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Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by basch »

bberrry wrote: post #19
Ankaios wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usually probably about 1000 tabs, spread over 100 to 200 windows on 10–20 virtual desktops. (I also block Javascript by default, so Firefox still runs alright.)

How do you manage the windows? Opening other windows is how I've lost open tabs before, so now I keep a single Firefox window.

If you cant remember where the tab is by its favicon, the easiest thing to do is search for it by name.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goto-tab/hjfkaobgk...

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by errnoh »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #3

Just curious - what is the amount of tabs that everyone else has open right now in their browser? I currently have 29... Trying to figure out on which side I'm an outlier. I know (thanks to the favicon) what each tab is and when I'll use it next, but am I just wasting ram on my computer and in meatspace?

2333 tabs open (Firefox 75.0), split between three windows atm. Using ~3GB, about 50/50 split between main process and plugin-containers.

There's no clear reason for page to be on any specific window though. Usually I just end up with 15 pages open next to each other about some specific topic that I'm interested at that time.

Running quite minimal amount of add-ons. Tab Stats is one I'd recommend for people with large amount of tabs. Provides easy way to prune duplicates etc.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by beerandt »

vbo wrote: post #11

This is pretty cool. On a related note, Chrome makes it easy to "move" your open tabs from one device to another via history / tabs from other devices / open all, which is very helpful if you tend to open a ton of links in new tabs to read later, but need to switch devices.

I've never gotten this feature to work properly (granted I gave up trying over a year ago, and I am a tab hoarder)- if I switch devices looking for a specific tab, it's almost never there. There might be older and/or newer tabs, but rarely the one I actually need.

The only consistent way I've (sort of) gotten tabs from chrome on Android to anything else is plugging into a laptop and using the developer console list of URLs.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by Ankaios »

bberrry wrote: post #19
Ankaios wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usually probably about 1000 tabs, spread over 100 to 200 windows on 10–20 virtual desktops. (I also block Javascript by default, so Firefox still runs alright.)

How do you manage the windows? Opening other windows is how I've lost open tabs before, so now I keep a single Firefox window.

I tend to give each major thing I'm working on its own virtual desktop, which has a bunch of open browser and other windows. Each of the browser windows tends to have its own theme, too. (E.g. documentation for a particular framework, articles from a particular journal, a news topic, etc.) That makes it relatively easy for me to keep a handle on things. If I feel like I can't find things on a virtual desktop any more, that's my hint to clean things up a bit.

My biggest source of grief is session management between restarts. Firefox thankfully remembers the windows and tabs, but it doesn't reopen windows on the same virtual desktops they were on when it closed, at least under GNOME defaults. (Nor do the other programs.) That makes me do a lot of manual rearranging whenever it restarts, which is a pain. Other than that, it usually works well.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by bobbydreamer »

cm523 wrote: post #14

Really like OneTab for this same functionality. https://www.one-tab.com - For Firefox and Chrome. Differences, clicking OneTab's "Share as web page" will give you a link with the date-time you merged your tabs into the OneTabs list as well as a QR Code. Saving tabs and also saving memory, when it auto merges them into a single space.

Been using one one tab for last 3years and I have around 3000 tabs list :)

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by bariswheel »

welder wrote: post #25

A simple tip for those with many tabs open: Shift + Select multiple tabs and drag them into a new window. That feature helps me clean up 100+ open tabs in Chrome.

Wow, thank you. These life-changing tips really need to be much more easily discoverable.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by nickjj »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #3

Just curious - what is the amount of tabs that everyone else has open right now in their browser? I currently have 29... Trying to figure out on which side I'm an outlier. I know (thanks to the favicon) what each tab is and when I'll use it next, but am I just wasting ram on my computer and in meatspace?

Right now 1 since I just finished editing a podcast and I'm ready to reward myself with a little break.

I typically close my browser when I'm done doing something and I don't have it remember my last opened tabs.

Usually when developing or casually browsing I'll have anywhere between 3 and 15+ depending on what I'm researching and doing. I'm totally cool with them disappearing when I'm done with the session.

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Post by primogen »

bitxbitxbitcoin wrote: post #3

Just curious - what is the amount of tabs that everyone else has open right now in their browser? I currently have 29... Trying to figure out on which side I'm an outlier. I know (thanks to the favicon) what each tab is and when I'll use it next, but am I just wasting ram on my computer and in meatspace?

Waterfox user here. I use different Mozilla profiles for different subject matters (eg, learn.kubernetes, project.xxxxx, stealth, hn.reader, etc). I've had several generations of 'HN reader' browser profiles; each between 3000-5000 tabs. I start a new HN reader profile when the last one's unusable because of the amount of memory required to load it.

Re: Show HN: Tablist – a chrome extension to copy and paste lists of open tabs

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Post by dutzi_ »

basch wrote: post #20
dutzi_ wrote: post #17

I have https://clusterwm.com/ set up to open once I hit Cmd+Shift+L. It opens a new tab with a list of open tabs and a (focused) search field you can use to filter that list. Really useful when you have a ton of open tabs and looking for one in particular.

GoTo Tab is similar but it opens as a dialog menu not a new tab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/goto-tab/hjfkaobgk...

Nice!
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