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Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by MatthewRayfield » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:52 AM UTC

nemo1618 wrote: post #6

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

Is there info anywhere on running Surf on Mac OS ?

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by lifthrasiir » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:58 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 have once used OneTab. In the end, it was totally useless for me since it completely destroyed my external memory in the form of browser tabs. Hiding inactive tabs was definitely an wrong solution.

My two cents: The human behavior on tabs is surprisingly akin to garbage collection. Therefore I think we need some solution inspired by the incremental, generational GC. Gradually disappearing tabs may be such solution, for example. Many tabs are created in a group, and such group is garbage-collected altogether; pinned tabs behave like a statically allocated memory; the GC has to be able to determine if the tab is created in the context of other tabs or it is independent to others; if I don't want tabs to be disappeared then I can go to the tab for the extended period to signal the GC not to hide this tab for now; etc.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by venomsnake » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:02 AM UTC

The part I don't get is the slowing down of the system. Even with 100+ tabs open chrome rarely gets above few gigabytes of ram combined and hardly utilizes more than a core.

My tab coping strategy is - just keep them open, every few days close all. If I havent checked it in 24 hours chances are it is not important.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by cwzwarich » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:03 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

Opera wasn't the first browser with tabbed browsing by far. There were a lot of Windows browsers that embedded the Trident engine, and some of them used variants of MDI for browsing. A few of them used tabs, the first well-known one being NetCaptor. Interestingly enough, it put the tabs on the bottom, which makes a bit more sense from a Fitts' Law perspective than putting the tabs near the other controls. This was a few years before Opera switched to tabbed browsing.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by ruficornis » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:03 AM UTC

1. Lynx 2. http://surf.suckless.org/ 3. http://suckless.org/rocks

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by Orva » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:05 AM UTC

jhacks wrote: post #9

projectdelphai wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It doesn't have one that works as well as Firefox tab groups and will never have because of AddOn permissions/APIs.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by prawn » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:08 AM UTC

A friend recommended I try The Great Suspender* (Chrome extension) for dealing with tab overload. I tried it and then disabled it - just didn't seem to work for me for whatever reason. Might be of use to others though.

My current method is to split tabs across various windows. I have 61 tabs open across eight windows (general, project, travel research, accounting, time tracking, articles, etc). It was 80+ last night but I made an effort to cull a few.

Sometimes I use tabs like bookmarks, storing things for later. Articles to read, Wikipedia pages I want to explore, music mixes I plan to download or stream, something I will buy when I can be bothered remembering the password for that store account, etc. It's quite pathetic really.

* https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by bhoomit » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:09 AM UTC

venomsnake wrote: post #13

The part I don't get is the slowing down of the system. Even with 100+ tabs open chrome rarely gets above few gigabytes of ram combined and hardly utilizes more than a core. My tab coping strategy is - just keep them open, every few days close all. If I havent checked it in 24 hours chances are it is not important.

It does slow down my system. I'm using MacPro i5, 4GB RAM for development. In my case machine gave up when you try to debug JS/watch video on youtube when you have so many tabs open.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by flexd » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:16 AM UTC

I use http://kippt.com/ to store things I want to read later.. I still end up having 50+++ tabs but that way I can close things I haven't read and put them into a queue.. some day I might read them.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by dmix » Wed, May 22, 2013, 5:16 AM UTC

smacktoward wrote: post #10

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 t…

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