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Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by jhardy54 »

rsync wrote: post #179
jhardy54 wrote: post #178

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for the bounty. Is this resolved when the patch is written and available for anyone to include in their source tree, or when it's merged into the Firefox tree? (I want to clarify because I've had a patch open for 4 months that's received no attention from maintainers.)

The bounty will be awarded (paid) when Joe Average user can download plain old Firefox and use about:tabs, without other downloads or add-ons, etc.

Since my last patch (bugfix, one line) has been open for at least 4 months without activity I'm not sure how feasible it would be to land a new feature and have it releases in Firefox stable in ~3 months.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by diminish »

awiesenhofer wrote: post #148
diminish wrote: post #131

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

Sounds like a great approach, can you tell us more about it? Do you have subfolders? Do you move or delete bookmarks when you are "done" with them? Would love some details. Thank you for the inspiration!

In the bookmarks toolbar (of Firefox) - I keep a few folders:

- 0: Personal Links I must check every day; for example HN, Reddit and other accounts

- 1: Links I need every day for my work, like Slack

- !: Links which require immediate action (TODOs)

- W: Any links I actively follow - those are actually tabs. Under that, I keep folders for different issue topics.

Also I use the emacs org mode to keep a list of TODO links.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by dangom »

bbbobbb wrote: post #176
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.

How do you deal with websites that hijack your vimium shortcuts (gmail.. or event where it does not work - new tab blank page..)

You can deactivate it for sites where it interferes with your workflow. I've become used to switching tabs when it doesn't work, or hitting Cmd+L and searching from the address bar.

To be precise, I use a combination of Ctrl+tab, Cmd+L, T and O, in that order of frequency. I don't mind repeated tabs, so sometimes I'll just do a web search for whatever item I wanted again.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by ezluckyfree »

mac01021 wrote: post #28
ezluckyfree wrote: post #18

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 des…

I use a Chrome extension called "New Tab, New Window". It doesn't reclaim the screen real estate occupied by the tab bar, but it has the behavior you want.

oh, cool. thanks!

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by bg24 »

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…

You are at a different level. No I am not being sarcastic. Anyone who is able to concentrate with more than 10 tabs open has my respect.

I figured that bookmarks, downloaded files, and open tabs for more than a day are mostly causing me remorse for not being able to ever get to those again. So I focus on tasks and use search to open what I need.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by Zecc »

epage wrote: post #91
eclipseo76 wrote: post #66

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> 2. Tree style tabs: The extensions I’ve tried tend to be very slow Try Sidebery: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/

What does Sidebery offer over Tree Style Tabs?

I have both, and while I haven't used Sidebery as much as I should (since I've known and become accustomed to TST first), I can say at least this: Sidebery has tabs groups. These display as icons to the side of the tab tree, and when you select one it will show the tree of tabs in that group only.

Re: On Browser Tabs

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Post by navalsaini »

growt wrote: post #38
sevencolors wrote: post #24

I never understood how folks end up with 20+ (100+ !?) tabs just hanging around ALL the time. For me it's so much visual noise. I can see it happening when you're in the midst of research or troubleshooting. But when I'm done or have solved my issue I'll note in my PR where i found solutions or add the useful pages to my bookmark service (raindrop). Then close all the tabs!

I'm one of those "tab-addicts". The problem is that I use Tabs for everything: reading list, history , bookmarks . Right now I have 8 pinned tabs for email, calendar, messengers and such things. Then I have a couple of interesting news articles etc. that I left open to read later. I also left open some of my work/research flows (so 3-5 tabs each that belong to the same project topic) that I didn't really finish or wa…

About your pinned tabs. You could try making URL shortcuts with rewq.app . [ disclaimer: I made it for personal use ].

It would be nice to have feedback from others on improving it.

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