Interesting choice to use some sort of proprietary OS scripting language instead of just writing a standard WebExtension, I thought. Presumably chrome.tabs.query would have returned all tabs and a native manifest would've allowed comms with the outside world to build a HTTP server. Still, I suppose the approach taken by the author worked at the end of the day - just not very portable.
I closed a lot of browser tabs
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Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#32Is that a lot? I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14. I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
When you have this many tabs, do you actively manage them or even have any idea what they contain. How do you find the information you need amongst 3000+ tabs. Isn't it annoying to have to shuffle through lots of windows with lots of tabs? I start to lose track after a dozen or so.
once it gets to the thousands it breaks down, but in my experience spatial memory + pattern matching on favicons works surprisingly well to navigate a large number of tabs.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#33Maybe this a generation thing, I never have more than 10 open, on average. Anything worth keeping, bookmarks.
Tabs are the better bookmarks imho. They can also be directly searched in the address bar, but are treated consistently like every other tab and stay more visible than items in some hidden list. They're also just as persistent as bookmarks; last time I reinstalled my system I just copy-pasted the Firefox profile over and instantly had the exact same session back. Of course that's based on the assumption I don't switc…
Do you use any particular workflows or extensions to manage a large number of tabs? I don't how a tab bar with 40+ tabs is useable, even if tabs persist through crashes and restarts.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#34I open almost all links in new tabs because the sites became too large.
Simple pressing "Back" in the browser takes too much time, but I can quickly switch to the previous tab.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#35What I want is a History functionality that allows me to better search through visited pages. Firefox does this, but they only show the page title, which is often not sufficiently descriptive. They should show search results like DDG/Google shows them. With a better search, I wouldn't feel the need to keep so many tabs open.
That’s what was “to be native” in Cliqz. They were indexing url, title and I’m not sure about content was in plan or implemented - forgot my trials. But they approached exactly that issue in their browser (Firefox fork). There was something like internal index which was pre-fetched and updated next to user data which were added while using. All that was 1 search, 2nd was going to internet. That was really cool idea.
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#36Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…
Interesting, been annoyed about this for years. I'm bookmarking things both in Chrome and on the Samsung internet mobile browser and neither prioritizes my bookmarks when I start typing something in the search bar. It actually seems completely random, sometimes a bookmark shows up, sometimes it shows 5 rows down, often not at all. Weird, bookmarking a site should count as a pretty strong a signal that I might want to see that page again...
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#37I discovered that many tabs for me are indicative of my own laziness and lack of discipline and an unhealthy tendency to multitask. Now I pay attention (not just about tabs but also about my desktop files, and the cleanness of my actual desk) and I am happier for it. Optimal number of tabs: < 5, with 1 being Youtube playing some ambient music, 1 being JIRA, one being Github.
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#38Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…
Very much this.
I've attempted (largely unsuccessfully) to try to use Pocket (also a Mozilla product) to address this. The problem with Pocket is that it gets worse the more you use it. From four years ago:
https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_...
A couple of those issues have been addressed. There's now "find in page" on the Android app, and editing tags is very slightly improved. But overall, Pocket remains a roach motel: articles check in but they never check out.
What I really want is a persistant, local, tagged, searchable, entirely-offline-usable archive of content. There seems to be little interest (or supreme obstacles) in providing this. (I've looked at Zotero, Calibre, and Mendalay, none really suit my workflow.)
I've utterly given up any hope of browser vendors delivering this.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#39Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…
Yes, a good bookmarking/archiving/... solution would likely solve this for many people.
You could try TinyGem
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#40Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…
I'm currently trying to solve this and more in an application called Cleave.
Cleave lets users persist OS state as a "context" - saving and loading open applications, their windows (and their positions), tabs, open files/documents and so on. Think of it as a workspace or project manager from an IDE, but on the OS-level.
I started working on it because of frequent multitasking of heavy work with limited resources; Made it because I wanted to switch between studying, working, reading, looking for an apartment, etc. without manually managing all states or consuming all resources.
I'll release an Open Beta (macOS) as soon as I finish license verification and delta updates, but I keep getting sidetracked...
In the meantime, I've used various browser extensions to save and restore open tabs.