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Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by fmoralesc » Wed, May 22, 2013, 6:37 AM UTC

thristian wrote: post #23

With Firefox's tab-groups, the fact it doesn't load tabs at startup until you switch to them, and the TreeStyleTabs extension I can easily and efficiently have over a hundred tabs "open" and everything still stays fast and efficient and uncluttered. Basically, I never use bookmarks anymore - when I'm researching some topic, I do a bunch of searches, open a bunch of interesting results, and when I need to task-switch…

I do the same. Tab groups in Firefox effectively solve the problem of having too many tabs, IMHO.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by gabipurcaru » Wed, May 22, 2013, 6:40 AM UTC

I do this too, like everyone else, but when I notice there are too many tabs opened, I just bite the bullet and close everything except for the currently opened tab (and sometimes close that too). Manual garbage collector.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by Pengwin » Wed, May 22, 2013, 6:41 AM UTC

nemo1618 wrote: post #6

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

This works incredibly well for a single site browser, thanks for the info!

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by bhoomit » Wed, May 22, 2013, 6:59 AM UTC

IvyMike wrote: post #36

The Tab Count extension in Chrome lets me know that I have 88 tabs open right now. Things usually get out of control somewhere around 150. I do know by experience that 256 is NOT a limit. Please forgive the ridiculous chrome webstore URL, but here's the extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-count/cfokcacd...

In my 1280x800 resolution screen it's impossible to find needed tabs after 35+ tabs(i can't see the favicons).

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by uulbiy » Wed, May 22, 2013, 7:30 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…

K-Meleon[1] also provides an option to turn off tabbed browsing. Just go to Edit > Preferences > Browsing > Tabbed Browsing and uncheck the "Enable Tabbed Browsing" checkbox.

NOTE #1: K-Meleon's last update was 3 years ago.

NOTE #2: If you are using multiple proxies it has a built-in menu to switch between them. This is its "killer" feature

[1]: http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/download.php

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by bowerbird » Wed, May 22, 2013, 8:37 AM UTC

i'd like it if the browser would download the page, and save it to my hard-drive, with a summary title (which it might have to generate after an analysis), and then re-load it whenever i wanted to view it... (and delete it entirely when instructed to do that.)

in other words, use disk-space instead of memory...

-bowerbird

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by JanJanJan » Wed, May 22, 2013, 9:59 AM UTC

1. Read Later/Instapaper. 2. Manual garbage collection. 3. Tab Ahead. Sublime Text's »Go To Anything«-like Chrome extension to help me navigate through the unavoidable mess of my open tabs. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-ahead/naoajjeo...

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by 3JPLW » Wed, May 22, 2013, 4:09 PM UTC

nikcub wrote: post #27

I always have 2-5 windows open with 5-30 tabs in each. This is an interface problem that needs to be solved, nobody really needs that many tabs open. It becomes ridiculous when you don't want to update your browser incase you lose all your tabs. I noticed that I am really using tabs as a form of nascent bookmarking. Each window is a group or project and serves as a reading list, and then each tab is an item to read.…

I think the real issue is that back and forward do not work.

They destroy state. They lose their place on the page. They're still not immediate. They've broken server sessions so often that I have (as most have, I imagine) conditioned myself to completely avoid using them.

Tabs were invaluable in the days of slow connections. But new pages load pretty fast these days. The problem is getting back to the original page is fraught with trouble.

Re: Need a browser with one Tab

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Post by qu4z-2 » Thu, May 23, 2013, 6:54 AM UTC

nemo1618 wrote: post #6

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

I will second this recommendation. I'm a big surf fanboy.

Not only does it force me to focus a bit more, but in my experience it loads pages significantly faster than Chrome or Firefox. Which I wouldn't have thought possible, but there you go.

Also, make sure you use a recent version if you need the Web Inspector.