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Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by gamma-male »

hbosch wrote: post #10
gamma-male wrote: post #7

I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.

Tomato/tomato. I don’t understand how people browse the web with more than 4 or 5 tabs open at the same time.

You never have more than 5 tabs open at the same time? You’re probably the minority and you probably have learned to do that because the tabs on top put these constraints on you. You would likely browse the web very differently if you had TST. Give it a try.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#12

Post by TylerE »

gamma-male wrote: post #7

I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.

and I don't understand how people have more than about 10 tabs and stay sane. Do you people like... not use bookmarks at all?

Heck, most of the sites I visit on anything like a regular basis I only need to type in the first letter or two and they auto-complete.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#13

Post by gamma-male »

WaxProlix wrote: post #2

I used this for a bit but the duplication of information from this and the existing tab bar made it really annoying. Maybe you can hide the 'normal' bar pretty easily and I just didn't find the setting?

Firefox messed up big time with their flagship plugin with their last updates... not sure why.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by TACIXAT »

I use a similar tab layout in Vivaldi and it's amazing. Page titles are wide, stacking them vertically along the side makes a lot more sense.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by gamma-male »

TylerE wrote: post #12
gamma-male wrote: post #7

I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.

and I don't understand how people have more than about 10 tabs and stay sane. Do you people like... not use bookmarks at all? Heck, most of the sites I visit on anything like a regular basis I only need to type in the first letter or two and they auto-complete.

We use TST :)

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#16

Post by nneonneo »

cocolos wrote: post #6

Anyone know of a way to bookmark the tree structure in TST?

TST itself does not have that feature, but there are FF addons that extend TST (https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab#addons-extend-tst).

"Bookmark Tree" looks like what you want: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-tree.... Give that a shot.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#17

Post by sparkie »

WaxProlix wrote: post #2

I used this for a bit but the duplication of information from this and the existing tab bar made it really annoying. Maybe you can hide the 'normal' bar pretty easily and I just didn't find the setting?

You can add a few lines to userchrome.css to hide the horizontal tab bar for now.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by INTPenis »

gamma-male wrote: post #7

I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.

Considering that pretty much all browser based exploits use JS I'd say the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users is that it used to not be able to block JS without loading it first.

At least this was the case last I checked, haven't really bothered with chrome's technology since its popularity soared ~6 years ago and all my friends started switching to it.

Even if this is fixed it will always be my major sore point about that browser.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by rgoulter »

gamma-male wrote: post #7

I don’t understand how people browse the web without this extension. That’s the number one reason chrome is not usable for power users. I’m also wondering why this is not natively supported by both firefox and chrome.

I'd guess episodic and spacial memory help. All the tabs I'm likely to access together are close together, & were opened at similar times. (So, you can remember what the page was about without needing the full title to associate the tab with the contents).

I probably wouldn't have more than window-width of tabs open at once in a single window, and no more than 2-3 windows open at once.

A tree is a nicer structure for the "where did I open this from", though; especially if the screen space is available.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#20

Post by gbear605 »

gamma-male wrote: post #11
hbosch wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Tomato/tomato. I don’t understand how people browse the web with more than 4 or 5 tabs open at the same time.

You never have more than 5 tabs open at the same time? You’re probably the minority and you probably have learned to do that because the tabs on top put these constraints on you. You would likely browse the web very differently if you had TST. Give it a try.

I also work in this way. I use tabs as my “working memory” for whatever my current project is. Having fewer tabs helps keep me on track working on a single topic. When I’m done with that task, it helps me transition by having closed all the tabs.

When I want to save pages in the long term, I use bookmarks.

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