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Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by speakspokespok »

jaytemple wrote: post #3
taraparo wrote: post #2

I settled down on SideBerry after having used Tree Tab Style for ages: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ It adds contexts/categories. So you can have trees of tabs per topic.

Is there an authoritative way hiding the horizontal tab with SideBerry?

This works on the LTS version of Firefox but needs an update if you’re running the latest version.

Type about:config in the address bar and press Enter to load it.

In the search box above the list, type userprof and pause while the list is filtered. If you do not see anything on the list, ignore this step.

Switch toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets preference from false to true.

Type about:support in the address bar and press Enter to load it.

Note the Profile Directory.

cd to Profile Directory and create a folder called chrome.

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mkdir chrome;

cat ./chrome/userChrome.css #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; }

EOF

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In Firefox again:

Restart all Firefox sessions.

Right click anywhere menu section of Firefox, and check 'Menu Bar'.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by infl8ed »

I've settled on AllTabsHelper https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/all-tabs-help...

Not as full featured as some of the others but does what I need.

I wish any of the tab managers would allow me to sort by domain, as it is I've installed a second add on just to do this https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/order-tabs-by...

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by progx »

miroljub wrote: post #9

I don't want to piss on the OP effort, some people will find it useful. For me, I don't understand the problem. Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander?

It should be implemented on os-system level, so you can access the content, no matter with which app.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by tuukkah »

miroljub wrote: post #9

I don't want to piss on the OP effort, some people will find it useful. For me, I don't understand the problem. Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander?

People use all their cloud services via Firefox, not so much via Word.

Also, you may be writing one document but have a hundred tabs open for research.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by Sujeto »

throwaway914 wrote: post #10
taraparo wrote: post #2

I settled down on SideBerry after having used Tree Tab Style for ages: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/ It adds contexts/categories. So you can have trees of tabs per topic.

Sidebery is wonderful, but the real gem is Tab Stash. Lets me organize tabs into topic-related groups, with the added bonus that not all of these are "living" tabs. Some are archived/hibernated. By default, live tabs are in an unorganized/unnamed group. The only issue I had was I couldn't tell which tab was playing audio. Tab Stash doesn't have indicators for this, so I installed the Sound Control extension to list t…

In grasshopper you can organize through tags, and colors, which create profiles mapped to urls, so they also apply for instance if you are in History view. The profile can be set to match the root, or the exact url. You can also filter different kinds of tabs, like unloaded, or playing. There's also a button that appears when a tab is playing, to go back to that tab (focus it).

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by ccakes »

If any Firefox devs or PMs are reading, PLEASE build even a simple tab grouper into the browser natively.

Regardless how recommended a given extension is, all tab manager extensions require access to all web content which is too much. I’d rather use something built in but barebones rather than an addon

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by vladvasiliu »

progx wrote: post #13
miroljub wrote: post #9

I don't want to piss on the OP effort, some people will find it useful. For me, I don't understand the problem. Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander?

It should be implemented on os-system level, so you can access the content, no matter with which app.

Yeah. I don't understand why modern browsers don't allow disabling tabs. I already have a window manager that's quite good at managing windows. I don't need another level for that with its own rules.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by burner420042 »

miroljub wrote: post #9

I don't want to piss on the OP effort, some people will find it useful. For me, I don't understand the problem. Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander?

For myself at least vertical tabs can be easily grouped to visually show task or subject. If I’m doing ticket work for example,each ticket gets a main tab with their related child tabs indented underneath. I’ve even written a small web app that creates custom tab titles which I use for organizing tabs.

Lack of vertical tabs is why I don’t use Chrome.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by capableweb »

miroljub wrote: post #9

I don't want to piss on the OP effort, some people will find it useful. For me, I don't understand the problem. Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander?

> Why do so many people need a tab manager in say Firefox, but not in Word, Excel, Windows Explorer or Total Commander

I guess you could call me a "tab hoarder", I commonly have 50+ tabs open for the various topics and contexts I'm browsing and switching between. I usually also always restore my previous session from the day before, so some of the tabs are 2 weeks old but I have yet to finish the thing they're related to, so they stay up.

Compared to other applications that I close/open without restoring the previous context. I guess the terminal/tmux is the one that has the most context, and there I usually have 5-10 tabs open at any given time, for the same reason as above. And then I do use a manager of sorts (tmux), but for all the rest, I'm just opening/closing things as needed.

Re: Show HN: Advanced Tab Manager for Firefox

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Post by svlasov »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #17
progx wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It should be implemented on os-system level, so you can access the content, no matter with which app.

Yeah. I don't understand why modern browsers don't allow disabling tabs. I already have a window manager that's quite good at managing windows. I don't need another level for that with its own rules.

Having a separate window per tab will consume more resources, than showing only a single tab content at a time.
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