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Tree Style Tabs? And then you can organise them somewhat into groups ? I use tree style tabs with some custom theming to make it take up only enough room on the left to show the site favicon. It then opens up when I mouse-over.
I used TreeStyleTabs for a few years. But then, one day, I accidentally closed it -- and the browser was running so much faster I can't stand TST anymore.
I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…
I've tried lots of browser addons/extensions and tools over the years, but none offered proper salvation. I have a design in my head of what kind of tool I'd like, but like everyone else I have no time between work and everything else to build it.
Long ago I used to blame the tools, but these days I realize it's me. I put minimum 32 GB RAM into my boxes, and it's because of VMs and browsers.
It provides me such a huge benefit because I just swipe my hand to destroy dozens of browser tabs. And all the while I can see the name, have them hierarchical, change their groups, etc. I go on deep GitHub or Wikipedia dives and close or collapse that entire line of thought so easily. Tabs are essentially mind maps. I wish a larger vendor with real time/money would invest in a similar many-tab model. The concept is of course directly taken from the tree-style tab extension in FF, but even that extension has suffered since the move off of XUL, and I can't easily close a ton of tabs just by dragging over the close buttons anymore (among other things).
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I used TreeStyleTabs for a few years. But then, one day, I accidentally closed it -- and the browser was running so much faster I can't stand TST anymore.
I don't find that it slows down FF. How long ago did you try TST?
I can't notice it when I have 10-100 tabs open. It's unbearable when I have 1000 (which happens more often than I would like to admit).
It should be noted, though, that my web browsing machine is an early 2013 MacBook Pro with 8GB of RAM; It's possible I wouldn't have noticed on a faster machine.
I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…
At that point isn't it better to just set up some bookmarks? Navigating 700 tabs is much harder than navigating a hierarchical bookmark list. Personally I only keep open tabs that I am actively working in, if I have more than ~15 I get less productive since I have to hunt through to fine the one I need. Several times a day I just clear out all my tabs aside from a couple pinned ones.
My take - some of us leave tabs open way too long because we fear not being able to get back to those sites again… it’s loss aversion. Tabs aren’t the core problem per se, it’s recall. We need to solve the “I want to get back here again” problem.
I primarily use Brave and effectively start fresh every day. I might get up to 20 open tabs at any given time, and I sometimes use tabs as a sort of Inbox that needs to be cleared. But sometimes, it’s best to declare tab bankruptcy and start over.
I... have a problem. I recently had ~1600 tabs open in Firefox. With a lot of painstaking effort I cut it down to ~750. Quite some distance to go still. The default interface sucks once you have more than 50 tabs. I wish there were easy REPL-ish programmatic access to the list/dict of tabs (so I could filter out all GitHub tabs, or close all stackoverflow tabs, etc) and that was a first class citizen in the browser i…
'Junk Hoarders' -> 'Tab Hoarders'.
Maybe find a way to truly organize bookmarks and find a good bookmark manager plugin that lets you 'get to your stuff' as you need it.
I always close my tabs as quickly as possible. "Tabs Zero" so to speak. I would value a better reopen closed tab feature. Going further back and allowing me specify which closed tab I want back.
Isn't this just browser history? I close tabs very aggressively (usually hovering around Tabs Zero if you exclude the always open (like calendar and messaging apps) and regularly fish things out of my history.
To observe difference, do the following:
- Go to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24518507 , click 'parent', close tab, undo close tab, hit back. Where are you?
- Load the page that was the 'parent', hit back. Where are you?
Each tab is a history tree. The history page, on the other hand, is a linearized chronological list. They are non-equivalent.
Tabs were a mistake. They were a hack to work around window managers that lacked enough features and now we have a "window manager" inside of a window manager. Probably most apps have their own tab interface which works differently from every other app. We should rethink the design, improve the window managers, then remove tabs. I don't think it will ever happen, but it would be nice.