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Few is only useful if it never takes away something you needed. Several things are protected without you doing anything.

Protected by default

The last three switches are per step, so you can change them for one action without changing the rest. Open a step in the editor to see them. One more thing is always protected: a page that looks private — banking, health, account security, a personal document — may still move into Bin, but Few never closes it from there. Few works that out on your device; see How Few understands your tabs.

Protecting a site

Two ways:
  • From the popup. Hover a tab in the Bin list and choose Protect site. The tab comes back out of Bin immediately.
  • From Settings in the editor. Type a domain and press Protect.
The Settings button and the panel it opens: the protected sites list, your groups with a switch each, and the Show Few and Smart Grouping switches. Protection is by hostname, so protecting github.com covers every page on it.

Your groups, and Few’s

Few leaves every group you made alone. Settings → Your groups lists them, each with a switch, all off to start with. Switch one on and Few may move its tabs to Bin and sort them into its own groups — the same as a loose tab. Switch it off again and Few stops. The groups Few makes itself are named plainly: Docs, Recent, Bin. Few keeps its own record of which groups it made, so a group of yours that happens to share a name with one of Few’s is still yours. If you rename one of Few’s groups, Few takes that as the group now being yours, and leaves it alone.
Few only recognises the groups it made while it can match them up. After a browser restart it re-finds them by name, colour and the tabs inside; any it cannot be sure of are treated as yours. The worst case is a group Few made that it no longer touches, never one of yours that it takes.

Turning Few off for a while

The switch in the popup stops the engine entirely. Nothing is moved or closed while it is off, and anything already in Bin stays exactly where it is.
Few also stops on its own when a trial or subscription ends. It looks different in the popup, and it is explained in Your account.