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- Click a button (or press a hotkey). A popup with a list of all tabs appears.
- Enter `hackern` (or ny or something similar) to filter the list down to hacker news tabs.
- Click Close Selected (you could also do "move to new window").
One day I'm going to write a plugin for this, unless somebody reads this and steals the idea :-)
I live and die by these two cmds on my browser. wow. how else do people manage the avalanche of tabs that is browsing today?
As someone who rarely has more than a few tabs open, I honestly don't get this. What are you doing with so many tabs?
When researching some topic, it's common to have the source document or documents open and then other tabs where people comment on them.
For example, if I'm checking some Python docs, I'll sometimes check how more knowledgeable programmers have solved some edge cases.
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Firefox on macOS takes an order of magnitude longer to start or do anything than Chromium (Chrome, Opera) or Safari.
may be, or may be not. However, does it really matter how long the browser takes to start when you don't ever really close the browser (but only the tabs)?
Not only does FF take a while to start up but when it is loading a mildly heavy page or even after updating, it can freeze up for several (as in 10-20) seconds.
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Chrome was never a power user browser. The hint is the name: like falling a hairless man "Curly", Chrome had less UI chrome and festures than other browsers when released. The awesome dev tools were simply because they dogfood well.
You mean "calling" a hairless......
Chrome is becoming the browser of the masses. Power user usability features are disappearing. I'm still upset over the removal of the backspace key as "back" navigation. I shouldn't need an extension for this.
What are the cool kids using these days, I wouldn't mind a change
It'll support XUL when Firefox drops it.
I've used Tree Style tabs too long to give it up.
UI doesn't constantly change. The UI is pre-Australis. This is one of the reasons I moved to Pale Moon.
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Wow! My first thought was, "How would anyone discover that?" How did you?
I discovered it ... by reading the linked article to the end. Now if they knew about it before I'd like to know how ;-)
Once you've done that, you can drag the whole selection into another window or a new window too.
Well I hope there is an extension to get those options back as I used them regularly to to "reset" after I've solved a problem or moved on to a new ticket and see I've got some 15 tabs open for research that I no longer need. Really they are removing this and leaving in "Bookmark all tabs"? Are you kidding me, what a stupid thing to leave in if you are so concerned about context menu space...
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What are the cool kids using these days, I wouldn't mind a change
Pale Moon ;) It'll support XUL when Firefox drops it. I've used Tree Style tabs too long to give it up. UI doesn't constantly change. The UI is pre-Australis. This is one of the reasons I moved to Pale Moon.
In the past I moved to Chrome because Firefox seemed bloated, but after many (HN) articles arguing that this has been fixed, i decided to give FF another chance.
But today I noticed that despite the fact that Tab Unloader actually does unload tabs, the Firefox process takes 1.5 Gigs on my computer even though pretty much all tabs should be unloaded at this point. It also seems to take longer for FF to show up when I alt-tab to it.
Am I doing something wrong here, or is FF still a bloaty piece of (admittedly) configurable shit? I really don't want to move back to Chrome, but there isn't enough ideology in me to opt for Firefox if it still sucks.