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I just open the HN post and then open the article. That way I can simply go back to the comments after reading the article, whenever that may be.
If you use Firefox (and will pardon me plugging my own project), you might be interested in a version of this I made a while ago as a browser extension: https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button My project is somewhat different from the userscript in that mine uses Bloom filters to check whether a link has been submitted, whereas this userscript sends every page you visit to the Algolia search API. Using Bloom fil…
> I was tired of opening 2 tabs for every HN link classic beginner error, in fact no one is supposed to click on TFA
If you use Firefox (and will pardon me plugging my own project), you might be interested in a version of this I made a while ago as a browser extension: https://github.com/jstrieb/hackernews-button My project is somewhat different from the userscript in that mine uses Bloom filters to check whether a link has been submitted, whereas this userscript sends every page you visit to the Algolia search API. Using Bloom fil…
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Windows (IE) tried to give WM visibility into tabs long ago, but this quickly revealed a problem: if tabs are now also separate windows, they enter the Alt+Tab ring, and suddenly you're Alt+Tabbing between 5 applications and dozens of open tabs. N=1, as a tab hoader, I absolutely hated it (it also made Alt+Tab itself very slow to show and cycle). The general problem is that having WM handle in-app tabs means the WM h…
Edge tabs show up in alt + tab.
Firefox has a new Split View that's useful for this, but you still have to left click and select open in split view (M) then click the link. You also used to be able on some browsers to craft a link that was href="tab1.html|tab2.html", no idea if that's still a thing or if it was limited to "home page" setting.
It was 50/50, with HN on the left, so maybe it's not as easy to read the post in smaller windows. Otherwise, seems to provide the same service, essentially.
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Do you really need hundreds of open tabs though? To me this suggests a workflow issue rather than a tab management problem. I only keep tabs open that I'm actively working on right now (or am imminently about to switch back to). I regularly close tabs (and windows for that matter) that are only open because I forgot about them, or that I might use again but not until hours or days later. If I need them later I just o…
I don't know, it works for me. Using Sidebery panes and treestyle tabs makes it really easy to organize your tabs, I have a tree with all my tasks with relevant documentation or subtasks under each task, and I have a separate panes with all the documentation I refer constantly at the top and everything I'm reading right now at the bottom. I definitely have a lot of tabs I opened to read and never closed, but that doe…
I think I'd still maintain a conceptual difference between sites that are source material (e.g. documentation) or apps (e.g. Google Translate), and those that are just for browsing (e.g. news, blogs) and are more ephemeral (I may read it now, or keep it for later, but either way I'll be done with it).
You'd open a PDF, Word document, or app in its own window which you'd manage with your DE / WM. To me it feels like a bit of an anti-pattern to have some of this type of content handled by my WM, and others by a tree-style tab manager, when they are the same "type" of content. I want to be able to press the same keyboard shortcut to switch to my documentation whether it happens to be a PDF or a website.
On the other hand, there isn't anything else really equivalent to browsing-type content, so the tree-style tab manger feels more natural to me there.
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Not sure if I agree about using windows instead of tabs. I have hundreds of tabs open, and dozens loaded, at any moment. I'm sure that it's possible to manage all the context with separate windows via a window manager, but it would have to be a REALLY good window manager to be able to provide equivalent features of tree style tabs and separate panes and whatever else that something like Sidebery provides, and it is a…
I think one of the point of the author is making might also be that a window manager could do just more, like managing windows as tabs as well. So that any application could have tabs, if the desktop manager would allow you to group windows as such. Same with showing a split view within such a tab as well. I think I agree with that. I could imaging that the browser containers of tabs would make a ton of sense if I co…
All that being said, navigation in such a structure would be a mess that would need a lot of learning. Also I’m sure a window manager like this already exists somewhere.
A system wide search within tabs would help more maybe.
Like chrome’s cmd+A but for all tabs everywhere