I use tabs essentially as low-friction bookmarks/todo items. I'd use bookmarks more if it were as low friction as just keeping the tabs open.
I definitely don't enjoy having a bunch of tabs crammed in a horizontally constrained space.
Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#62Or use this strange hack to group tabs: "File > New Window"
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#63Neat, 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…
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Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#64Tested this out a few months ago, got real excited when I saw they had a beta thing for it but was let down that you couldn't collapse and expand tab groups down to just their titles. The functionality should even be there-ish already, since pinned tabs collapse down to just the site's favicon.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#65Neat, 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…
My personal experience was that neither Firefox’s pioneering alternative to what Chrome announces here (tab groups), nor tree style tab extension were convenient enough to use. With tab groups you obviously very quickly neglect trying to group newly created tabs and even if you, it’s not very helpful (except for sand boxing - that’s a nice thing to have). Tree style tabs were just a pain in the ass, it was constantly causing my tabs to jump around when I opened them, it seems like it was trying to reorder my tabs in the horizontal tab bar so that the ordering would mimic the tree leaves while the vertical tab bar was just useless to me, maybe simply because I could not get used this layout.
I ended up using stash tab extension, as I often have to concentrate on researching one specific thing and while I do that I don’t need any other unrelated tabs to be open, this allows me to retroactiavely group all opened tabs into different stacks and name each of them and then just stash them away like you’d do with git stash, they don’t take up any memory after that and I can return to the entire stash at some point by clicking a single button that will effectively do a git pop of the stash.
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#66I'm pretty certain that I'm not going to be using any new tab organization feature, if it requires me take explicit action to get the benefit. If I was reasonably capable of organizing my browsing, I wouldn't currently have 468 tabs open to start with...
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#67Am 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".
Re: Coming to Chrome: a new way to use tabs
#68This works for Google because they want you to only use Chrome. That's how Google engineers work.
For the rest of us, it's a reminder of how increasingly troublesome it is that window managers are tied to the OS, and (on 2/3 of the major OSs) locked down so any third parties that want to innovate here are limited to doing it only for their own application.
This looks like just the sort of thing Dan Ingalls meant when he said "We in computer software insist on stepping on the toes of those who came before us instead of climbing on their shoulders".
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Man, I know I have a problem, and I thought it was bad at about 700 tabs across 25 windows (virtual desktops are enablers for the window count). But seeing this thread I clearly need to up my game/download more memory.
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#70Tab minimalist here... It won't help the others . They just don't pay attention to tabs. It's like a mental blind spot for them... Maybe an outright disorder. They just keep opening new tabs every chance they get. I once sat over someone's shoulder and watched them continue to click the same link in a message over and over again to look at a JIRA while we were debugging something. Every time, it just opened up a new…
You'll create an infinite number of tabs if you have the following rules:
- if you will open multiple links from a page, keep that tab, and then open each link in a new tab
- each tab is a train of thought -- don't overwrite a tab's train of thought, always open a new tab to keep your trains of thought distinct
- only close a tab once you know that train of thought is fully complete
- don't interrupt your current train of thought just to evaluate if an earlier train of thought is complete (and therefore whether you should then close that "tree" of tabs)
AKA garbage collection for your mind, that only allows you to run stop-the-world when no other processes are running