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Thanks, maybe you or someone else would be nice enough to answer some followup questions:
So this iconifying is called pinning, do I understand that correctly? How does that help you find a tab? All seems to do is make the tab into a tiny icon.
Also, what am I accidentally doing to make these things happen? I tried making it happen by dragging a tab around and I can't do it on purpose.
Pinning keeps it perpetually on screen no matter where in the tab bar you are scrolled. Useful if you have a tab you always need and also many other tabs open.
I'm not sure about pinning but for tab grouping you are grabbing and holding a tab directly over another tab.
Lol okay, this isn't easy to do because the tab underneath moves out of the way like 90% of the time. I cannot figure out why it doesn't sometimes. I also just now somehow managed to create a tab group with just one tab. The tab group dialog popped up when I just released the tab without any other tab underneath. Also the opposite: I dragged the tab onto another tab, there was a blue highlight indicator and everything, I let go, but it just moved the tab anyway without grouping it. That's some serious jank.
dragging a tab on top of another tab merges them into a "group" containing both of those tabs. it's like making folders on a phone's home screen, and it's exactly the same kind of fiddly because if you're not holding it dead center it assumes you're trying to rearrange them instead so it shoves them aside instead of creating the folder
dragging a tab all the way to the left and holding it there will pin it, a little pushpin icon will appear if you're holding it in the right spot
I don't know for certain that "Iconifying" is pinning, but I presume that is it. As WhyEssEff said, if you have quite a few tabs open you will need to scroll to see some of them, but pinned tabs are always shown as a small icon on the left.
I don't know how you are pinning tabs (if that is what is happening) on accident. It seems to me to be hard to do too.
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