The web browser is essentially an operating system within your operating system.
This update is making the browser-os work more like a window manager.
tabs are to chrome as application windows are to OSX.
Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
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#222I use Tree Style Tabs in Firefox, but I have mixed feelings about it. It should help me visually find tabs, but truth of the matter is that it doesn't. Horizontal tabs become useless after 10 tabs opened, indeed, but vertical tabs become useless after 30 tabs opened. Opened tabs also consume a lot of memory. It's why I now use Auto Tab Discard, which works, but then gets in the way because by Ctrl-Tab-ing you end up…
Your situation sounds similar to my own. The following two extensions have helped me solve the '30 tabs' problem: TabSearch does the same thing you're doing with the search bar, but with fuzzy searching and more customisability which makes finding tabs a bit easier. Close Discarded Tabs is a very simple extension I wrote for myself that acts as a sort of garbage collector for Auto Tab Discard. You can customize Auto…
Hey, thanks for "Close Discarded Tabs", it's precisely what was missing :-)
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#223Useless. I need to be able to collapse groups
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#224I 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…
The great suspender will get you part of the way there.
Agree, need it a lot because of Chrome memory hogging.
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#225Vivaldi is too sweet to let go and switch to chrome. They are at least 10 years ahead in tab management and it is enlightening.
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#226I thought Google was pausing non-security Chrome updates during the COVID crisis, what happened to that?
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my case, I found that the whole concept of managing tabs just becomes moot at some point. The only extension I use to deal with the load of tabs I have open is funnily enough vimium. When you press the omnibar opens and you can search your open tabs and immediately jump to them, all without leaving your keyboard. This is way quicker than manually going through your tab list and searching for the right one.
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…
I'm a vim loyalist, I use Surfingkeys for Firefox, but I have to say that for a lot of non-power users I understand the GUI aspect helps keep their mental model of what's happening on their machine. This problem can have many equally acceptable solutions depending on the user.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#228A great next iteration would be to let users fold/unfold those groups, so that you only have one visible "tab" per group in the top bar. This would really help the "tab collecters" (like me, who had to close 78 tabs some weeks ago).
In Chrome Dev version there is a flag for "Tab Groups Collapse", but it doesn't work yet, so it's coming.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#229Neat, 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...
Oh man this looks great. Going to give it a try today. I can’t live without containers at this point. So much better than multiple Chrome profiles.
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#230It 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…
I'm always constantly over 100. It mostly spirals out of control when deep in research and going down the rabbit hole.