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Vertical tabs, Chrome. Come back to me when you have Vertical Tabs.
Chromium Edge is getting vertical tabs, and from the screenshots it looks like a decent implementation. At the end of March, the blog post said it was coming to the Edge Insider Preview "in the next few months". Animated screenshot: https://46c4ts1tskv22sdav81j9c69-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-... Microsoft blog post (scroll down to #2): https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/03/30/the-t...
Maybe I'm wrong (EDIT: seems I'm wrong!), but I feel like the people with dozens of tabs open (guilty) aren't the ones who use organizational features? Also, it's a hidden feature, but you can already Shift+Select a group of tabs, and close/move/etc the whole group.
Wow, thanks for this. I know most of Chrome’s hidden features. Don’t know how I missed this one. I tend to reorder tabs and then use “Close tabs to the right”.
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You'll create an infinite number of tabs if you have the following rules: - if you will open multiple links from a page, keep that tab, and then open each link in a new tab - each tab is a train of thought -- don't overwrite a tab's train of thought, always open a new tab to keep your trains of thought distinct - only close a tab once you know that train of thought is fully complete - don't interrupt your current tra…
That's exactly how it is with me. Also it is often more convenient to open a new tab and search again for something then to find it in one of already opened tabs. It would be perfect if beside Google search results the browser would show tab results (with full FTS) and history results. I would prefer to have it there instead of search bar's completion. Then if tabs would really be just history of opened tabs the brow…
- your current train of thought always needs to be in the rightmost tab OR it can be the leftmost tab if you have a current working set with like just 5 tabs
the latter of which is what then leads to an infinite number of windows...
Which is why on top of the built-in "close all tabs" and "close all tabs to the right", I also installed plugins for "close all other windows" and "close all others tabs and all other windows".
- Export Tabs as list. Format could be something like URL;TITLE[;GROUP][;...]
- Import list as Tabs: The inverse
Then I could use existing tools (xsv,fzf,vscode,excel) to do whatever I like with my tabs. Some things may be lost (cache, scrolling position...) but I wouldn't care as they don't work anyway with modern websites.
Maybe I'm wrong (EDIT: seems I'm wrong!), but I feel like the people with dozens of tabs open (guilty) aren't the ones who use organizational features? Also, it's a hidden feature, but you can already Shift+Select a group of tabs, and close/move/etc the whole group.
One Firefox extension "Tree Style Tabs", popular with dozens-of-tabs folks, has near a quarter million users. I imagine they will be objecting that tab groups don't go far enough :)
It uses the concept of "tasks" to organize tabs. Still haven't really tried it, so can't really recommend, but since it's not really well known (I guess) I thought it was worth sharing.
As for the grouping of tabs, there’s always been a way to group them: a new window. I wish there was a feature to drag+select a group of tabs and send them to a new window. I guess this new feature tries to solve the same problem.
> tab collectors who have...significantly more Guilty as charged. I have a hard time saying goodbye to some of those tabs sometimes. Tab minimalists react in horror. Meh -- they're missing out. > Now, with a simple right click, you can group your tabs together and label them with a custom name and color. I'm afraid that this might just free enough pixels to allow me to collect yet more tabs. ;)
Don't feel too bad about your tab hoarding, I'm at 3 windows with 4630 tabs and I'm pretty sure I'm closer to a stress test than a user. Chrome can't function with 1/20th of mine and Firefox runs smooth and fast. Restarting with loading all the session data takes seven or eight seconds total. It can't just be the different multi-process models so I'm pretty sure that the Chrome team can do better.
My Safari had 1K+ Tabs and I finally spend some time last week closing those down to 150Tabs. Normally Safari dont work as well as Firefox with that many Tabs, the trick is to restart Safari from time to time ( So Tabs are not Active ). AND do NOT press the Tab Overview Button. Which somehow reloads all the tabs, make your Mac insanely slow and would kill your SSD. As you wont have enough memory it literally page hundreds of GB if not TB to your SSD.
Reported this to Apple a few times and never heard anything back. I really wish there is an option where Tab Overview is just a list of tabs and doesn't load them up.
I think most of us are using Tabs as a sort of live reading list or Bookmarks. And as anyone may guess, never really got to finish it. Ok now I wrote that I should try to clean those 150 tabs down to at least a few dozen.