A Study of Tabbed Browsing
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A Study of Tabbed Browsing
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Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#2About revisitation: is there a tool that saves the contents of every web page as I browse, and creates a searchable archive?
I think there is a much higher probability that webpages I have seen in the past contain relevant information for future searches. It could be used as an offline library, or as an advanced revisitation mechanism.
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#3Small sample size (21) and only one who preferred windows over tabs. Still, may be worth studying more.
I prefer browser tabs after resisting them for about a year. And I still prefer separate terminal windows. So maybe I'm not the best judge.
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#4Speaking of which, does anybody know how to turn off tabs in firefox, and make it instead open a new window when it would like to open a new tab? My WM already has tabs.
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#5Small sample size (21) and only one who preferred windows over tabs. Still, may be worth studying more. I prefer browser tabs after resisting them for about a year. And I still prefer separate terminal windows. So maybe I'm not the best judge.
Speaking of terminals, I personally find that a combination of panes (i.e. arbitrarily nested horizontal + vertical splits) and tabs is really the best of both worlds.
Tile Tabs [0] was an extension that used to enable this kind of workflow for Firefox, but with the WebExtensions transition I thought it'd be no longer available, but it looks like I was wrong. There's a Tile Tabs WE extension [1] now, that attempts to replicate the same experience using windows, but it's not quite the same in terms of usability and space efficiency, and makes it mostly pointless if you have a decent tiled window manager that can accomplish the same layouts (which is what I have generally defaulted to ever since losing Tile Tabs).
This and vertical tabs are the kinds of features that I wish were built into the core of browsers because it needs a lot of UX attention to really shine. While I'm glad vertical tabs seems to be getting first-class treatment from WebExtensions, it's a shame that panes-based workflows appears to be getting shafted.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs/
[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tile-tabs-we/
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#6I use tabs instead of bookmarks.
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#7Speaking of which, does anybody know how to turn off tabs in firefox, and make it instead open a new window when it would like to open a new tab? My WM already has tabs.
A bit of googling suggests that (historically at least, possibly still true) there isn't a built-in way, but you could with an addon. Most likely an addon can still do this - detect tab-open and convert to window-open ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't have any implementations I can point to, though. And a brief browse of about:config didn't yield anything interesting.
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#8Small sample size (21) and only one who preferred windows over tabs. Still, may be worth studying more. I prefer browser tabs after resisting them for about a year. And I still prefer separate terminal windows. So maybe I'm not the best judge.
Speaking of terminals, I personally find that a combination of panes (i.e. arbitrarily nested horizontal + vertical splits) and tabs is really the best of both worlds. Tile Tabs [0] was an extension that used to enable this kind of workflow for Firefox, but with the WebExtensions transition I thought it'd be no longer available, but it looks like I was wrong. There's a Tile Tabs WE extension [1] now, that attempts to…
It looks like they’re working on panes
https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7hs9tn/teaser_scre...
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#9Speaking of which, does anybody know how to turn off tabs in firefox, and make it instead open a new window when it would like to open a new tab? My WM already has tabs.
In about:config set browser.tabs.opentabfor.middleclick to true and instead of Ctrl + Click use Shift + Click on links to open them in new windows instead of tabs.
Also uncheck "Open new windows in a new tab instead" in Options in GUI or set browser.link.open_newwindow to 2 instead of 3 (it's the same thing) to make pop ups open in new windows instead of tabs.
There might be an extension to remap the Ctrl/Shift shortcut or abandon tabs altogether but I don't know of any.
Googling turns up results like https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/ but it's of course not compatible with Quantum.
Re: A Study of Tabbed Browsing
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Speaking of terminals, I personally find that a combination of panes (i.e. arbitrarily nested horizontal + vertical splits) and tabs is really the best of both worlds. Tile Tabs [0] was an extension that used to enable this kind of workflow for Firefox, but with the WebExtensions transition I thought it'd be no longer available, but it looks like I was wrong. There's a Tile Tabs WE extension [1] now, that attempts to…
It looks like they’re working on panes https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/7hs9tn/teaser_scre...
Beautiful! Thank you for bringing this to my attention.
The Firefox Test Pilot teams have been coming up with some consistently awesome features, and generally with great UX.
I can't wait to try out their take on panes!