Will Bridge 13.0.4 have a proper "File > New Window" like Bridge 12 does?
@Mohit Goyal closed comments on the Adobe Bridge Beta is now available (13.0.3.686) topic for some reason or I would have posted there... they mentioned "we are hearing your requests about reintroducing Multiple Bridge windows", but said that's not in the 13.0.3 beta... so I just wanted to confirm that "Multiple Bridge windows" is in fact what people are asking for: the SAME EACT functionality Bridge 12 had (and has had for literally 10+ years before that) with it's "File > New Window" feature (or most of us just press Apple/Command/Control + N on the keyboard).
The main difference between 12's "New Window" feature (and every version before for YEARS) is how you get a COMPLETE new Bridge window. You can not only see your thumbnail images, but you can browse the Folder tree on the left, see the metadata panel, etc. etc. etc. – it has absolutely full usability of features. Bridge 13 completely and utterly butchers this. There is NO "New Window" feature, only a "Multiple Content Panels" feature, were you ONLY have a "content" window with thumbnails - nothing else, no way to browse other folders or see metadata or anything. Nearly useless for the avid photo editor who actually uses Bridge.
So is the above what @Mohit Goyal is talking about when they say "Multiple Bridge windows"? -- just wanted to confirm as this is a HUGE deal for many of us (and why so many people are continuing to use Bridge 12 instead of the broken Bridge 13).
Also wanted to mention that even if people DID want to try Bridge v13/2023 for some of it's new features, while of course HAVING to also have Bridge v12/2022 running at the same time (as we can't live without that 'New Window' feature) –– we can NOT do that anymore. Adobe removed the ability to run two different years of Bridge at the same time. This is different than in the past, they did this on purpose for some reason. Thankfully I can still run multiple different versions of Adobe programs like InDesign for example; commonly needed when working on files for clients who haven't upgraded... (or like when Illustrator had .DXF import borked for 2+ years...).
Last, a sidenote I hope they also fix: In Bridge 13's Folder panel, they took away the ability to quickly double-click on a folder's name to expand it, so you can see the sub-folders inside. For 10+ years before you could click ANYWHERE on the folder name and it expanded. It was SUPER fast, you didn't have to be precise, just double-click anywhere on the long folder name and it expanded... I literally do this, no kidding, THOUSANDS of times a day (work under FDA perview so all files have to be perfectly catalogued under job numbers a certain way... TONS of folder structure everywhere).
In Bridge 13 you now have to precisely click the itty-bitty ">" symbol, and that symbol only. Sounds like a stupid little thing I shouldn't even be complaining about, right? This little thing literally kills my productivity. Those few extra seconds needed to be so precise to click on that super small symbol, multiplied by thousands of times a day – I did the math: it's literally an extra half hour+ to my day. This is an example of how a super small feature, when Adobe changes it for NO logical reason, can hurt productivity, hurt their customers.
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