“Pinned Tabs” is one of the most favorite features of Google Chrome. It is a feature that I use everyday, which along with my Chrome OS menu on Chrome makes things look awesome !
{ Update : This Feature Is Now Available on Dev Versions of Chrome }
Now, with the latest dev versions of Chromium ( yea, you got it ! I changed to Chromium looking for this feature 
) the browser can remember pinned tabs of last session and open then without you to telling it to do so !
So, I keep the Chrome OS menu and Gmail as pinned tabs. Now I will have these tabs open in pinned status whenever I open the browser. If you remember the idea of “Application Tabs” from the chrome OS demo videos, with this feature, we are one more step closer to Chrome OS as shown on the demo.
This feature is yet to be released even on Chrome Dev version. Once it is rolled out on dev or beta, I will let you all know ! Stay tuned.
Is this Useful ?
Yes indeed ! Â We all have certain websites we open as soon as we are online. This could be gmail, google reader , twitter or facebook. I usually open my gmail and reader first. This is something that I do each time I open my browser. Now, Google Chrome can do this for me. Whenever I open Chrome, it will have my favorite web applications open and ready for me, in a nice and classy pinned tab format. Yes, these must be called “Application Tabs”
I love this !
It will be interesting to watch how google is going to take the development of this feature further. They will probably make gmail or any or many of their services behave differently on application tabs, adding extra functionalities. We have wait and watch !
Pinned tabs, or as they call them now – mini tabs (application tabs will be something different, that is related to the extension system), were around for a long time now.
Perhaps you mean that when you are not choosing to open the pages that were open last, they still show? yes, this is new.
Also, if you add the command line switch –app-launcher-new-tab, you will get the ‘Chrome OS menu’ instead on the New Tab page, when you open a new tab (note – this might only work on Windows currently) – only using Chromium, still not on the Dev channel.
Another way to do this is by going to Tools > Options > Basics and under On startup: select Reopen the pages that were opened last.
Yes, that’s also possible ! but, pinned tabs will soon see more features added to it ..
that’s y I am following pinned tabs !
I use pinned tabs for a while, because of it’s small space. But I have some problems with it. It isn’t possible to pinn my startpages. and when I start chrome, it gives automatically my pinned tabs. That is not really a problem, but I sometimes browse to another website on a pinned tab, so I lose sometimes one of my pinned startpages.
pinned tabs will open on start up with whatever it had when you closed it
that’s the problem. I want just my startpages open in start up with pinned tabs
With the newest version of Chrome the pinned tabs seem to be slightly worse. You used to be able to drag a pinned tab out of the pinned tabs area and make it unpinned, and vice-versa for unpinned tabs. Now you have to right-click tabs and pin/unpin them.
another change is, if you select “close” on a pinned tab, it used to stay there, letting you open it again as pinned tab with a single click. Now, closing the pinned tab closes it completely.
It still works like that on the standard release.
I’ on Dev version
It’s changed to what you said with the v6 release. Why have they started making it progressively worse?
Someone needs to make an article called “Google Chrome’s Pinned Tabs Got Even Worse – Application Tabs”. V4 pinned tabs were brilliant. What are v7′s going to be like? We’ll see in about 4 weeks.
they are messing with it to make it better .. if not, they have made it worse, you are correct !
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