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Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by proee »

This seems a little 'too much' for me. Though I wouldn't mind having a tab-candy type manager that automatically groups all tabs of the same domain into one group.

This way I could close all pages of a particular site at once and clean up the Bazillion tabs I have open in my browser right now.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by moe »

proee wrote: post #6

This seems a little 'too much' for me. Though I wouldn't mind having a tab-candy type manager that automatically groups all tabs of the same domain into one group. This way I could close all pages of a particular site at once and clean up the Bazillion tabs I have open in my browser right now.

Browser tabs are quite a hard problem actually that many have tried to tackle - and many failed.

In my firefox days I have tried just about every tab-addon there is, from coloring (with or without aging), over multi-row, to tree-sidebar. None of them did improve the situation enough. In summary the multi-row variant helped the most, but the tab-ordering would still get messed up constantly with unrelated tabs slipping into places where they don't belong (the dreaded "spontaneous google search").

And one thing is for sure, the firefox default of scroll-arrows on the tab bar is probably the worst from all worlds. The chrome-way of squeezing it all into whatever width available beats that hands down, but still leaves a lot to be desired.

So, as someone who routinely has 30+ Tabs open in supposedly distinct groups ("Work", "Procrastination", "Research" etc.) - this looks very promising to me.

Ideally I'd want this in a slideout side-panel. And in chrome, ofcourse. ;-)

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by Qz »

jluxenberg wrote: post #3

Looks like they've re-invented the concept of "windows." Isn't there a nifty piece of software provided by the OS called a window manager that's supposed to do this sort of thing?

Key words: supposed to.

nix has a million different options and no clear winner. OSX and Win have static ones that can't really be customized and are only upgraded at a glacially slow pace compared to browser development.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by proee »

moe wrote: post #7
proee wrote: post #6

This seems a little 'too much' for me. Though I wouldn't mind having a tab-candy type manager that automatically groups all tabs of the same domain into one group. This way I could close all pages of a particular site at once and clean up the Bazillion tabs I have open in my browser right now.

Browser tabs are quite a hard problem actually that many have tried to tackle - and many failed. In my firefox days I have tried just about every tab-addon there is, from coloring (with or without aging), over multi-row, to tree-sidebar. None of them did improve the situation enough. In summary the multi-row variant helped the most, but the tab-ordering would still get messed up constantly with unrelated tabs slippin…

Typically I open a new browser window for these sort of groups (work, fun, etc). If a tab needs to move between these ad-hoc groups then with chrome you can of course just drag it between the windows. Since I have a 3 monitor setup this is a no-brainer. The tab-candy setup would be less efficient in this regard because I have to open a third state to arrange tabs. However, if I was forced to work on a laptop this might be a better option than my current setup.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by thefool »

jluxenberg wrote: post #3

Looks like they've re-invented the concept of "windows." Isn't there a nifty piece of software provided by the OS called a window manager that's supposed to do this sort of thing?

I wish you could do all this with regular windows.

Its also much more specialized for the type of stuff people do on the internet.

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