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About revisitation: is there a tool that saves the contents of every web page as I browse, and creates a searchable archive? I think there is a much higher probability that webpages I have seen in the past contain relevant information for future searches. It could be used as an offline library, or as an advanced revisitation mechanism.
If you're on Linux or Windows, you can use the amazing Recoll: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/usermanual.h...
If I close a tab, the chances of me re-visiting it drop to 0.
If I keep it open there is still hope.
Sad but true, even though I'm from the era of web rings and bookmark folders.
That's why I loved it when I noticed that Firefox didn't load all the tabs when you restored your session. So you can have tabs dormant.
Funny side effect of dormant tabs and the modern fast moving internet is that I sometimes find myself re-visiting tab after it has gone 404.
About revisitation: is there a tool that saves the contents of every web page as I browse, and creates a searchable archive? I think there is a much higher probability that webpages I have seen in the past contain relevant information for future searches. It could be used as an offline library, or as an advanced revisitation mechanism.
I've just learnt of Recoll (sibling comment) on this thread, looking at that.
But yes, this is very much something I'd like. I'm using Pocket somewhat for this now, but with a tremendous amount of frustration.
This seems to be all about tabs or windows. Am I the only one who uses tabs and windows? I have one browser window always open with all my everyday communications: Gmail, Google Voice, Calendar, a corporate Outlook webmail account, a Discord team, etc. Then if I do something different I open a new window for it. If it's an HN break, I open a new window for the HN home page and start middle-clicking (or Ctrl/Cmd click…
This seems to be all about tabs or windows. Am I the only one who uses tabs and windows? I have one browser window always open with all my everyday communications: Gmail, Google Voice, Calendar, a corporate Outlook webmail account, a Discord team, etc. Then if I do something different I open a new window for it. If it's an HN break, I open a new window for the HN home page and start middle-clicking (or Ctrl/Cmd click…
My final solution is to use two browsers and pinned tabs. I use Safari for slacking off and googling. And chrome for work related stuff with pinned tabs for Jira, Jenkins and what not. I then use Browser Fairy to redirect links from various applications to one or the other browser (e.g. everything from iTerm gets opened in safari, stuff from slack gets a prompt, non associated apps open links in Chrome)
I still accumulate crud in my Chrome tabs, but at least it is livable.
One problem with tabs vs windows is that it just looks at two "solutions" and isn't approaching things from a use case perspective. Not that this is easy, with people having wildly different browsing habits. Thanks to the magic of the middle mouse button, I always was a heavy tab user, opening "sub-tabs" in the background for plenty of link-heavy sites (like HNews). In the early days I created lots of top-level windo…
So I'm not sure how much of a problem it is. There is a history function in the browser, but it's cluttered with things I don't care about that makes the things I do care about hard to find. If you look at that as a problem, then tabs could actually be seen as a solution to that.
Hating Firefox now as there isn’t a Tab Mix Plus for Quantum. I need to click any link, bookmark or search to open a new tab! This how I’ve browsed the net for ten or more years. Anyone else frustrated about this and found a solution?
Lots of people are frustrated with their tab extensions dying and I assume most of them (like me) are now using the ESR release. (Note that Mozilla penalise you for downgrading by deleting random bookmarks and your browsing history)
aka they don't support profile data migration between versions. "Penalise" is needlessly polarising.
Hating Firefox now as there isn’t a Tab Mix Plus for Quantum. I need to click any link, bookmark or search to open a new tab! This how I’ve browsed the net for ten or more years. Anyone else frustrated about this and found a solution?
Or do you mean that you can't now - because you're supposed to still be able to. Although you might have to get used to using the middle mouse button rather than the left one.
About revisitation: is there a tool that saves the contents of every web page as I browse, and creates a searchable archive? I think there is a much higher probability that webpages I have seen in the past contain relevant information for future searches. It could be used as an offline library, or as an advanced revisitation mechanism.
Yes! If you're on Linux or Windows, you can use the amazing Recoll: http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/usermanual/usermanual.h...
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I do the same on Chrome, but on Firefox there were Tab Groups. For the time being it needs to be ported to Web Extension. Firefox also does not reload all tabs on start, unlike Chrome. That's a thing that I don't like the most about Chrome. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups/
Firefox also does not reload all tabs on start, unlike Chrome That's a choosable setting in Chrome -- resume where you left off, or start fresh.