Do you mean here on userecho? It would just have the same title but if you like OK, but in the meantime here's a quick recap:

From the UI point of view:

Right now when you hover over a "tab node" you have icons - the trash can (close and true delete) and the X (close and save).

I am proposing a third "lock" icon, which would result in that tab being saved with a "frozen" URL, in effect becoming like a traditional static bookmark. From then on, the user would never have to worry about that URL being deleted or changed unless s/he does so explicitly within TO's UI.

Obviously there would be many other ways from a UI POV to accomplish the functional goal, and of course it's the latter that's important rather than the icon.

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What follows isn't so important to the core idea outlined above:

This functionality could be available only on already-closed tab nodes, would perhaps make things simpler? Then when the user opens it up in future, OT could just open a new normal (free floating) tab node, something like this : http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/open-pinnedtab-link

If it were available on a currently-open tab, then I'd recommend TO saving a (parent) copy of the open tab as locked, allowing the user to continue transparently within their (child) Chrome tab. This could be a bit like a "breadcrumb trail" of my navigation on a topic, saving "snapshot" tab nodes as I go along, with the sequence of the trail apparent from the outline hierarchy.

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Going off on a bit of a tangent, another annoyance for me is the fact that the "title" of the tab node is "hard coded" to be that delivered to the browser in the HTML title data. If I want to indicate what a tab node actually is, I have to attach a note node below it, where I'd like to be able to just edit the node's text directly, using the pencil icon as is now available for note, window, group and gDoc nodes.

Just like your coming "change color" etc changes, this should also have the side effect of preserving the tab node from disappearing if the user closes the tab from Chrome.

However if you considered this a good idea, then perhaps you should consider using that as an alternative to the "lock icon" UI for the above discussed functionality, the idea being that if I go to the trouble to rename a node, I want to not only keep it from disappearing, I want to keep it **as is** and protect the URL from being changed.

Personally I think the color/font whatever changes I make to the node should have the same effect, can't imagine going to the trouble to edit the node in TO unless I wanted to "lock" it, otherwise that tab could (most likely would) just end up being some random page somewhere else next time I open it and navigate as usual, forces me to constantly be "TO aware" in my browsing, which need I see as one of the barriers to the great tool's wider acceptance.

Thanks for the Alt/Shift/Ctrl comboclick tips, very useful, and of course software programs the user as much if not more than the other way around, many workarounds do work just fine.

I've haven't used standard in-browser bookmarks for decades now, been a delicious users since that started up, but unfortunately none of the Chrome extensions have matched the classic Firefox one, that's one of the few areas where I need to still use FF. You can see therefore why I don't want yet a third repository for my bookmarking, and even though it isn't strictly necessary for TO to be very very useful, I will continue to advocate for - if not my specific suggestion - then a way for TO to have functionality that will allow for "something like the way native Chrome bookmarks work".

Obviously the sync'ing functionality would be required in order for that to make sense, and I'd personally also give that a higher priority, but do please consider an enhancement like this in the future.

And thanks once more for a great tool

what a tool 8-)

Yes, I need more contrast on closed lines as well. Resizing (Ctrl+) helps a bit, but then you've got a lot more scrolling. Perhaps use an outline box/background color to distinguish open vs closed - or maybe just the bolding?, allowing both to be full white-on-black.

@Vladyslav 

Looking for a cookbook on migrating data from one Chrome instance to another. The GoogleDocs method above doesn't capture all the information, many of the links are flat text (page titles no URL data) plus no distinction between groups windows etc.

So separately from the Sync (bit of a challenge I'm sure) how about an easy backup/restore process?