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

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Post by Zancarius »

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.

I think I found my kindred spirit! I have one Firefox instance presently at 3 windows and 3379 tabs and another with 10 windows and somewhere north of 2300 tabs. I wouldn't dare do this under Chrome/Chromium.

On my system at least, I've noticed that Firefox does get less responsive around 8000+ tabs. Mostly it's just the start up that complains.

Sometimes I'll get annoyed and mass-bookmark/close tabs (filed under date of closure). Do you ever do that or do you usually filter through things on an as needed basis?

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

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Post by frosted-flakes »

mcbutterbunz wrote: post #24
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.

I'm just thinking out loud but I wonder if there was an easier way to visually identify certain tabs that seem related. Right now all I have is the favicon but there are so many favicons that look similar its difficult to tell them apart.

I love how Internet Explorer would colour-code tabs that were opened from another tab (open in new tab). It worked really well for search engine results; opening a bunch of results in new tabs would visually group them together by coloring those tabs differently. Similar in concept to Chrome tab groups, except completely automatic, which is super useful.

It was easier to keep track of same-site tabs because they tended to be in different colour groups, or all in the same group, and I think IE had a minimum tab width that was actually usable.

If I remember right, you could also move an unrelated tab into a group by dragging it between two tabs in the group, although this seemed like an unintended feature.

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

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Post by Zancarius »

slater wrote: post #39
nieve wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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:

Some of us need help. We're crazy.

I've hit close to 10k before when I felt like being incredibly mean to my browser by never closing anything I opened for about 3-4 months.

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

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Post by uhryks »

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…

Vivaldi browser supports it out of the box, and vertical is even the default iirc. It's thank to it I got used to vertical tabs and I cannot go back. While it has the drawback of making tabs hoarding easier, just having some tabs open for documentation, GitHub, test pages, quickly brings me to a point where horizontal tabs' title are irrelevant and I have to guess tabs by their favicon. On top of that, most screens are 16:9 and we're reading almost exclusively vertical websites and horizontal tabs take up vertical screen space.

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

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Post by mrtksn »

crucialfelix wrote: post #38
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...

Thanks, it looks like there's a Safari version too. This may change things!

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

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Post by mirimir »

gnicholas wrote: post #40
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.

Yeah, when I was working on a project that involved interacting with ~25 WebGUIs, TST was a life saver. Especially the "load all tabs" option.

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

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Post by frosted-flakes »

hossbeast wrote: post #42

Vertical tabs, Chrome. Come back to me when you have Vertical Tabs.

Chromium Edge is getting vertical tabs, and from the screenshots it looks like a decent implementation. At the end of March, the blog post said it was coming to the Edge Insider Preview "in the next few months".

Animated screenshot: https://46c4ts1tskv22sdav81j9c69-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

Microsoft blog post (scroll down to #2): https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2020/03/30/the-t...

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