Everyone I work with seems to always have about a million tabs open at all times, myself included. Maybe they’ve figured out a way to manage them, but for me, it’s hard to keep them from becoming anything other than a disorganized mess. I use a couple of plugins that really help like the Great Suspender for managing memory use, and the this looks like it will definitely help.
The thing that puzzles me is that this seems like an obvious step progression in tab management - but it’s also the first real move to help people with a widespread challenge that’s been around for many years. Is this the rate of improvement we should expect from Chrome?
Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#192Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seriously, I don't understand the discussion here. It's a solved problem, and the solution is what vimium does: press a key that opens a tab searcher and digit a bunch of characters related to the tab you want to go to, and you get presented with an ever-shrinking list of tabs (favicon, title, hostname, ..) that match your search as you type. Enter, maybe one or two arrows movements to select the final choice. If you…
Try this: ctrl-L, type % type space type search term. It restricts the search to open tabs only.
Didn't know that, great tip!
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#193Shamesless plug: I've built a tiny WebExtension for Firefox that I believe is the fastest way to jump between tabs ever, with the keyboard. It's for those of us who have more than 15 tabs open. You basically click a one key, and then fuzzy search through your tabs until there's only one option left, and the tab opens. Alternatively you enter the tab number and it opens. It's probably one of my most useful weekend pro…
Note that the URL bar already has a similar feature.
Ctrl + L, %,
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#194In my experience, Chrome has never been the browser for people who want to open more than a handful of tabs and keep them around for sometime. It becomes sluggish and makes the whole system sluggish. I see similar issues with the new Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium) and Brave (also based on Chromium, but somewhat better).
“Tab collectors” is a derogatory term to describe anyone who needs to do some research on some topic and needs to open up tabs, links from them and figure out the topic(s) they’re dealing with. Yes, this can devolve into a collector situation if not managed well. But not everyone who has a need for it has to be insulted this way, especially from technical users, where daily work can easily turn into opening several tabs and windows at once.
That Google Chrome isn’t designed or optimized for heavy usage will not go away just because they throw a new feature to group tabs. You may be able to group them, but will the browser be any less sluggish with the addition of this feature? That’s what I’m interested to know. For users of a few tabs, tab groups may not be as useful since they’d already be doing the grouping with windows. For users with many tabs, tab groups isn’t going to be useful as long as the browser can’t handle many tabs.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
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...
Shameless plug, but Vivaldi does this and so much more natively...since beta however many years ago. Haven't touched firefox since.
I'm not aware of Vivaldi having functionality similar to Firefox containers. Please elaborate.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#196I have a dream. What I really want was likely not possible when tabs were invented, but should be now. I want least recently used tabs to automatically fade away, but still be fully known and searchable the way that 'search my computer' or 'google search' works. With search filters like last hour/day/week/month. And it seems like history should be kept per tab, not altogether. This way I keep a minimal-to-medium numb…
Try OneTab addon - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#197I use about a gazillion tabs. My biggest problem is losing them, or having to re-open them after a restart. Though sometimes a fresh start can be relieving.
My next biggest problem is running out of memory when running other programs alongside Chrome. Perhaps it's due to how I like watching YouTube a lot, which seems to suck my RAM dry. I have 16 gb RAM, but even then I sometimes get hiccups, and the culprit seems to be Chrome. Not sure what to do about it, aside from closing tabs.
I know it's probably a bad habit to open several programs as well, but using the Adobe package together with a browser is kind of a must, at least if you're juggling several projects at once. Same for programming, but Sublime Text is hardly a resource hog.
If this works between sessions, and perhaps even between computers, AND it saves memory, then I'm sure I'll fall in love with it. I've had other solutions suggested to me, but installing yet another plugin is not appealing to me. Though after reading this thread, I think I'll perhaps give Vimium a try.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#198In my experience, Chrome has never been the browser for people who want to open more than a handful of tabs and keep them around for sometime. It becomes sluggish and makes the whole system sluggish. I see similar issues with the new Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium) and Brave (also based on Chromium, but somewhat better). “Tab collectors” is a derogatory term to describe anyone who needs to do some research on some…
I have tried it already and it is of no use for me. I want a way to group tabs in different Chrome windows and assign the Chrome window a name, so that I can have: Work Window, News Window, Personal Window, Communication Window, etc. and in each of the windows the related tabs. Today I can do that, but each "chrome-window-icon" shows with the name of the tab that is open, and not the "chorme-window-name" (Work window, etc). In Windows 10 I used an app to rename the instances of Chrome but I cannot find a solution under Linux (Ubuntu).
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#199It looks good when it's only few tabs, when you have more than 20 tabs you don't even see a favicon. I don't understand why tabs don't have minimum width. In firefox you always see favicon and first tree letters and there are arrows that help you scroll through tabs.
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#200While Google finds new ways to offer reduced functionality, here's how I use tabs in Chrome: https://github.com/atomontage/osa-chrome
That actually seems like rather convenient, if I were emacs user on Mac, I would give it a try.
That said, you gotta agree that this time google actually adds functionality that might be useful to some, unlike more common scrap-important-adblocking-api-to-screw-everyone.