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Post by asqueella »

bityard wrote: post #222
canadianwriter wrote: post #3

I never have more than like 10 tabs open at a time, so likely wont be helpful to me, but I find this super interesting! Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? It seems to be super common to have tons and tons open. Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Afraid to close the page because they wont find it in their history or bookmarks? Is this more an issue wit…

How about I try a metaphor: Imagine you work in a building. Inside the building, there are multiple rooms. Each room has a different project going on inside it. In one room, you are building a canoe. In another, you are restoring a motorcycle. Another is a music production studio. And so on. Every day, you enter this hypothetical building to get some work done in one or more of the rooms. Now imagine every night whil…

A perfect metaphor for Windows auto-update!

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Post by chupasaurus »

firefax wrote: post #194
chupasaurus wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pinning tabs is very bad for YouTube because they are always rendered and thus always leaking.

Can you elaborate on this? What does "always rendered" mean?

Basically they have a higher priority than regular tabs, mentioned here [0] in context of unloading and the same applies to execution scheduling.

[0] https://hacks.mozilla.org/2021/10/tab-unloading-in-firefox-9...

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by karaterobot »

jerf wrote: post #193
PaulDavisThe1st wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have almost 2000 tabs open. I use sideberry for tab management. > Are people using tabs as a soft bookmark of basically anything interesting? Yep, that's as good a description as any. I have a lot of tabs that I'm not "finished with" in any finite amount of time. Case in point: currently shopping for a steam generator for a steam shower. I have about 30-40 tabs open to different models, stores, reviews, data pages…

"To be honest, it's a not a great system in that stuff falls off my radar." That's a feature, not a bug. A system that doesn't let things fall off your radar is a taskmaster, not a servant. You have to let things fall off your radar.

Maybe not, if there's no way to differentiate between something that has fallen off the radar, and something that is currently on the radar (I mean that all the tabs are in one big flat list, no matter if they're relevant or not). Also, if additional cruft increases the search time (i.e. how long does it take me to find the right tab from among these 2000 open ones) then each unused tab is a small additional burden. I'm not arguing for or against any position that works for anybody, I'm just pointing out some possible wrinkles I see from the outside.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by dao- »

saurik wrote: post #145
guerby wrote: post #111

about:config and then set browser.tabs.groups.enabled I'm really puzzled by the UI, you have to drag and drop a tab onto another to create a tab group. This really sucks because now when you want to move a tab you have to be pixel and timing exact to not create a tab group. Most of the time when moving a tab I end up creating a tab group then having to right click and then "ungroup tab" Also you cannot move tab group…

FWIW, that was also my experience when Edge added this feature. It was particularly annoying as I did not ever want to use the feature. I guess Firefox wanted to be bug-for-bug compatible? :(

In about:config, try looking for browser.tabs.dragDrop. The createGroup... and moveOverThresholdPercent flags control the group creation behavior during drag and drop. If anyone finds values that make it less likely to accidentally create groups while still allowing intentional grouping via drag and drop, I can channel these back to the team.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by antonchekhov »

smilliken wrote: post #143
badgersnake wrote: post #121

Shame Google Meet doesn’t work anymore.

Works in firefox for many people I work with. Perhaps worth troubleshooting? Or maybe Google serves different bits to different people.

Window-sharing doesn't work at all in Firefox (last several versions) on macOS 15.4; Safari works fine for Google Meet events.

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Post by seba_dos1 »

m4rtink wrote: post #188
quesera wrote: post #175

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have almost 2000 tabs open. I use sideberry for tab management. I'm just here to report that Firefox + Sidebery continues to work perfectly well at 14571 "open" tabs. All but a few hundred are unloaded, and I block JavaScript fairly aggressively. Currently measuring 1992 MB, explicitly allocated. I won't argue with anyone who tells me that I have a problem, but I will say that Firefox and Sidebery make my problem…

Can report that my testing indicates 40k+ tabs is doable with unloading on a 64 GB machine, across multiple Firefox windows with tree style tab. Since task manager has been introduced, making it easy to unload whole related tab groups its even easier to reach absurd total tab counts. ;-)

It's doable with a single window on a 16 GB RAM machine as well.

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by reustle »

GordonS wrote: post #184
eviks wrote: post #144

Glad thousands of users who managed to find their feature voting site pushed Mozilla to do a few baby steps Though the current interface isn't good - mandatory group names (which also waste space in the precious tab bar by default) and inability to ungroup with a single key (due to naming conflict) - adds too much friction. Also drag&drop to group is too precise, but also can't be disable, so now you can't reliably m…

I'd love to be able to use an icon instead of names - maybe it could let you select a favicon from one of the member tabs.

You can use a single emoji as a group name
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