owner: rpop@chromium.org
Status: Available (was: Assigned)
Thanks for your feedback and suggestion. The profile chip in the upper-right-corner of each window does already make it possible to distinguish which profile a given window belongs to. You can also click on that button to see a list of all profiles, and quickly switch to any other profile.

However, adding in window and tab information in the same space would make the surface too complicated and busy from a UI perspective. It's not the right surface to put all the info you've listed.

+rpop in case you want to look at the specific feedback that Linux doesn't have a "Window" menu item like Mac does. I would otherwise close this out.
The profile chip already needs love because it is not scrollable, so on Linux it is clipped to the browser window and on macOS it disappears beyond the bottom edge of the display.

The minimum fix would be to make it scrollable and have an initial group of the profiles that currently have open windows, with a separator followed by all other profiles.

Within a profile one could then use a clever browser extension for navigation

Profiles are about cookie spaces, logging in multiple times to the same site or privacy separation between different sites. When you have more than 30 profiles, Chromium isn't a lot of fun.

Comment 5 by rpop@chromium.org, Aug 24 2017

I am curious: what is your use case that requires 30+ profiles? Most users have far fewer and scrollability has not come up much.

Comment 6 by ew...@chromium.org, Aug 28 2017

FYI, there's already  Issue 670286  tracking adding a scrollbar to the user menu.

@Rachel, one use case I've heard of - oftentimes developers will have a large number of profiles (one profile for each client/project)

Comment 7 by rpop@chromium.org, Oct 3 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Available)

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