detaching a chrome tab on catalina causes a jump to a different workspace
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It is my habit to have dozens of chrome tabs open across a dozen workspaces in macOS.
Often I want to to re-organize these tabs.
For example, I may have an instance of chrome on workspace 5 with 10 tabs.
Let's say that I want to detach 3 of these to a separate instance of chrome on the same workspace.
This has worked fine for years. However, after the upgrade to macOS Catalina, when I detach the first tab, I and the tab are forced to a completely different workspace containing a completely different instance of chrome.
This is extremely disorienting and annoying and it happens every single time that I detach a single tab from an instance of chrome.
I've tried these commands in the terminal as suggested here :
$ defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-auto-swoosh -bool YES
$ killall Dock
But when I detach a tab now, the tab just seems to disappear.
It is actually transported to one of my 12 workspaces but I am not.
Now I have to go searching for it.
This is driving me insane.
Anyone have a work-around?
**UPDATE: I've confirmed this is a bug in chrome not macOS mission control**
This is so annoying that I switched to firefox and firefox does NOT experience the same issue.
Asked by Alex Ryan
(887 rep)
Feb 23, 2020, 08:43 AM
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