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

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Post by fao_ »

caribousoup wrote: post #266
dbbk wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm always constantly over 100. It mostly spirals out of control when deep in research and going down the rabbit hole.

I'm curious, wouldn't you read the info and process it in your mind, and then close the tab when done? If it's something you will need to reference again later, then bookmark it? Like you know... a book. Put it back on the shelf or have hundreds of books open on the floor. I do not understand tab people. I do have a meticulously organized bookmark system though. Do tab people use bookmarks much at all?

> Put it back on the shelf or have hundreds of books open on the floor.

Which is something people used to do. It was even referenced in movies up until the mid 2000s.

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

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Post by MadafakinBATMAN »

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…

On an average how many categories and tabs do you have open during heavy web usage?

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

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Post by fomine3 »

zo1 wrote: post #170
rohan1024 wrote: post #56

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On my 1080p monitor most of websites still keep white spaces on either side so this makes sense.

I blame "mobile" for that. All that whitespace is such a waste of space, and all this after a gigantic push away from 4:3 screens to 16:9 wide versions.

Reading text with 1920px 100% seems to horrible. I prefer narrower width.

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

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Post by MadafakinBATMAN »

bad_user wrote: post #152

I 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…

On an average how many categories and tabs do you have open during heavy web usage?

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

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Post by fomine3 »

justapassenger wrote: post #298

It’s sad that operating systems gave up, before even trying to, to properly organize content with windows managers. There’s really no good reason why browser needs to have tabs, and have that exclusive ecosystem, not available to rest of the apps on the system. I’d love to be able to group and manage my windows as easily as tabs.

Windows 10 Sets feature looks like it but it has gone. https://www.zdnet.com/article/windows-10s-sets-feature-is-go...

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

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Post by snowwrestler »

macrael wrote: post #334

LOL "tab groups" AKA "windows". You can have this life today! When you have a tab that doesn't fit in with the others, pull it into its own window. When you're done asking google a question, close the window to close all the tabs associated with it. Use cmd-` to cycle through windows and expose to find a specific one! I am happy to see them doing something new with tabs, I'm just sad that so many people seem to have…

This is what I do, but for me it only works because window management is so quicky and easy with Expose gestures on my Mac.

Doing the same approach on Windows drives me crazy and I end up wanting to have all my tabs in one window so I can find them.

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

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Post by walls »

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...

I'm probably missing something obvious, but I see in your review comments that I'm supposed to be able to add custom container names in the options... but I'm not finding them. Do I have to add through CSS?

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

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Post by basch »

Izkata wrote: post #368
basch wrote: post #280

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The problem with history is it loses spacial relativity. How does one tab relate to another. Which sites opened which tabs. Tabs are a poor but semi-adequate way to preserve the relationship between urls, by understanding their distance from each other and the rules of how they open. Another thing tabs do, is allow you to designate what NOT to return. If you use something like GoToTab [1], it will specifically NOT re…

> How does one tab relate to another. Which sites opened which tabs. > Tabs are a poor but semi-adequate way to preserve the relationship between urls, I recommend Tree Style Tab [0], which fully preserves this relationship. When one tab opens another, the child tab automatically becomes a child in the tree, making the whole thing very self-organizing. Also being a tree, the parents can be expanded/collapsed, if ther…

But how does that preserve the relationship after I want them to no longer be tabs? The convert tabs to history or tabs to bookmarks destroys that relationship data.
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