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Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by goodside »

jey wrote: post #70
goodside wrote: post #67

This whole effort is misguided. I can't fathom wanting to name a group of tabs. As it is I barely ever take the initiative to organize bookmarks, and those are permanent. People don't need a filing cabinet for something that should be ephemeral and self-limiting. When your desk gets buried under a skin of receipts, junk mail envelopes, and water-ringed Economists from last May, the only proper organizational tool is…

Sure, but the trashcan is the "proper organizational tool" only because a better solution doesn't exist yet, not because it solves the problem optimally. Isn't there some reason that copy of the Economist is sitting on your desk in the first place? Presumably you do want to read the interesting articles in it, and it'd be handy if the most interesting ones were somehow brought to you. Now, Tab Candy doesn't do that,…

The better solution is search, which is notably not an organizational tool at all as far as the user is concerned. Will there some day be a solution that's better still? Yes. But I guarantee it won't involve the user sorting into buckets or affixing labels.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by code_duck »

goodside wrote: post #67

This whole effort is misguided. I can't fathom wanting to name a group of tabs. As it is I barely ever take the initiative to organize bookmarks, and those are permanent. People don't need a filing cabinet for something that should be ephemeral and self-limiting. When your desk gets buried under a skin of receipts, junk mail envelopes, and water-ringed Economists from last May, the only proper organizational tool is…

I don't do this, but I know many medium-experience users who keep literally 100s of tabs open at a time. It's like they use it instead of bookmarks. That sort of person would love this.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by pornel »

code_duck wrote: post #82
goodside wrote: post #67

This whole effort is misguided. I can't fathom wanting to name a group of tabs. As it is I barely ever take the initiative to organize bookmarks, and those are permanent. People don't need a filing cabinet for something that should be ephemeral and self-limiting. When your desk gets buried under a skin of receipts, junk mail envelopes, and water-ringed Economists from last May, the only proper organizational tool is…

I don't do this, but I know many medium-experience users who keep literally 100s of tabs open at a time. It's like they use it instead of bookmarks. That sort of person would love this.

I keep 100s of tabs open, but it's not because I specifically want tabs, it's because it's the laziest solution.

To me Tab Candy is the extra work that made me avoid bookmarks.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by ekiru »

goodside wrote: post #67

This whole effort is misguided. I can't fathom wanting to name a group of tabs. As it is I barely ever take the initiative to organize bookmarks, and those are permanent. People don't need a filing cabinet for something that should be ephemeral and self-limiting. When your desk gets buried under a skin of receipts, junk mail envelopes, and water-ringed Economists from last May, the only proper organizational tool is…

I would love to have something like tab candy in Chrome. As it is, I have between 8 and 12 Chrome windows open in different workspaces, each containing a certain group of tabs. For example, I typically read HN in my "recreational-web-browsing" window. It has my email, my RSS, twitter/identi.ca, HN, etc. In another window, I have the set of webcomics I want to start reading or am in the process of catching up to(so that I start subscribing by RSS instead). In four windows, I have all the web-pages I've been reading for various projects I'm working on. In another are my online placement tests for my university. With something like tab candy, I would end up consolidating the webcomics and possibly the placement tests into groups of tabs within the recreational browsing window. I might consolidate some of the project windows together(although the Emacs and terminal windows I keep open associated with the projects might deter me from doing this much.

Concerning not organizing permanent bookmarks, tabs can be as permanent as you want them to be in any browser with a "save tabs on exit" or similar option. But they're also much easier to organize. Just move windows and tabs about. Of course, they do take up memory, but if I had something like tab candy with an option to individually mark tabs as not needing to be kept loaded, that would almost certainly totally replace my use of bookmarks.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by jamesbritt »

growt wrote: post #86

I wrote something similar for chrome a while ago: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/edooipcjkkbjmnog... It's a little bit more lightweight (not in respect to memory usage maybe).

OTOH, there's another interesting approach to too many tabs: Don't allow them in the first place: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/kjecajkoiikaohha...

The No More Tabs extension limits the number of tabs you can have, and will close an old tab if you open a new one over that limit.

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by yellowstone »

tab candy is a bit too much work.

sticking with tabgroups manager. it's a firefox addon which does the same thing but better. groups aren't hidden, they are tabs on a bar above the normal tab bar.

you can auto name group tabs after selected tabs title by double clicking it. you can switch groups in 1 click by selecting the group tab.

tab candy should go in that direction

Re: Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

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Post by paul23 »

Corrado wrote: post #60

I just realized that Aza Raskin is Jef Raskin's son. One of Jef's main locus of attention was the zooming user interface (ZUI). This centers around the fact that an interface doesn't really have to have borders at all, just the ability to zoom. Zoom in to get detail; zoom out to view more of the world. Tab Candy is Jef's ZUI brought to the web browser. Cool!

Jef's ZUI is also implemented as a file browser for Macintosh. Really awesome! http://raskinformac.com
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