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Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by j0rd72 »

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…

At work, I use Vivaldi's tab stacks to group tabs by the GH issue I'm working on. So the issue, PR(s), and app tab(s) go in the same stack. It's very handy.

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Post by joe200 »

quesera wrote: post #175
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…

> 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…

How do you organise them across many windows ? I found it difficult to categorize them by topic (i.e. one window with topic X, another window by topic Y and so on)

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Post by Tadpole9181 »

m4r1k wrote: post #63

Apparently, they've also released a new profile manager that's finally simpler than the clunky earlier one. This is the last feature I really need for my workflow to completely ditch Chrome. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-management

And they once again neglect the killer "Mutli-Account Containers" [1] feature: profiles only work per-window.

Seems like they're just here to copy-cat Chrome's similar feature. And worse than the feature they already have, that just needs some polishing.

I simply don't understand Mozilla's desperate need to ruin this browser. Added tab groups first? Removed. Added multi-account containers first? Used for advertising VPN and then abandoned. Fights for web standards? Doesn't prepare during planning and takes years implementing them.

[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

Re: Firefox tab groups are here

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Post by usecodenaija »

While Firefox's tab groups are a great addition, it's intriguing to consider whether relying on traditional tab groups is keeping us from embracing more innovative solutions like BrowserGPT by CivAI.

BrowserGPT not only manages tasks but does so with voice commands, offering a forward-thinking approach to browsing automation. Are we holding onto old habits at the expense of exploring groundbreaking technology?

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