Apple seems to have all kinds of slick tricks up their sleeves. Some day you’ll be futzing around with the trackpad and moving things around, some days you’ll hit the wrong key combination… and some days, something will just happen. It’s like one of those happy little accidents that Bob Ross loved to talk about.
Yesterday while I was trying to shift some tabs around in Safari on macOS Monterey 12.4, I accidentally slid one of the tabs all the way to the right of the tab bar. The tab rolled up into the favicon from the site and pinned there.
Look ma, I cleaned my room
Initially, I was quite excited by this discovery. I ran some searches to see if I could find an explanation for this behavior, but failed to find anything that really described it or the intended purpose. After all, what do you search in Google or DDG to figure this one out?
After you pin the tabs up into the left side, you can “unpin” them again by grabbing them and sliding them back out. This seems to be a neat way to save on some tab bar real estate when you’re doing heavy browsing. It might be a useful way to “lock” tabs while you’re doing heavy web work.
This has been your little useless tidbit for the day. Hope it helps, for whatever reason.