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Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by ech000 »

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.

Same here. The URL bar matches quite good most of the time, so it's more an omni-bar. If I need something, I type it in and it suggests me the page. Having the tab open will suggest me that tab.

But having so many tabs open makes the tab UI useless, so I prefer to close them.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by piyush_soni »

nneonneo wrote: post #3

I use TST extensively to manage hundreds of tabs, and it is a real joy. FWIW, these are the customizations that made TST much more usable for me: 1) Very importantly, hide the horizontal tab bar. You get some vertical screen space back, and you aren't distracted by two ways of showing the same tabs. You'll have to edit your userChrome.css (see e.g. http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=UserChrome.css&pri... for d…

Thanks for these tips. If you don't mind, can you please write these down in the add-on's Review itself so that it's easy for us to find them every time we install it (and may be so that it inspires the add-on author to implement these features himself?)

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#33

Post by krzyk »

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.

Bookmark is for something that I want to be saved forever, tab is something that I want to read now or soon.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#34

Post by piyush_soni »

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.

It's normal for me to have 100 or more tabs. Bookmarks are for more permanent sites - that I know I'll probably have to access multiple times later. If it's just a one time thing, it doesn't deserve to be a bookmark. At the most, it can be a 'ReadItLater' (Pocket) thing. I use Containers and Tab Groups extensively.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#35

Post by unholythree »

I like this, but I visualized it differently. I assumed the tree style tab bar could be placed horizontally and each tab could be a drop down tree from there. I'm not sure if that would even be possible but I'd prefer that arrangement. I rarely maximize my browser so horizontal space isn't just dead space for me.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#36

Post by dualscyther »

SubiculumCode wrote: post #24
leemailll wrote: post #21

I always feel this should be included in Firefox default settings. Vertical space is an asset on modern monitors especially on laptop, this extension is the reason Firefox is the default browser on my machines

Isn't horizontal space what is excess on laptops? All widescreen these days edit: nevermind. i misread.

You're agreeing with parent

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#37

Post by djur »

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.

Do you never find yourself having to read through 10-20 pages to find a particular piece of information or to get a complete understanding of a topic? I find it really useful to be able to open up a lot of tabs from a single page and then run through them one by one.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#38

Post by jehlakj »

petepete wrote: post #28
gbear605 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It's odd that so many people confuse the roles of tabs and bookmarks. Perhaps it's a sign that the bookmark UX isn't good (or prevalent) enough. I generally have four pinned tabs open for email, Slack and Trello, plus another five related to what I'm working on.

I disagree. It’s the poor history UX that’s the problem. Get rid of tabs altogether and show the history on the left side. Or if you like fuzzy searching, look them up in the extension store.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

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Post by TeMPOraL »

jchw wrote: post #25
INTPenis wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 m…

Are JS-based exploits a real threat anymore? Even if you do find an exploit, it looks to be an uphill battle, because you still have layers of security to break through, and they're going to differ by target OS and browser. Even on platforms where things are fairly predictable, like say game consoles, the exploits look complicated and are often not very reliable. Even in Firefox where the security story is still not…

Are JS-based exploits that break out and attack the OS relevant anymore? For most users, almost anything that's relevant to their lives resides within the browser anyway.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#40

Post by jehlakj »

djur wrote: post #37
TylerE wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Do you never find yourself having to read through 10-20 pages to find a particular piece of information or to get a complete understanding of a topic? I find it really useful to be able to open up a lot of tabs from a single page and then run through them one by one.

Especially on websites with infinite scrolling. Anyways, it’s just like the analogy books use to explain caches.
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