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    [Suggestion] Ctrl+W closes pinned tabs

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    • Slooshie
      Slooshie last edited by leocg

      Whenever I want to close a pinned tab, I have to right-click the tab and find the close tab button. Despite the drop down menu saying you can close pinned tabs with Ctrl+W, you cannot. It would be nice if this functionality gets added.

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      • skyaldmo
        skyaldmo @Slooshie last edited by

        @slooshie Exactly! I was using chrome for past 10 years, recently switched to Opera and this is one of the things that bug me the most. You can't even middle click to close a pinned tab, you just have to right click and select "Close tab". I mean who has time for that? Also not being able to use new tab extensions on Opera is also very infuriating.

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        • nycsker
          nycsker @Slooshie last edited by

          @slooshie Agreed. There's no useful reason to have Cmd or Ctrl+W not work on pinned tabs.

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          • benrogmans
            benrogmans last edited by

            Created an account here just to upvote this!

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            • clemeeclemo
              clemeeclemo last edited by

              Workaround which works well enough for me:

              • Tab Pinner to obtain the Ctrl + Shift + X keyboard shortcut to pin / unpin a tab: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-pinner-keyboard-short/mbcjcnomlakhkechnbhmfjhnnllpbmlh
              • When I want to close a pinned tab ==> - Ctrl + Shift + X followed by Ctrl + W (when you get the hang of chaining the two it's pretty quick. At least much better than right clicking on the pinned tab)

              Hope this helps

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              • LatentArchitect
                LatentArchitect @Slooshie last edited by

                @slooshie Count another +1 from me. Seems like a niche shortcut (which is really weird to me but whatever), though so I am not sure whether or not this will every actually be fixed unfortunately. Been over 2 years too 😞 .

                Honestly, I would consider this a straight up bug, now that I think about it.
                The intended/expected behavior is not actually what occurs here.

                Hope they fix it soon. Personally, I'll probably just figure it out with tampermonkey til then.

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