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Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by bogomipz »

basch wrote: post #20
dutzi_ wrote: post #17

I have https://clusterwm.com/ set up to open once I hit Cmd+Shift+L. It opens a new tab with a list of open tabs and a (focused) search field you can use to filter that list. Really useful when you have a ton of open tabs and looking for one in particular.

GoTo Tab is similar but it opens as a dialog menu not a new tab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goto-tab/hjfkaobgk...

Interesting. Would this also supersede the need to use extensions that attempt to put tabs to sleep to manage memory usage? When I was using Chrome it was always the memory usage by many tabs that caused me problems.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by bogomipz »

dutzi_ wrote: post #17

I have https://clusterwm.com/ set up to open once I hit Cmd+Shift+L. It opens a new tab with a list of open tabs and a (focused) search field you can use to filter that list. Really useful when you have a ton of open tabs and looking for one in particular.

This looks really nice. It looks like it does a lot. Does it play well with other extensions - privacy extensions, memory management extensions etc?

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by postsantum »

bariswheel wrote: post #27
welder wrote: post #25

A simple tip for those with many tabs open: Shift + Select multiple tabs and drag them into a new window. That feature helps me clean up 100+ open tabs in Chrome.

Wow, thank you. These life-changing tips really need to be much more easily discoverable.

The browser could check your tab patterns and offer tips. For example, if you have a hundred of tabs but navigating mostly within a limited set of them, a cartoonish fox would appear in the bottom right corner, asking if you need assistance

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by samsquire »

ypcx wrote: post #50

Why do we open new tabs? 1. We want to do multiple things at once (very rare, very limited, let's say we have 5 such things, Gmail, Slack, Gitlab, monitoring, etc.) 2. We want to have websites preloaded and ready to go as soon as we get to that tab (often) 3. We want to "bookmark" links temporarily without actually saving them into our Bookmarks (this goes hand in hand with point 2. but not always) 4. Observation: la…

I open new tabs because I want to branch the information that I am looking at to see some thing related to some thing I have just seen. I want to cross reference information that I am reading. I might lookup a quora answer to a question when someone talks about some thing I don't know about. Or use a dictionary. Each tab is an inquiry for me.

I see web browsers as digital magazine renderers. Each tab is a new magazine or magazine page. The web isn't very composable, clicking on a link takes me to a new magazine page, complete with its own design and own design language. There's no way to interrupt the browser at a particular point where I am reading in the magazine and have it introduce other cross referenced content within the article I am already reading. I have to go to a separate tab and separate page for it.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by cle »

ypcx wrote: post #50

Why do we open new tabs? 1. We want to do multiple things at once (very rare, very limited, let's say we have 5 such things, Gmail, Slack, Gitlab, monitoring, etc.) 2. We want to have websites preloaded and ready to go as soon as we get to that tab (often) 3. We want to "bookmark" links temporarily without actually saving them into our Bookmarks (this goes hand in hand with point 2. but not always) 4. Observation: la…

This is pretty close to what I get out of Tree Style Tab + Auto Tab Discard on Firefox. I haven't found any Chrome extensions with the same convenience for managing tabs. Tabs Outliner is close but the fact that it's not bound to each window makes it pretty inconvenient to use.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by milkey_mouse »

Huh, I made something almost exactly like this a few months ago. I couldn't be bothered to get a Chrome developer account and pay the fee so I had to put Chrome in developer mode every time I used it.

https://github.com/milkey-mouse/tab-list

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by nicolewhite »

ypcx wrote: post #50

Why do we open new tabs? 1. We want to do multiple things at once (very rare, very limited, let's say we have 5 such things, Gmail, Slack, Gitlab, monitoring, etc.) 2. We want to have websites preloaded and ready to go as soon as we get to that tab (often) 3. We want to "bookmark" links temporarily without actually saving them into our Bookmarks (this goes hand in hand with point 2. but not always) 4. Observation: la…

Reminds me of the chrome extension I made for myself that will close all tabs with the same domain as the active tab. Usually I end up with many reddit tabs open and I want to close all the tabs I opened except for the home page that I'm currently on.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/manage-tabs-by-dom...

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by hombre_fatal »

joegahona wrote: post #38
cloudking wrote: post #32

Serious question, people who have hundreds or thousands of tabs at a time, why? Personally I've never found the need to have so many tabs open.

Agreed, it just seems like laziness and poor hygiene. The digital equivalent of men letting their nails grow long.

Seems closed-minded and judgemental to ascribe negative traits to people who use things differently than you.

For example, I prefer tabs over bookmarks because I never revisit bookmarks. With tabs, I will eventually get around to them. And I'm in no rush to minimize them. I may want to pick my brain from weeks ago and looking at the tabset I had open then is exactly what I want to do, like that one time I was deep-diving on Crusader King 2 strategies.

It's not like poor hygiene or a dirty house because it's completely digital. What is the actual difference between having a minimized browser with 100 tabs and 100 "to-do" bookmarks and 100 tabs saved to OneTab? Just your arbitrary prejudices.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by crispyporkbites »

brewdad wrote: post #48
cm523 wrote: post #14

Really like OneTab for this same functionality. https://www.one-tab.com - For Firefox and Chrome. Differences, clicking OneTab's "Share as web page" will give you a link with the date-time you merged your tabs into the OneTabs list as well as a QR Code. Saving tabs and also saving memory, when it auto merges them into a single space.

I really wish OneTab could sync between different computers. I regularly use three different machines and hate when I can't find a Tab I saved on one of the machines I'm not currently using.

Try https://tab.bz instead
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