Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

I see a section in the link you provided that reads:

> "Chrome OS may send a non-unique promotional tag to Google periodically (including during initial setup) and when performing searches with Google."

Sure Chrome may not be sending a GUID with every request. That wasn't my point. To clarify, my point was that Google has a GUID (your Google account, and likely other forms of ID) that identify you pretty clearly across devices/Chrome instances. I saw nothing in the policy you linked that said Google AdSense and other Google ad services (DoubleClick tags, GA, etc.) do not use that information to link identities across devices for purposes of tracking.

The AdWords and GA teams have rolled out significant advances in cross-device tracking over the past year or two, including new metrics and reports in the respective platforms. It seems pretty obvious to me that this is a data point that is factored into making that link.

But again, I'd love to be proven wrong if I missed a section of your link that explicitly says otherwise.

> To clarify, my point was that Google has a GUID (your Google account, and likely other forms of ID) that identify you pretty clearly across devices/Chrome instances.

I think the privacy policy is quite clear that Chrome does nothing here that other browsers don't do. Obviously if you have a Google cookie from signing in to the website then that's going to identify you pretty clearly, but that's just how cookies work, and would be exactly the same in any other browser. I'd like to specifically direct your attention to the first three paragraphs of the policy, and in particular:

"If you use Chrome to access other Google services, such as using the search engine on the Google homepage or checking Gmail, the fact that you are using Chrome does not mean that Google will receive any special or additional personally identifiable information about you."

> I saw nothing in the policy you linked that said Google AdSense and other Google ad services (DoubleClick tags, GA, etc.) do not use that information to link identities across devices for purposes of tracking.

I wouldn't expect to find any information about how AdSense works in the Chrome policy. The privacy policy for ads is over here and discusses this topic: http://www.google.co.uk/policies/technologies/ads/

Thanks :)

Web browsers are used for multiple activities...

Something I've concluded Web browser developers put insufficient thought into. They're also far too often optimizing for content providers and advertisers rather than readers.

...a whole set of tabs ... related to a general activity...

Quite. And I'll often have multiple projects going on, each with their own set of related references.

The failure of the Desktop (and GUI) paradigms in general to reflect this is a growing and tremendous frustration of mine. Our activities are organized and grouped by application and increasingly by Web silo rather than by task. It's where the UNIX shell philosophy is increadibly powerful, and the abilty to both create different "workspaces" (generally: directories) for projects, and to string data through commands and pipelines, is phenomenally useful.

Just to highlight a frustration: increasingly desktop tools are utilizing Web tools for documentation. I arrange my work by Workspace. So when I fire off the Help command in a particular utility ... a browser tab opens somewhere three workspaces away, that I'm not aware of. Often in the midst of a bunch of other unrelated tabs....

For example...

Excellent use cases, and while my own work differs in details, the general outline is the same: different tasks, often persisting across days, weeks, months, or even years, but alternating with time, which I wish to group. Often quite complex and involving many related sites and/or pages. And retaining that user state is at an extreme premium.

Bookmarks don't cut it for me in this regard....

I'm leaning toward a middle ground between Bookmarks, History, and some level of annotation. Readability is an interesting experiment but ultimately frustrating and limiting.

My own curated lists of stuff are somewhat useful but extremely tedious to create. My subreddit is as much a bookmarking tool (of both Websites / references, and my own thoughts) as it is a publication and discussion.

The ability to create and readily access sets of bookmarks, tag and tab them, filter them usefully (by tag, author, site, dates, etc.) would be tremendously useful.

I'd really love a browser feature which let me search for text within pages I'd recently visited (hour, day, week, month, ...). Often what I'm looking for is something I've already recently visited.

It is* possible to organize Bookmarks hierarchically, etc. But I find that the UI/UX for doing this in numerous browsers is simply tedious beyond description.

...some combination of tab pinning, tab groups and tree style tabs, and tab suspension/delayed loading...

Yes to all of this.

For Pinning, I'd prefer to simply break out Web Apps as their own local app instance. Not associated with a browser at all. While Web-as-App-delivery is interesting, it's ultimately highly frustrating in my experience. A neither-man-nor-beast experience.

Tab groups...

I'll need to play with that.

Tree Style Tabs...

I use and love the plugin (for Firefox), and use it much as you do Tab Groups from what I can tell.

...tab stacking...

Not familiar with that.

...delayed loading of tabs...

Genius.

1. Memory management/unloading of old tabs

2. Tab group classification or tagging

4. Open the browser to the tab overview page

A-fucking-men to all of this. Your point that there is no overview page for tabs, or similarly that there is not way to perform group operations on tabs, is another massive failing.

Is vimperator still actively developed and compatible with the latest Firefox? I switched over to the fork, Pentadactyl some years ago.