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"Tabs you haven’t looked at in a while dim, so you can focus on what you’re working on" - I like the sound of this. Is anyone aware of a Firefox addon which doe

"Tabs you haven’t looked at in a while dim, so you can focus on what you’re working on" - I like the sound of this. Is anyone aware of a Firefox addon which does the same?

danielhellier 11y ago
And on that note, anyone aware if a Chrome extension does this?
- deleted 11y ago
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- dreen 11y ago
  The Great Suspender, which actually suspends the processes of these tabs, very useful if you have lots of tabs https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
  - degenerate 11y ago
    Yes it suspends the process, but doesn't visually indicate this by fading/sorting the tabs for you. At least, not the version I used a year ago. (edit: it does now!)
    - noxToken 11y ago
      It visually indicates it by replacing the site's favicon with the app's icon. If you see blocky face, your tab has been suspended.
    - dreen 11y ago
      For me it fades the favicon slightly http://i.imgur.com/y1xSEtF.png http://i.imgur.com/y1xSEtF.png To be fair the suspend feature is the killer here
- cha5m 11y ago
  After dicking around with the API for a while I found that that you can highlight/dim tabs using chrome.tabs.highlight running in a background script of an extension. Maybe I'll spend a little while tomorrow making a more complete version.
pawsthebear 11y ago
Basic userstyle / userchrome css: #TabsToolbar tab:not([selected="true"]) { background: pink !important; transition-property: background-color !important; transition-duration: 15s !important; transition-delay: 5s !important; } Just tested seems to work fine. Might need some tweaking with #TabsToolbar .tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected]) { ... } etc.
Mahn 11y ago
On that note, how come that (almost) no browser vendor is experimenting with better UIs for tabs? It seems that they have remained the exact same for the last decade in both Firefox and Chrome. I get that they are functional for the casual user, but for those of us that live and work in the browser we could use more functionality. I could picture for example grouping/ungrouping tabs in a single window, bundling similar tabs, changing the color of the tab depending on how often it's used, a better way to nagivate between multiple browser windows (or "super tabs"), etc. You could argue that you should rely on extensions if you are power user, but then with the trend that Chrome has set (and now Firefox follows) of extensions being small web apps packaged with an icon, there's not a lot extensions can do to fundamentally change how browser tabs works. Whether tabs become smarter and more functionally rich depends almost exclusively on whether Google, Mozilla or Microsoft decide to experiment it.
- thiht 11y ago
  Slightly relevant: https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-isn-t-a-browser-685b63c4b6f1#.tujcqa91w https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-i...
  - tedmiston 11y ago
    tl;dr - Mozilla engineers are doing a series of experiments questioning if how we interact with the browser today can be improved vs. the habits and workflows we've developed since the early days.
- Nadya 11y ago
  >I could picture for example grouping/ungrouping tabs in a single window, bundling similar tabs, changing the color of the tab depending on how often it's used, a better way to nagivate between multiple browser windows (or "super tabs"), etc Grouping/Ungrouping tabs, to my understanding of what you mean, existed in Firefox and was just removed from the browser and pushed into an add-on. It's called "Group Tabs" and I use it extensively. Or I could have this mistaken for 'bundling similar tabs'. I'm not sure on the semantic difference you mean between the two. Multiple browser windows seems redundant with multiple tabs or the Group Tabs mentioned above. I use a Firefox addon called FireGestures. Not for the mouse gestures that it is primarily designed for - but because one of the wheel gestures: "[Popup] List All Tabs" Basically it allows me to hold down right click and use my scroll wheel to switch tabs from anywhere in my browser window. So I hide the tabs up top and get more screen estate! A win-win scenario! It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/Wz5Jx9p.png http://i.imgur.com/Wz5Jx9p.png
john_reel 11y ago
You may want to look into BarTab
chocolateboy 11y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-t...
skrowl 11y ago
Try Bartab Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ Bartab Plus can actually completely unload a tab after X amount of minutes / hours. The tab is dimmed and comes back / reloads automatically when you click on it. This along with tab groups - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa... allows you to have hundreds of tabs at your fingertips across any number of groups, without paying the performance impact of having them all actually loaded at once.

"Tabs you haven’t looked at in a while dim, so you can focus on what you’re working on" - I like the sound of this. Is anyone aware of a Firefox addon which does the same?

danielhellier 11y ago

And on that note, anyone aware if a Chrome extension does this?

deleted 11y ago
[deleted]
dreen 11y ago
The Great Suspender, which actually suspends the processes of these tabs, very useful if you have lots of tabs https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspender/klbibkeccnjlkjkiokjodocebajanakg?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...
- degenerate 11y ago
  Yes it suspends the process, but doesn't visually indicate this by fading/sorting the tabs for you. At least, not the version I used a year ago. (edit: it does now!)
  - noxToken 11y ago
    It visually indicates it by replacing the site's favicon with the app's icon. If you see blocky face, your tab has been suspended.
  - dreen 11y ago
    For me it fades the favicon slightly http://i.imgur.com/y1xSEtF.png http://i.imgur.com/y1xSEtF.png To be fair the suspend feature is the killer here
cha5m 11y ago
After dicking around with the API for a while I found that that you can highlight/dim tabs using chrome.tabs.highlight running in a background script of an extension. Maybe I'll spend a little while tomorrow making a more complete version.

pawsthebear 11y ago

Basic userstyle / userchrome css: #TabsToolbar tab:not([selected="true"]) { background: pink !important; transition-property: background-color !important; transition-duration: 15s !important; transition-delay: 5s !important; } Just tested seems to work fine. Might need some tweaking with #TabsToolbar .tabbrowser-tab:hover:not([selected]) { ... } etc.

Mahn 11y ago

On that note, how come that (almost) no browser vendor is experimenting with better UIs for tabs? It seems that they have remained the exact same for the last decade in both Firefox and Chrome. I get that they are functional for the casual user, but for those of us that live and work in the browser we could use more functionality. I could picture for example grouping/ungrouping tabs in a single window, bundling similar tabs, changing the color of the tab depending on how often it's used, a better way to nagivate between multiple browser windows (or "super tabs"), etc. You could argue that you should rely on extensions if you are power user, but then with the trend that Chrome has set (and now Firefox follows) of extensions being small web apps packaged with an icon, there's not a lot extensions can do to fundamentally change how browser tabs works. Whether tabs become smarter and more functionally rich depends almost exclusively on whether Google, Mozilla or Microsoft decide to experiment it.

thiht 11y ago
Slightly relevant: https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-isn-t-a-browser-685b63c4b6f1#.tujcqa91w https://medium.com/project-tofino/designing-a-browser-that-i...
- tedmiston 11y ago
  tl;dr - Mozilla engineers are doing a series of experiments questioning if how we interact with the browser today can be improved vs. the habits and workflows we've developed since the early days.
Nadya 11y ago
>I could picture for example grouping/ungrouping tabs in a single window, bundling similar tabs, changing the color of the tab depending on how often it's used, a better way to nagivate between multiple browser windows (or "super tabs"), etc Grouping/Ungrouping tabs, to my understanding of what you mean, existed in Firefox and was just removed from the browser and pushed into an add-on. It's called "Group Tabs" and I use it extensively. Or I could have this mistaken for 'bundling similar tabs'. I'm not sure on the semantic difference you mean between the two. Multiple browser windows seems redundant with multiple tabs or the Group Tabs mentioned above. I use a Firefox addon called FireGestures. Not for the mouse gestures that it is primarily designed for - but because one of the wheel gestures: "[Popup] List All Tabs" Basically it allows me to hold down right click and use my scroll wheel to switch tabs from anywhere in my browser window. So I hide the tabs up top and get more screen estate! A win-win scenario! It looks like this: http://i.imgur.com/Wz5Jx9p.png http://i.imgur.com/Wz5Jx9p.png

john_reel 11y ago

You may want to look into BarTab

chocolateboy 11y ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-lite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-unload-t...

skrowl 11y ago

Try Bartab Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bartab-plus/ Bartab Plus can actually completely unload a tab after X amount of minutes / hours. The tab is dimmed and comes back / reloads automatically when you click on it. This along with tab groups - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa... allows you to have hundreds of tabs at your fingertips across any number of groups, without paying the performance impact of having them all actually loaded at once.