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Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by diminish »

apostacy wrote: post #106
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…

I'm sorry to hear that Nobody should have to wade through 1500+ tabs. It's frustrating to hear anyone struggle with that in this day and age. I've been there myself. But there are technical solutions. I haven't had to deal with tab anxiety in years. My browser stack is Tree Style Tabs, Session Manager, Multiple Tab Handler, and Tab Group Plus. I regularly wrangle clusters of tabs. If I have a tree of tabs that is spa…

Actually I try to keep a tab-zero & inbox-zero approach. I keep the working items in a bookmark folder.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by pkulak »

dangom wrote: post #130

Interesting that nobody mentioned not using tabs at all. I adapted the chrome.css of my firefox to hide tabs altogether, so I can get more screen real state. That paired with Vimium allows me to hit T to get a list of all open tabs, which I can then incrementally search. If I want to open a link from history, I hit O instead.

I've done that as well and it's great. Well, if I really need tabs, I use the tabbing that's built into my window manager (Sway). But it makes me really consider if I need it, and then it's easy to pop the "tabs" out, move them to different work spaces, etc. It's such a darn-clean look too.

https://i.imgur.com/UvJbEMG.png

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by rsync »

jhardy54 wrote: post #124
rsync wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I don't want an extension for a simple, basic piece of functionality that everyone keeps asking for. about:tabs would be the easiest thing in the world.

> about:tabs would be the easiest thing in the world. Thanka for volunteering! Can you link me to your patch?

rsync.net will pay USD $1000 for this.

Consider this an official, public bounty. Expires 2020-12-31.

I don't have time to write this patch but I especially don't have time for the lame, tired suggestion that FOSS cannot be critiqued by anyone but the authors.

(The bounty is $1500 if you "jhardy54" write, and have accepted, the patch. Consider the extra $500 compensation for this unexpected loss of smug, righteous indignation.)

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by randallsquared »

rsync wrote: post #104
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…

"Yes, in principle I could export the list of tabs to a text file, and begin anew ..." I came here to complain that, actually, you can't . Or rather, it's surprisingly complicated to export a simple list of current tab URLs to a plain old text file. You need to dig several directories deep into /Library (or whatever, depending on your OS) and then use JSON tools to export ... I've already lost most people. Why can't…

So, perhaps more accessible than the digging through the working files of the browser would be "bookmark all tabs" -> "export bookmarks".

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

teekert wrote: post #6
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…

This is quite a staggering amount imo... Why not just avoid painstaking and just start fresh? Is this a form of FOMO? Edit, you are at the point where you need a search engine for your tabs, you might as well close them and use the internet directly instead of cached in your own tabs. If I may ask, on what basis did you close all those tabs, did you read them all? What will you do with the rest?

> search engine for your tabs

Yes please! I've recently got interested in Recoll, which might not know what a tab is, but does search web history.

> you might as well close them and use the internet directly instead of cached in your own tabs

Caching is valuable. URLs bit rot and their contents change. If you have a browser session that's old enough, the RAM contents are a saving grace.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

parley wrote: post #82
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…

I recently "closed" 12000+ (not a typo) tabs in one of my Firefox profiles into OneTab. In another profile I have 30+ different windows open for different projects and contexts, and I have more profiles (typically one per WM workspace which are topical). I've tried lots of browser addons/extensions and tools over the years, but none offered proper salvation. I have a design in my head of what kind of tool I'd like, b…

What would the tool you want look like?

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by apostacy »

diminish wrote: post #131
apostacy wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm sorry to hear that Nobody should have to wade through 1500+ tabs. It's frustrating to hear anyone struggle with that in this day and age. I've been there myself. But there are technical solutions. I haven't had to deal with tab anxiety in years. My browser stack is Tree Style Tabs, Session Manager, Multiple Tab Handler, and Tab Group Plus. I regularly wrangle clusters of tabs. If I have a tree of tabs that is spa…

Actually I try to keep a tab-zero & inbox-zero approach. I keep the working items in a bookmark folder.

Yeah I usually have no open tabs at the end of a session. The point is that with the right tools, you can bulk capture the essence of what you were browsing without letting clutter accumulate.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by mmphosis »

dangom wrote: post #130

Interesting that nobody mentioned not using tabs at all. I adapted the chrome.css of my firefox to hide tabs altogether, so I can get more screen real state. That paired with Vimium allows me to hit T to get a list of all open tabs, which I can then incrementally search. If I want to open a link from history, I hit O instead.

  #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse; }

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by AlphaSite »

dredmorbius wrote: post #53

Tabbed browsing: a lousy band-aid over poor browser document and state management (2014): ...What I want is to maintain a list of current references, preferably with some spatial context (tree-mode browsing is great for this) to what the relationship is between pages in my browser session. I do not need is for every last single page to be open at the same time, sucking down memory, CPU cycles, and worse: playing vide…

Linear tab history almost gives you a temporal history of things which are interesting enough to keep.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by sbmthakur »

I have had around 200 tabs opened in my mobile. This was till I realized that this is just FOMO and is due to lack of focus. I created a strict there should be no more than 5 tabs in the browser at the end of each week. Things have been much better since then.
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