Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs • Hacker News Board

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

#251

Post by snazz » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:28 PM UTC

newscracker wrote: post #194

In 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…

Chromium can easily handle five hundred or more tabs on my machine. It's certainly a RAM hog, but that's to be expected. Maybe it's swapping on your machine? Firefox does a slightly better job when you have more than a thousand tabs open, but they both benefit from a tab suspender extension.

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

#252

Post by snazz » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:30 PM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #226

I thought Google was pausing non-security Chrome updates during the COVID crisis, what happened to that?

This feature has existed for a long time under chrome://flags. They skipped Chrome 82 for COVID: https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule

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

#253

Post by _0ffh » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:32 PM UTC

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…

I've been using the Simple Tab Groups extension [1] in Firefox for some time, and to my taste it's the best option out there.

[1] https://github.com/drive4ik/simple-tab-groups

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

#254

Post by suspect8 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

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…

Same here. I like to only keep open the tabs that I actually need, and that number is usually around 5.

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

#255

Post by idm » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:46 PM UTC

Timpy wrote: post #240

maciekmm wrote: post #90

Earlier 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...

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.

I recommend the Multi-Account Containers extension by Mozilla, which has a "sort tabs" button that accomplishes what you want.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

I am not sure why this functionality is a separate extension - this is a bit confusing - but it's working for me.

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

#256

Post by SeanDav » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:50 PM UTC

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…

As a fully paid up member of the tab collectors club, I mourn the demise of Tab Mix Plus. Not found anything which beats it, although some of the tree-style tab solutions are not bad.

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

#257

Post by baxtr » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:53 PM UTC

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...

This feels like tabs are becoming bookmarks

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

#258

Post by rb808 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:54 PM UTC

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…

Agreed, isn't this what bookmarks are for? BTW I always use bookmark toolbar, maybe this is similar to keeping tabs.

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

#259

Post by tgb » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:54 PM UTC

ggregoire wrote: post #67

Am I the only one to use windows as tabs groups? Shift + click on tabs to select multiple tabs, then right click > "Move Tabs to New Window".

That's what I do, but I still keep only a small number of tabs open in each of a small number of windows. But FYI you can just drag the tab(s) down and they'll form a new window.

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

#260

Post by visarga » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:57 PM UTC

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…

Opposite to you, if I don't have at least 20 tabs open the tab bar looks naked and weird. I only close when they get to icon size, and am not happy about that. I would like to keep many of them because they are leads I might need later.