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Re: Tree Style Tabs

#41

Post by ekianjo »

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…

Its weird that Firefox cant provide a single button in the preferences to remove the horizontal tab bar.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#42

Post by yesco »

larozin wrote: post #27

Used it before and it was slow and buggy. I found a better way to manage open tabs: stash them into bookmark stacks using simpler extension. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash

Oh very neat, I already mostly do this via "Select All Tabs" -> "Bookmark Selected Tabs" on the tab bar. I like how this addon appears to streamline that bit and shows them on the new tab page.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#43

Post by rkagerer »

Is there a new hotkey for sibling (vs. child) tab?

Does this play nice with tab save/restore addons similar to Session Buddy? (i.e. is hierarchy persisted?)

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#44

Post by zhte415 »

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.

I don't use bookmarks. Tabs are for things I want to read today or at least as long as the browser session's open (could be multi-day, but all in a chain of thought). If I don't get round to them I let them die under the justification "couldn't have been important enough" rather than carry baggage.

I have a personal wiki where I save links together with self-made notes and links/references associated with it. This provides a persistent record that is richer than that which bookmarks can provide, and can be accessed from any device that I happen to be on (my own devices, or devices that aren't my own, or links shared to others).

For regular sites, I too type in the URL and it usually autocompletes.

For myself, bookmarks have always fallen into a middle ground that I don't have much use for.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#45

Post by gamma-male »

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

I have no idea why Mozilla is ignoring this extension. This is definitely something that should be a core feature.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#46

Post by jchw »

TeMPOraL wrote: post #39
jchw wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Same point remains, you still have to break the sandbox to even interfere with other websites.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#47

Post by gamma-male »

zhte415 wrote: post #44
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.

I don't use bookmarks. Tabs are for things I want to read today or at least as long as the browser session's open (could be multi-day, but all in a chain of thought). If I don't get round to them I let them die under the justification "couldn't have been important enough" rather than carry baggage. I have a personal wiki where I save links together with self-made notes and links/references associated with it. This pr…

Wow. This is me. TST + personal wiki + pocket

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#48

Post by feanaro »

ekianjo wrote: post #41
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…

Its weird that Firefox cant provide a single button in the preferences to remove the horizontal tab bar.

It's part of their new philosophy not to make anything configurable or anything "advanced" easy, unless you're jumping through some hoops.

I still can't get over the fact that they removed the ability to view individual cookies and their values from the browser.

Re: Tree Style Tabs

#50

Post by barryhoodlum »

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 don't know how people live with the mental burden and clutter of dozens of tabs of things they'll (if they were honest with themselves) never get around to reading. It's like watching one of those TV shows about hoarding, where people live in a rabbit warren of junk they claim they'll use one day.
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