There are so many uses for pin tabs. I use them to store things for later, say, an unfinished article, or something that I always want to come back and websites I need opened and stay there for the whole browsing time ( Feedly for example ).
I am sure you all have your own uses for Chrome Pinned Tabs. Be sure to share them in comments !!  Now,  I got one more thing I recently added to my list. I keep tabs pinned so that I will not accidentally close them. The “x” button will go off when you pin a tab, you will have to right click or use CTRL + W to close the tab.
I was watching a movie online recently. It took an hour for me to get it streamed  fully because the source was really slow. I closed the wrong tab and there goes the my movie !!!
Next time when I do something of that kind, I will make sure that the tab is pinned …. will you ?
Actually, the last use case you mentioned is not useful for me.
I got used to closing tabs by middle clicking them – and that works for pinned and regular tabs.
It is such a waste of time, going to that X and clicking it.
LOL .. you are the real power user
and i even have ctrl + w mapped to the thumb button of the mouse. this is not helpful at all!
I tend to have Facebook as a pinned tab, and use the “Favicon Alert” extension so there´ll be notifications. It´s too bad I´m somehow addicted to FB, I´m not even a fan, but at least I don´t have to randomly log in and out or open and close the tab. I liked the different design on app tabs they had going on but now seem to have neglected. Since I don´t want e-mail notifications I´m going to pin this tab.
cool
hope someday chromestory.com also will be a pinned tab on ur computer 
haha.. it has its place in google reader ; )
fair enough !!
I use a pinned tab for eBuddy, and when some program wants to restart my computer, it asks me if I want to close it. If I say Cancel, my computer stays on.
ebuddy is a web based instant messaging client right ?
I don’t use pinned tabs anymore, because I have my sidetabs.
uhmm .. do they work the same way ?
well, I can pin tabs. but it don’t save any space and the X stays their. It only moves to the top of my sidebar.
And I have my session opened when I start my browser, so I have always my most used websites open directly.
I would like to see a feature where I can use both sidetabs and the topbar. So the sidebar for most of my tabs because of the space, and on the top, the pinned tabs which I use mostly.
I use pinned tabs for Facebook (but I had no idea of Favicon Alert, that was really useful!), relying on the glow on pinned tabs when a change happens. I also had Twitter pinned, but I’m on OS X and have the Twitter app now, so there’s no point. I also keep most of my Chrome Webapps in pinned tabs.
I still use twitter as pinned tab with auto refresh plugin
should use tweetdeck extension instead. then it’ll auto refresh + you can pin the tab
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