How does one quickly find the right window when you have a few open?
This is why I only keep one open.
Firefox tab groups are here
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#292Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a different question to ask "how will you access it?" and "have you abandoned the hope of accessing it again?" Sometimes they come up in my search results in the Omnibar. Open tabs are in the top rank of results.
The omnibar feature also searches your bookmarks and history, so they are recoverable using the same method if you closed the tab. But that depends on you thinking to bookmark the page; or accepting that some things will age out of the browser history. So I guess it's kind of like a fragile bookmark: probably reliable, but not the end of the world if tab restoration failed for some reason. Also, (I assume) tabs retai…
I haven't regularly bookmarked sites in a decade or more. The bookmarks are in my head, and I can live with the Omnibar mostly reliably surfacing the things I didn't finish, and later recall and want to pick up.
That said, I'm pretty sure the Omnibar is buggy at finding tabs. I inevitably have several tabs to gmail "open". It ought to be a lot easier than it is to find /return to the last-used gmail tab, and not one of the several from previous browsing sessions. :)
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#293These HN threads with people that have 20K tabs living for years are so wild! I guess I'm the only savage in the world who closes my browser window and quits the browser application whenever I'm done with my computer for the day. I occasionally use tabs to temporarily have one or two web pages open at a time, usually because I need to browse/compare both of them actively, but when I'm not actively reading a page, I s…
I´m pretty much the same now. I tried bookmarking everything in a dated folder "just in case" blabla but I always ended up either forgetting the site or if I really need it find and reopen it the normal way. Since I transitioned to Obsidian recently I wrote a few simple macros to put the link into my "daily note". Add a few tags or even a comment if I am so inclined and boom, so far when I really want to find sth bac…
This is very much a tangent, but I blinked a few times here:
> I'm currently on a really small machine (8 GB RAM)
Thanks to the proliferation of electron apps I suppose you're correct. But wow!
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#294I 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…
>Can someone explain what normal people use so many tabs for? Basically, bookmarking webpages has been broken since the 1990s. It was (still is?) too difficult to bookmark something with a meaningful name so that you can find it again. Bookmarking is (without extensions... there's one that saves them to Nextcloud) local, so you have them stranded on a work computer or a home computer or your phone. And, they go stale…
> But note-taking software's probably more difficult to get right than bookmarking.
Joplin? I’m a happy user. There are several (mostly-free) competitors.
You’re going to have to pay for your OwnCloud instance to host the info one way or the other, unless you’re hoping to leech as a free user for an essential part of your workflow.
Re: Firefox tab groups are here
#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a different question to ask "how will you access it?" and "have you abandoned the hope of accessing it again?" Sometimes they come up in my search results in the Omnibar. Open tabs are in the top rank of results.
The omnibar feature also searches your bookmarks and history, so they are recoverable using the same method if you closed the tab. But that depends on you thinking to bookmark the page; or accepting that some things will age out of the browser history. So I guess it's kind of like a fragile bookmark: probably reliable, but not the end of the world if tab restoration failed for some reason. Also, (I assume) tabs retai…
The only stuff I tend to bookmark are things I want to use as a keyword search, everything else is a tab in a certain window. There's not enough of them that I have to search to find, maybe a fifty in total?
There is the rare bookmark in my toolbar tabs for undetermined future stuff.
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If you like Arc but would prefer if it was open source and/or non-Blink/Chromium, Zen is based on Firefox but with an Arc-like interface. https://zen-browser.app/
Poor UI, judging by the screenshots on that page. Another piece of software that treats users as imbeciles in dire need of being saved from "clutter".
It's pretty much a 1:1 copy of arc, which IMO has the best browser UI/UX I have used.
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#297Does Mozilla still steal everything I type into FF and sell it? Or just steal it? Does it?
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#298Earlier 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. ;-)
I just wanted to say thank you to all you mad tab hungry folks for making me feel both seen and comparatively sane.
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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…
Wow! My total bookmarks in raindrops are much less than that. The moment I reach 30ish tabs I start experiencing micro panic attacks.
can you describe that in more detail???
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#300Wow, this is a fantastic feature that was heavily requested, and HN cannot stop being negative. Great job Mozilla. I was already using the awesome “Simple Tab Groups” extension for this but will look into switching.
I've been liking the new vertical tabs too.