It was a real joy when I was a student doing extensive reading on topic(s), treating tabs as a reading list, since I didn't have enough stuff to do back then. Nowadays I find opening more than 10 tabs too counter-productive and distracting. What I'll do when it happens is using something like onetab to snapshot them all (with the hope of looking into it later, which never happens) and start fresh with the ONE thing I was supposed to focus at the time.
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thanks that helped! the RYG buttons of Mac now overlap with back reload etc - but I guess I can tweak the CSS to make that fit. Thanks again!
I had an issue with the coloration on top of that, so I elected to turn the regular system title bar back on. That perfected it for me.
how did you do that?
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Tomato/tomato. I don’t understand how people browse the web with more than 4 or 5 tabs open at the same time.
I have about 400-500 open tabs spread between three browsers on three systems which I'm using simultaneously. At least on my phone, Firefox Focus has helped immensely.
not sure if you are looking for one but I have an extension that I wrote because I am similar to you and always had a hard time finding the tab I wanted. You might find it useful:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/
Source code: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
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Bookmarks have a great ux for it: save all open tabs to a bookmark folder, open all bookmarks in a folder
And then what happens to the trajectory of clicks that I followed to land on the page that was open in the tab ? Rhetorical question of course. With an open tab I have that information and can go back and forth up the path. Its very useful context to have when I revisit the tab. In my line of work I research many things every day. Firefox open tabs have been a godsend. I literally have 900 to 1200 open at any given t…
The browser ought to remember the history of a tab when saving that tab into a bookmark folder (think VM save state).
Photoshop has work flow like this - you can split the undo history into a tree like structure (to a degree, it's not infinite).
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I just gave it another try. Unfortunately, things haven't improved. `about:performance` shows a "medium" energy impact for TST. My 2015 Macbook's fans come on and stay on until I disable TST again, after which they reliably spool back down after a short delay. While TST is enabled, Firefox shoots up the list of CPU users in Activity Monitor. Oh well, it was worth a shot, sidebar tabs are just so good when they're wor…
Different OS (Linux, FF 64), but I was curious to know the impact here. TST has no discernible impact.
I'm using a bunch of other extensions and customisations, so I guess there's some dodgy interaction going on somewhere. No time to go spelunking though. I'll just use it on my desktop instead, where I won't notice the load.
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It needs to go into the "chrome" subdirectory of your profile directory. Usually this doesn't exist so you'll have to create it yourself.
thanks that helped! the RYG buttons of Mac now overlap with back reload etc - but I guess I can tweak the CSS to make that fit. Thanks again!
Use this CSS
#nav-bar-customization-target {
padding-left: 65px;
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#168Anybody knows if something like this is possible in Chrome?
Vivaldi is based on Chromium and allows tabs to be positioned on the side - not Tree Style in terms of hierarchy, but you get the screen-space and usability benefits.
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Why though? Is it all in the same context? I can't stand 10's of tabs let alone 100's!!
Each instance of firefox has its own context. One is unsafe browsing, one is personal browsing, one is development-related browsing, a la Qubes. I used to have a problem with messy, unnavigable bookmarks so now I keep my bookmarks lean and rely on tabs to hold pages I may only need for a month or two at most. It's pretty quick to navigate to a tab with Ctrl+L
How do you create different "instances" of Firefox on the desktop? Or are you just talking about different windows?
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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.
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