I've opened this in a tab and intend to read it later.
Doing this, and then never ever following up on it, was how I learned that Chrome on Android changes the tab count to ':D' once you go over 100 tabs open.
Overcoming Tab Overload
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#22Given that almost all screens are widescreen, the fact that browsers don't have a sidebar of tabs is absolutely retarded UX design. Though this one seems to be okay: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vertical-tabs...
Since March, Microsoft Edge based on Chromium supports vertical tabs, just click a button in the tab bar to turn it on: https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2021/03/04/amp-u... I believe back in the day that Opera was the first browser to commonly support the feature. And I remember using Firefox and Mozilla extensions for tab management a decade ago. The more things change...
Vertical tab in Microsoft Edge is a game changer for me. With it, it is easier for me to scan what tabs I have open, which makes it easier for me to close tabs that I no longer need.
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#23Is it ironic that I opened this in a tab? I'd like a browser function that says "open a text file and save all the URLs"
I saw mention of this on HN somewhere previously, but I've found that Tablist[0] is simple (a couple dozen lines of code) and works well.
[0] https://github.com/slymax/tablist (links to Chrome and Firefox extensions there)
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#24I have 0 problems with tabs. I used to and man they can be annoying.
The system that finally worked for me is to bind "Close all Tabs to Left" to Ctrl + Left, likewise for right, and Close All Except Open Tab to Ctrl + Up.
I found this enables painless instant culls, I just save URLs everything I want to survive a total cull (it's hardly ever more than 2 URLs, most tabs are junk which I suppose is the main problem).
Ctrl + W for Close Current Tab and Ctrl + Shift + T for Reopen Closed Tab are also pretty useful (require no bind).
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#25related:
TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25600338
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#26I feel like there are broadly 2 groups of tech literate users; those who like lots of tabs and those who keep things lean. I absolutely cannot relate to the first group, as much as I try to understand the mentality. When I’m digging deep into something new I might end up with 20 tabs, but a) it’s an exception and b) the moment I can see no more value I just close them all down and reset.
I'm completely the same, I might have a dozen active tabs but everything gets closed down asap, and in general I'll have multiple windows for different contexts each with just a few tabs.
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#27Tree style tabs on the side of my window absolutely changed my computing life. I stopped seeing tabs as a collection of what Im doing and instead started using them + the browsers inclination to save my tabs across restarts to track everything. Ill have a tree of tabs for blogs im reading, a tree for work stuff, a tree for amazon orders, etc. All that context can be closed in a single click. Ill have hundreds of tabs…
I’d like to try this. What browser do you use? I see that it’s a feature for Vivaldi and I also see a Chrome extension.
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#28I feel like there are broadly 2 groups of tech literate users; those who like lots of tabs and those who keep things lean. I absolutely cannot relate to the first group, as much as I try to understand the mentality. When I’m digging deep into something new I might end up with 20 tabs, but a) it’s an exception and b) the moment I can see no more value I just close them all down and reset.
For me, tabs are very much a manifestation of what’s going on in my mind at that very instant. Basically a cache. But once I’m done with my task or work is over, I’ll close every. Single. One.
The fear of not being able to recall information is a classic busy-syndrome feeling. Sometimes I also have to tell myself “I’ll probably remember what I worked in yesterday, so maybe there’s no need to panic after all”.
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#29I was actually a big user of firefox panorama. I know that it wasn’t easy to discover but it was the best idea of tabs I’ve seen. Expose, grids, and multiple desktops work the best for switching windows, why not have it for tabs?
I think that with the right desktop environment we could completely get rid of most tabs. Windows and ie were terrible with opening new windows which made tabs a necessity, but really they should be used for grouping related pages.
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#30I would love to see a Miro-style, infinite canvas, tiling tab manager. If I zoom out past the page, show me a canvas with thumbnails of all my tabs, that I can click and drag to group or arrange however I want. Then let me zoom into one of the thumbnails to switch to that tab.
Basically Apple’s mobile Photos.app interface but for browser tabs.