Need a browser with one Tab

#1

Post by bhoomit » Wed, May 22, 2013, 3:48 AM UTC

Need a browser with one Tab
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Re: Need a browser with one Tab

#2

Post by chewxy » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:36 AM UTC

Opera had multitab browsing before Firefox did (or Phoenix). But then again Opera was paid software at that point.

Nowadays I have a personal rule: If there are more than 10 tabs per browser, close until 10 tabs remain. Unless one of the tabs is this: http://i.imgur.com/9yacZ5b.jpg

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

#3

Post by jhacks » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:38 AM UTC

I personally experience this problem. However, I "solve" it by opening up a few windows. I use specific windows for specific content. So, window #1 is random articles I set aside to read, #2 is work-related research, and so on. It's still not ideal, but better than nothing. I think the issue is that there is only one convenient way to organize open documents -> VERTICALLY. It's just much easier to scan and scroll through (and can't get the issue where the tabs are quickly indiscernible due to lack of space).

Ideal solution (IMO) is multiple browser windows horizontally and tabbed content within each vertically.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

#4

Post by bhoomit » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:38 AM UTC

chewxy wrote: post #2

Opera had multitab browsing before Firefox did (or Phoenix). But then again Opera was paid software at that point. Nowadays I have a personal rule: If there are more than 10 tabs per browser, close until 10 tabs remain. Unless one of the tabs is this: http://i.imgur.com/9yacZ5b.jpg

Thanks :), noted and will make the edit.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

#5

Post by duck » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:43 AM UTC

I'm building something (simple) to help with part of this as I known I face the same thing on a daily basis as well, but one thing I can recommend now is using http://www.one-tab.com/. It works well and I find myself not saving things off to read later, but instead just using it to find it.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

#6

Post by nemo1618 » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:45 AM UTC

If you actually need a browser with just one tab, try surf: http://surf.suckless.org/

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

#7

Post by projectdelphai » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:49 AM UTC

jhacks wrote: post #3

I personally experience this problem. However, I "solve" it by opening up a few windows. I use specific windows for specific content. So, window #1 is random articles I set aside to read, #2 is work-related research, and so on. It's still not ideal, but better than nothing. I think the issue is that there is only one convenient way to organize open documents -> VERTICALLY. It's just much easier to scan and scroll thr…

Rather than multiple windows, I prefer the tab groups feature from firefox. Keeps all my tabs in one window but keeps the other groups isolated and away.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

#8

Post by bhoomit » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:50 AM UTC

duck wrote: post #5

I'm building something (simple) to help with part of this as I known I face the same thing on a daily basis as well, but one thing I can recommend now is using http://www.one-tab.com/ . It works well and I find myself not saving things off to read later, but instead just using it to find it.

I've tried it few weeks back, but ended up having 5-6 "one tabs" :( In this case I'm probably too lazy to keep things organized.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by jhacks » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:51 AM UTC

projectdelphai wrote: post #7

jhacks wrote: post #3

I personally experience this problem. However, I "solve" it by opening up a few windows. I use specific windows for specific content. So, window #1 is random articles I set aside to read, #2 is work-related research, and so on. It's still not ideal, but better than nothing. I think the issue is that there is only one convenient way to organize open documents -> VERTICALLY. It's just much easier to scan and scroll thr…

Rather than multiple windows, I prefer the tab groups feature from firefox. Keeps all my tabs in one window but keeps the other groups isolated and away.

I'll have to see if chrome has a similar feature.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by smacktoward » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:51 AM UTC

You might want to sit down for this. Are you sitting down? Good.

The browser you want is Internet Explorer.

(I know, right? But I'm serious!)

IE lets you turn off tabbed browsing completely with a simple settings change. The following steps are how you do it in Windows 7/IE 10, they may vary slightly for other versions of Windows or IE.

1) Go to Control Panel > Internet Options.

2) Go to the "General" tab.

3) Click the button labeled "Tabs".

4) In the dialog box that pops up, titled "Tabbed Browsing Settings," un-check the box labeled "Enable Tabbed Browsing."

5) Click "OK."

That's it, you now have your 1998-style tabless browser! Enjoy.

But smacktoward, I'm not on Windows! What do I do for a tabless browser on other platforms?

Despair, mostly. You can turn off most tabbed-browsing features in Firefox (go to Options > Tabs and un-check everything), but all that does is suppress things like new windows opening in new tabs; you can still manually open new tabs if you want to. AFAIK Chrome has no way to turn off or suppress tabbed browsing at all.

But come on, you're looking for a real Clinton-era browsing experience! Chrome didn't even exist back then, and nobody used Macs. So spin up a Windows VM, un-tabify IE, pop in a Third Eye Blind CD and go to town.