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Post by refactor_master »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #186
refactor_master wrote: post #28

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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”.

> But once I’m done with my task or work is over, I’ll close every. Single. One. What if you're never done? I have so many tabs open about things I was researching or studying. Something else came up and I had to prioritize... Eventually I forgot about the tabs.

Keeping every tab in your trail of research is like using a highlighter on evert page of the book you’re reading because “it’s all important”. I don’t believe it’s ultimately productive for the actual goal.

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Post by Synaesthesia »

dredmorbius wrote: post #197
exikyut wrote: post #180

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So did some Chrome developers back in 2015. From https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/09/tab-discar... : > Future improvements: the tab serializer > The tab serializer is a future piece of work we think may lead to significant improvements on our current approach to tab discarding. It takes the contents of a Chrome tab and serializes its current state into a binary blob. This binary blob can later be deseri…

Chrome's response to numerous power-user / user-respect features over the past 15 years has absolutely convinced me that it has no interest in supporting either notion. Audio/video autoplay, adblock, tabs navigation and retrieval, user state generally, and more. I still use Chrome on Android in two cases: 1. On an old device in which Firefox/Fennec performance is abysmal. (On a newer device, there's no contest, and F…

What mobile browser you like? Safari? Firefox is pretty good on a modern android phone (my Mate 20 Pro)

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Post by noir_lord »

I just open three browsers.

Vivaldi for music, long running stuff, gmail, Jira.

Firefox for searching, transient stuff.

Chrome for its dev tools.

It means I can kill either FF and Chrome entirely at any point and lose nothing valuable, not interrupt anything.

That and I don’t hoard tabs, I either bookmark and close or just close and use the history.

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Post by k__ »

I started doing "inbox zero" ten years a go and somehow ended up in a bit of an OCD situation.

Now I have to close/archive anything I'm not currently using.

Emails, apps, tabs, background processes, messenger contacts.

If I dealt with it and isn't something that is used on a regular basis, like the WhatsApp conversations of my partners, it has to go.

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Post by stonewareslord »

Vinnl wrote: post #190
rconti wrote: post #169

I was a VERY late convert to tabs, and I only use them for browsers now (and not all the time, either). I always felt that the OS X command-tilde functionality, for switching between windows the same way you switch through applications using command-tab, was superior. You're always switching between the most recently used windows, chronologically. You can even remember when something was several keystrokes back, and…

New Firefox installs have Ctrl+tab run chronologically, and you can this behaviour for existing installs as well if you want.

I cannot stand this functionality and it's the first thing I disable on new installations. For me, Ctrl+tab is right and Ctrl+shift+tab is left.

I much prefer Firefox's awesome bar navigation when jumping around. % app will show all tabs with a title or URL containing app, * yo does the same for bookmarks containing yo, and ^ for history.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-keyboard-sh...

Edit: unfortunately, the % shortcut does not work with containers.

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Post by opan »

aidos wrote: post #15

I 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 used to use tab groups and have hundreds of tabs in Firefox some years back. Now, like you, I close things as soon as I don't need them.

Anything unpinned is temporary, and I only pin a few tabs. I also heavily bookmark and quickmark (qutebrowser) things and can usually get back to them easily.

I don't remember what changed my behavior, but I had incidents in the past with running out of RAM and swap and my whole PC hanging despite having 16GB of RAM, so I probably just scared myself straight.

Things feel cleaner when I have fewer tabs, which I think contributes to my mood being better. If I'm ever partway through a deep-dive or project that involves a lot of open tabs, I find I feel stressed. Sometimes I even decide enough is enough and close them all, feeling near-instant relief.

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Post by iaml »

techdragon wrote: post #189
1MachineElf wrote: post #50

I am one such tab-overloaded computer user. There are a few tools that help me effectively manage a large number of tabs. (No, Firefox's Tree Style Tabs isn't one of them - while it is great, it is not powerful enough for me.) The best experience I've had so far is with Tabs Outliner for Google Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. I find that it's UI requires the least amount of clicks and remains performant even when…

I scrolled all the way to here since I expected way more mentions of Tabs Outliner. It’s kept me stuck on Chrome for so long, but now with the death of The Great Suspender extension my hand has been forced to build my own personal replacement as I want to get off chrome again… Losing the great suspender means I can’t in concert with Tabs Outliner switch in and out groups of dozens of tabs at a time. Now doing this ch…

>I’ve got to the point where the design for the tool im building to replace this, must have a query language or just raw SQL power search box to get to whatever underlying dB stores it all (probably going to be Sqlite)

I'm not sure you know this, but nowadays browsers have low-level sql-like api called indexeddb[0] which may fit your needs without using sqlite.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/IndexedDB_A...

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Post by dredmorbius »

Synaesthesia wrote: post #212
dredmorbius wrote: post #197

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chrome's response to numerous power-user / user-respect features over the past 15 years has absolutely convinced me that it has no interest in supporting either notion. Audio/video autoplay, adblock, tabs navigation and retrieval, user state generally, and more. I still use Chrome on Android in two cases: 1. On an old device in which Firefox/Fennec performance is abysmal. (On a newer device, there's no contest, and F…

What mobile browser you like? Safari? Firefox is pretty good on a modern android phone (my Mate 20 Pro)

Quite frankly, none.

Fennec is the least objectionable, generally. EinkBro is quite well-suited to e-ink devices.

https://fossdroid.com/a/einkbro.html

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Post by catchmeifyoucan »

Dyac wrote: post #209
catchmeifyoucan wrote: post #115

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Hi. I may have something for ya. I'm building Amna ( https://getamna.com ) which manages tabs with tasks. Amna can do this (kind of). If you don't explicitly "close" a a browser window within Amna, it will just minimize the window. So it preserves the state (e.g scroll), while still giving you freedom to work on something else with a clean slate. It's not perfect, since the tabs aren't really closed, they'd be just o…

Is it possible to import tasks from other systems? Across my business we already use asana, trello, Jira and Monday, and there's also Google tasks in Gmail. Right now I use tacoapp to bring them all into one screen, literally just the title and link to the task. Can you do something similar?

Thanks for sharing, I hadn’t heard of taco app before.

That’s where I want to get to. For now you can import Google or Microsoft Tasks.

I’ve been working on a integrations library for all of these services:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/integrations-lib

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