Suggestion: make pinned tabs stick to one site (like Safari)

[kikujiro-mms]

This is a suggestion/request, not a bug.

In Brave, pinned tabs behave like normal tabs, in that opening a link from site A takes you to site B in the same tab. By contrast, in Safari, pinned tabs are specific to a site: opening a link to another site, or typing in a different URL, will open the new site in a new, non-pinned tab.

The Safari behaviour is imho vastly preferable, as it enables the user to keep frequently-used sites (e.g. webmail) permanently available. Brave's implementation as it stands just gives you a smaller tab pinned to the left with no stability of content.

So: please mimic the Safari behaviour.

Thanks

[bsclifton]

Thanks for the report, @kikujiro-mms! I had reported this with #882 but I think you did a better job of describing. Will close my issue in favor of this one 😄

[bsclifton]

From #882

Carried over from brave/browser-laptop#569

When I pin a tab, I want links to other sites to open in a new tab and only on-site links to open in the pinned tab. For example, if I pin gmail, I want to be able to navigate around gmail in that pinned tab but I want a link in an email to some other site to open in a new tab.

Steps to reproduce

1. Visit https://media.clifton.io/issue-569/2016-05-27-brave-pin.html
2. Pin the site
3. Click the "same domain" link, notice it works as expected (opens in same tab)
4. Click back
5. Click the "external link"
6. Notice it didn't work; it opens in the same tab

[rebron]

UE for this isn't straightforward. Inconsistent behavior with how sites what you to open new tab/links.