I don't see anything here that isn't possible with OneTab except that the tabs are all open. At least with OneTab I can (manually) move tabsets between Chrome and Firefox as well as between machines: https://www.one-tab.com/
Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#232I'd love if a browser supports horizontally and perhaps vertically splitting the browser window/tab like you can in iTerm or tmux or terminator and let us view multiple pages at once in a single browser window area. Whichever page is active owns the address and toolbar.
Vivaldi has this feature.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#233Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Then you could add some sort of ctrl-p style fuzzy search that includes both url and content. Try focusing the URL bar in Firefox and prefixing your query with '%'. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet... shows more prefixes like this. It does not search the content of the page, but is super useful still.
You need a space after the '%', which always confused and annoyed me. But TIL: the special character doesn't need to be a prefix! It only needs to be separated from other characters using a space. Makes much more sense now.
Apparently you don't! I just tested that on 76.0 (64-bit) on Windows, and it works without a space.
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#234Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you’ve misunderstood me: Tabs is a form of MDI.
Tabs is a form of "Multiple Top-Level Windows Interface"? Windows MDI is a nested window manager. Tile and Cascade, move and resize, maximize, minimize. That is gone. Windows stay maximized, title bar eaten by buttons and tabs. Browser tabs is Taskbar: * Navigation: Ctrl+Tab vs Alt+Tab * Position: Top vs Screen Edge * when open a lot both were unmanageable
MDI stands for “Multiple Document Interface”. I have no idea what (Windows-specific) construct you are referring to.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#235It 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 wish there was a feature to drag+select a group of tabs and send them to a new window There is! Press CTRL while clicking individual tabs OR press SHIFT while clicking the first and last tab you want to move to a new window. Selected tabs appear slightly brighter. Then, just drag. This works in Chrome and Firefox.
I wish I could upvote you twice.
Whenever I need to separate my tabs from the main window I have to adjust them individually, which is a real pain if you have more than 10 tabs open.
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#236Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wrong! I have a very sophisticated system for managing my tabs. I'm very breadth-first when browsing the web and I also switch contexts a lot. Tabs are like a big Todo list for me. For a while, I would get really frustrated when chrome would crash and close all my tabs, but recently I found a ln extension that keeps track of my tab history as a big tree! Yippee!
I use tabs exactly the same way! I also use windows for context switches. Right now on my work machine I have one personal window, and 5 other windows of 10-20 tabs each. Closing a window after doing all the "TODOs" is insanely cathartic
You get to clear out your TODOs? I'm very envious of you.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#237Useless. I need to be able to collapse groups
Don't be so dismissive. Collapsing groups is coming up, you can even enable its preview version through a chrome flag.
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#238Neat, 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...
One of my gripes with Firefox containers are that I still can't search for tabs across containers in the awesome bar using the % char
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#239Are these separate containers (like Firefox containers) or just some UI to visually group certain tabs?
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#240Neat, 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...
I like this because it organizes my tabs in the same way I do mentally... however it doesn't actually reorder my tabs. What I mean is, Ctrl+Tab surfing through my tabs doesn't iterate the list as it is displayed sequentially.