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Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by funcDropShadow »

ssivark wrote: post #3

I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…

You can use % search to find tabs with a certain page or you could install the extension "vim vixen" and use the key w.

To use % search, open a new tab and type "% stack" to find the tabs visiting stackoverflow.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by LandR »

ssivark wrote: post #3

I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…

Tree Style Tabs?

And then you can organise them somewhat into groups ?

I use tree style tabs with some custom theming to make it take up only enough room on the left to show the site favicon. It then opens up when I mouse-over.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by patcon »

FroshKiller wrote: post #10
ssivark wrote: post #3

I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…

Have you tried OneTab? It's an add-on that squashes all your open tabs to a list and saves the list to a page. You can reopen tabs, remove them, etc. from the page. It's super good. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/

Yeah, I rely heavily on one-tab.

But for me at least, I've realized it's less about keeping content for later, and acts more akin to the conversational bridge "well, if it's important I'll remember it later" -- It just gives me permission to let the tabs go and move on, with a pretense that I'll maybe come back to them :)

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by quesera »

ssivark wrote: post #3

I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…

There's an addon called "Tab Stats" which can be helpful here.

No REPL, but hierarchical lists of tabs organized by domain, with the option to close en masse. Also shows duplicates.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stats/

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by andrepd »

ssivark wrote: post #3

I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…

Tree tabs is a must-have for tab hoarders like us. You can filter tabs by text.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by bennyp101 »

For some reason once the tab list reaches the other side of the monitor it makes me feel uneasy, so I close down any tabs that I don't need open.

I've never found the need to have more than 8 or so tabs open really - and if I want to compare things, then I just open another browser window and pop it next to it, or on a different monitor.

I'm sure there are very good reason for people that have 50+ tabs open - everyones brain works differently after all - but it makes my brain itch!

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by ape4 »

ssivark wrote: post #3

I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…

What about a nicely organized bookmark collection instead.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by ezluckyfree »

Briefly I was looking for an addon that completely disabled tabs, and removed the tab bar. Every action that would normally open a new tab would instead open a new window.

Since I use a tiling WM, the idea was that this would make it easier to navigate through my tabs, and also keep my attention from branching so often. If I had something that I found useful enough to keep around, I can move it to another virtual desktop.

Unfortunately, I never found such an addon, and I'm still not set on that workflow in general.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by cassepipe »

Doesn't Firefox searches through open tabs while you type in the (indeed) awesome bar ? I don't see where the problem is really. Plus the session manager extensions I have tried are not "stiff", they work well.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by jjice »

I've also been known to have an absurd amount of tabs across multiple browser windows. Upgrading to a new machine with quite a bit more RAM didn't help either. About once a day, I'll go through, and without looking, close all my browser windows. If I try to go through and choose which tabs to close individually, I get a hoarder mentality where I can find the use in everything. "Actually, maybe I do want to read that article about raising your own livestock", I'd think to myself knowing full well I live in a city.

Worse case scenario, I close something that will take 15 seconds to get back to when I realize I need it.

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