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Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs

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

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Post by zonk_ »

Reminds me a little bit of Vivaldi's Tab Stacking feature [0]. Yet, it looks less useful, especially for tab hoarders as mentioned in the other comments here. But progress is progress and maybe we'll end up with something better than the Tab Stacks in the end.

[0]: https://help.vivaldi.com/article/tab-stacks/

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

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Post by mrtksn »

This looks nice but in my experience, it is unrealistic to have Chrome with many tabs open on a laptop. The machine would slow down, drain the battery and force me to close tabs before I need to classify them. Did that change too?

IMHO a feature as a tab limiter would be more productive for me at least, forcing me to close or archive tabs before opening new ones. I have ancient tabs of great finds that at some point I need to decide what to do with but never come around and don't really remember what was so great about that tab.

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

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Post by john_moscow »

This is nice, but what I really don't get is how come the most popular browser in the world in 2020 not have an native option to go through the tabs in the most-recently-used order.

This is major productivity improvement compared to ctrl-tabbing the tabs in their physical order. IIRC, multi-tabbed IDEs figured it out somewhere in the 90s and it has become a de-facto standard since then. But nope, Chrome doesn't support it, making the Ctrl-Tab hotkey effectively useless if you have more than a handful open tabs.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

gkoberger wrote: post #19

Maybe I'm wrong (EDIT: seems I'm wrong!), but I feel like the people with dozens of tabs open (guilty) aren't the ones who use organizational features? Also, it's a hidden feature, but you can already Shift+Select a group of tabs, and close/move/etc the whole group.

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

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Post by dmitshur »

What I would find very helpful is if Chrome on macOS could reopen all its windows on their original spaces—rather than all on the same space—when it needs to restart to install a new version.

Having all Chrome windows from many spaces for different tasks re-appear all on top of each other is quite frustrating.

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

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Post by crucialfelix »

mrtksn wrote: post #34

This looks nice but in my experience, it is unrealistic to have Chrome with many tabs open on a laptop. The machine would slow down, drain the battery and force me to close tabs before I need to classify them. Did that change too? IMHO a feature as a tab limiter would be more productive for me at least, forcing me to close or archive tabs before opening new ones. I have ancient tabs of great finds that at some point…

The Great Suspender is essential for that: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

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

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Post by slater »

nieve wrote: post #22
wyldfire wrote: post #2

> tab collectors who have...significantly more Guilty as charged. I have a hard time saying goodbye to some of those tabs sometimes. Tab minimalists react in horror. Meh -- they're missing out. > Now, with a simple right click, you can group your tabs together and label them with a custom name and color. I'm afraid that this might just free enough pixels to allow me to collect yet more tabs. ;)

Don't feel too bad about your tab hoarding, I'm at 3 windows with 4630 tabs and I'm pretty sure I'm closer to a stress test than a user. Chrome can't function with 1/20th of mine and Firefox runs smooth and fast. Restarting with loading all the session data takes seven or eight seconds total. It can't just be the different multi-process models so I'm pretty sure that the Chrome team can do better.

4k tabs?!? D:

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

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Post by gnicholas »

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…

Totally agree. TST was the primary reason I stuck with FF for so many years, even when Chrome was faster and more broadly compatible.

It seems silly that they would have “invented” a tool for tab hoarders that is obviously less useful than a thing that already exists and is currently not available on Chrome.

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