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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by cpeterso »

PhasmaFelis wrote: post #147

I'm torn between thinking it's time to switch back to Firefox, and thinking I need to avoid Firefox at all costs, because the slowdown when Chrome gets over 100+ tabs is the only thing keeping my browser windows remotely navigable. You know what I really want? A way to attach titles to browser windows. This window is "Games", this one is for "Books", this one is for my current "Work" task, this one is "Research" on t…

Check out the Firefox extension "Simplified Tab Groups" to create named groups of tabs:

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by Manishearth »

revelation wrote: post #16

Whut? It didn't get any faster, it's just more aggressively lazy loaded now. This is breaking the very use case of people who have 100+ tabs; they want stuff to be there when they click on it.

I often have ~100 tabs open, and I have a habit of hitting ctrl-tab and letting it cycle as a fidget.

The first cycle is not smooth because there's noticeable aggregate loading, but it's able to cope just fine after with a lot of tabs completely loaded. This has improved a lot rather recently.

And when I click a lazy loaded tab after startup there's no noticeable load for the individual tab, it's right there when I click it.

It's only when you force-load all the tabs that load times become visible, but that's to be expected.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by joonoro »

atombender wrote: post #233
elorant wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I wish tabs/windows worked more like persistent "workspaces". For example, say I'm booking a trip. I always open a bunch of sites (Kayak, Booking.com, lots of hotels, Google Maps, places to visit, etc.) in a single window. In pre-computer times it would be like covering a desk with a ton of papers, books and notes. Gradually I will figure out stuff, book the trip, etc. but the tabs can stay for quite a while. I feel…

Firefox used to have this feature, but it was removed. You need to install this extension now: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa...

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by eyeball »

The OneTab extension has been really good for helping me handle my tab hoarding tendency.

https://www.one-tab.com/

It lets you hit a button and send all open tabs to a single page that persists between browser sessions. You can remove a link by opening up that list and clicking on it.

Has a bunch of other handy features too ... like publishing the list of links to a share-able URL.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by nxc18 »

atombender wrote: post #233
elorant wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I wish tabs/windows worked more like persistent "workspaces". For example, say I'm booking a trip. I always open a bunch of sites (Kayak, Booking.com, lots of hotels, Google Maps, places to visit, etc.) in a single window. In pre-computer times it would be like covering a desk with a ton of papers, books and notes. Gradually I will figure out stuff, book the trip, etc. but the tabs can stay for quite a while. I feel…

Edge has this since Creators update. Unfortunately, Edge is pretty bad in ways that actually matter (UI responsiveness, reliability).

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by confounded »

atombender wrote: post #233
elorant wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I wish tabs/windows worked more like persistent "workspaces". For example, say I'm booking a trip. I always open a bunch of sites (Kayak, Booking.com, lots of hotels, Google Maps, places to visit, etc.) in a single window. In pre-computer times it would be like covering a desk with a ton of papers, books and notes. Gradually I will figure out stuff, book the trip, etc. but the tabs can stay for quite a while. I feel…

Folders of bookmarks?

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by ATsch »

cpeterso wrote: post #223
glogla wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a Chrome feature or Chrome-only Youtube feature?

Firefox has the same feature, though it is currently enabled by default only in the Firefox Nightly channel. You can use the `media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground` about:config pref to enable it in the Beta or Release channels.

Thank you... I almost re-switched to chrome over this.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by gboudrias »

hossbeast wrote: post #239
atombender wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wish tabs/windows worked more like persistent "workspaces". For example, say I'm booking a trip. I always open a bunch of sites (Kayak, Booking.com, lots of hotels, Google Maps, places to visit, etc.) in a single window. In pre-computer times it would be like covering a desk with a ton of papers, books and notes. Gradually I will figure out stuff, book the trip, etc. but the tabs can stay for quite a while. I feel…

It's time to deprecate bookmarks in browsers, and add workspaces.

Don't touch my bookmarks! I have all my tabs in my headspace at all times, I need bookmarks to mentally organize my stuff in the short-term/long-term category.

If bookmarks are deprecated I'll have to save workspaces made up of a single page and I'll just feel silly.

Edit: Plus you can use bookmark folders as workspaces already I guess? I don't but you can, fairly easily!

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by ams6110 »

elorant wrote: post #162
huntie wrote: post #39

I'm really glad that people at Mozilla use ridiculous numbers of tabs too. Lazy-loading of tabs is the reason I switched to firefox. I'm not sure if it's still this way, but Chrome used to load every tab on startup. So even if you only had 100 tabs, you were looking at 5+ minute startup time. God-forbid that any of them were Youtube, or you'd have to go through and pause them all. I've just updated to Firefox 55 to t…

So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I agree. If I have more than 10 tabs open it's pretty extraordinary.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by [deleted] »

gboudrias wrote: post #248
hossbeast wrote: post #239

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's time to deprecate bookmarks in browsers, and add workspaces.

Don't touch my bookmarks! I have all my tabs in my headspace at all times, I need bookmarks to mentally organize my stuff in the short-term/long-term category. If bookmarks are deprecated I'll have to save workspaces made up of a single page and I'll just feel silly. Edit: Plus you can use bookmark folders as workspaces already I guess? I don't but you can, fairly easily!

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