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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by tigroferoce »

akersten wrote: post #23

Neat, and works well for the toy example with 4 tabs open. I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think. They seem to be aware of this too, since none of the screenshots in the post have anywhere near what I would consider a significant amount of tabs open. I use the tree style tab extension on Firefox[0], which I cannot live without. Horizontal tabs become useless after about 15…

The idea is not bad, but I agree that it does not scale well. I try to keep all the tabs related to a specific task/project in a Firefox window and have multiple windows, one per taks/project.

However, it quickly becomes tedious to open the set of windows (with relative tabs) and software need for a certain task/project (shameless plug #1, see this previous thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21995823).

To at least avoid closing windows, but not to have my desktop cluttered, I minimize them (on a Mac), but then I find it difficult to reopen the exact window I might need. To mitigate this issue I (shameless plug #2) did a small app that shows a big cover so that it is easy to find the window when minimized. It still is under development, so lots of bugs and few features. If you want to give comments, its https://cver.vernizzis.it/ :-)

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by stOneskull »

bbx wrote: post #129

It seems to me I’m in the minority by being a minimalist here? I have at most 10 tabs open. Same for Sublime Text open files. I regularly close all but one tab/file just to reset my cognitive load. This does force me to rely on the history from time to time, which I must say is a true pain in Chrome. You can’t even search or filter by date. Also, revisiting a page will move it up the top of the list, which is annoyin…

Around 10 open, I'm looking to press OneTab. It's break time. Tabs are grouped by time, but it works for me

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by msravi »

maciekmm wrote: post #90
akersten wrote: post #23

Neat, and works well for the toy example with 4 tabs open. I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think. They seem to be aware of this too, since none of the screenshots in the post have anywhere near what I would consider a significant amount of tabs open. I use the tree style tab extension on Firefox[0], which I cannot live without. Horizontal tabs become useless after about 15…

Shameless plug. I made the ContainerTabsSidebar firefox addon[0], which is inspired by the TST. It groups tabs based on firefox privacy containers, which means every container has an isolated cookie store. I'm a tab hoarder and developed it to work for such "use-case". It's very similar to the groups presented, but displays tabs vertically. [0]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/container-tab...

Thank you for this - just what I needed! Tree-style tabs always seemed like a bunch of tabs thrown together with no organization, but your extension gives it the context that the user explicitly defined in the form of containers. I use multi-account containers a lot and this extension is just the supplement that was needed. Plus, being able to switch between container-tab view, bookmarks, and history is just the right thing to have.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by aembleton »

uhryks wrote: post #47
akersten wrote: post #23

Neat, and works well for the toy example with 4 tabs open. I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think. They seem to be aware of this too, since none of the screenshots in the post have anywhere near what I would consider a significant amount of tabs open. I use the tree style tab extension on Firefox[0], which I cannot live without. Horizontal tabs become useless after about 15…

Vivaldi browser supports it out of the box, and vertical is even the default iirc. It's thank to it I got used to vertical tabs and I cannot go back. While it has the drawback of making tabs hoarding easier, just having some tabs open for documentation, GitHub, test pages, quickly brings me to a point where horizontal tabs' title are irrelevant and I have to guess tabs by their favicon. On top of that, most screens a…

Last time I tried Vivaldi, the vertical tabs were not 'tree style'. By that, I mean they were all listed directly underneath each other rather than indented to show from where they were open.

Take my current Hacker News browsing: https://imgur.com/a/p3w77RJ

Do they indent like this? This is a really important aspect of tree style tabs because it adds another dimension of information. It also means that I can just minimise that tree of HN tabs down when I'm looking at something else.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by tbodt »

qubex wrote: post #26

What I find hilarious about tabs is that it’s basically a full reimplementation of a multitasking interface within a MDI (Multiple Document In Window) context: we came up with windows for different applications and for different documents within that application, and then for the browser we went back and revised the conventional wisdom.

Hover text: https://xkcd.com/934/

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by qubex »

sergeykish wrote: post #104
qubex wrote: post #26

What I find hilarious about tabs is that it’s basically a full reimplementation of a multitasking interface within a MDI (Multiple Document In Window) context: we came up with windows for different applications and for different documents within that application, and then for the browser we went back and revised the conventional wisdom.

1996 - Opera 2 had MDI 1997 - tabs first appeared in SimulBrowse 2000 - Opera 4 added tabs 2005 - Opera 8 removed MDI They tried, maybe MDI is not that good.

I think you’ve misunderstood me: Tabs is a form of MDI.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by AlphaSite »

akersten wrote: post #23

Neat, and works well for the toy example with 4 tabs open. I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think. They seem to be aware of this too, since none of the screenshots in the post have anywhere near what I would consider a significant amount of tabs open. I use the tree style tab extension on Firefox[0], which I cannot live without. Horizontal tabs become useless after about 15…

My favourite feature in safari is it’s tab garbage collection. Where it just closes unopened tabs after 1 week.

Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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Post by solarkraft »

AlphaSite wrote: post #148
akersten wrote: post #23

Neat, and works well for the toy example with 4 tabs open. I don't really think it would work as well for the "tab collectors" as they think. They seem to be aware of this too, since none of the screenshots in the post have anywhere near what I would consider a significant amount of tabs open. I use the tree style tab extension on Firefox[0], which I cannot live without. Horizontal tabs become useless after about 15…

My favourite feature in safari is it’s tab garbage collection. Where it just closes unopened tabs after 1 week.

Without asking? That'd get me pretty confused/mad.
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