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I'm also one of the heavy tab users (though even more on the high end: I routinely close hundreds of tabs when I tidy up my browser) and I can wholeheartedly re

I'm also one of the heavy tab users (though even more on the high end: I routinely close hundreds of tabs when I tidy up my browser) and I can wholeheartedly recommend the Tree Style Tab extension [1]. It automatically orders your tabs in a child-parent-relationship in a side-bar on the side of your screen, which is invaluable, when you e.g. search for a product on Amazon and have all of the competing products open in child-tabs below your search parent-tab. For Hackernews, I have the front page as parent tab, the discussion pages as children and all the links in the discussion as grandchildren, which neatly orders each context together. [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

forgotpwtomain 10y ago
What do you use for session management / syncing? I've found that the Chrome Session Buddy extension is highly preferable to the Firefox Session Manager. Why something so crucial is a hobbyist project on both ends and not internalized by the respective companies - I still wonder myself.
- newscracker 10y ago
  For session management (not sync), Session Manager [1] is an excellent extension. It's compatible with Tab Mix Plus, and I use it all the time. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/
vacri 10y ago
I'm a big fan of the old Panorama mode for my hundreds of tabs. Ctrl + Shift + E to display groups of tabs arranged how you like them. Panorama is now dead, but replaced by the 'Tab Groups' addon, keeping the dream alive. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa...
dredmorbius 10y ago
Tree-Style Tabs is an excellent example of implicit and automatic state structuring. Without you as a user having to do anything other than simply open up new tabs as is natural in your workflow, you create an explicit structure which shows the relation of various browser tabs to one another. The best thing about this is that you can treat an entire tab tree or subtree as a task, and when you are done, clear it out. Other elements of TST are that it can be placed as a sidebar, which, in this world of Very Wide Screen Displays, takes up extraneous space (for textual presentation) on the side of your screen, and frees up the precious and limited vertical space for more text state. I've tried several times, and largely given up, on explaining to Google's Peter Kasting (one of the core Chrome devs) why this is so useful. Google are apparently adopting the GNOME and systemd view that: 1. If you're a technically advanced user, you're not our target user base. 2. If you're not a technically advanced user, you're not qualified to comment on what's wrong with the product. Somehow, that never quite seems to work out right. Firefox's flexibility, particularly with tabs, is why I continue to use it despite some performance and functional advantages to Chrome. (On Android, Chrome's lack of adblock makes it almost entirely useless. I've salvaged it slightly through putting a hosts + DNSMasq adblock on my router -- DD-WRT. But that's only just barely sufficient. Adverts are a complete pox on the Web now.)

forgotpwtomain 10y ago

What do you use for session management / syncing? I've found that the Chrome Session Buddy extension is highly preferable to the Firefox Session Manager. Why something so crucial is a hobbyist project on both ends and not internalized by the respective companies - I still wonder myself.

newscracker 10y ago
For session management (not sync), Session Manager [1] is an excellent extension. It's compatible with Tab Mix Plus, and I use it all the time. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/session-manager/

vacri 10y ago

I'm a big fan of the old Panorama mode for my hundreds of tabs. Ctrl + Shift + E to display groups of tabs arranged how you like them. Panorama is now dead, but replaced by the 'Tab Groups' addon, keeping the dream alive. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-panorama/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-groups-pa...

dredmorbius 10y ago

Tree-Style Tabs is an excellent example of implicit and automatic state structuring. Without you as a user having to do anything other than simply open up new tabs as is natural in your workflow, you create an explicit structure which shows the relation of various browser tabs to one another. The best thing about this is that you can treat an entire tab tree or subtree as a task, and when you are done, clear it out. Other elements of TST are that it can be placed as a sidebar, which, in this world of Very Wide Screen Displays, takes up extraneous space (for textual presentation) on the side of your screen, and frees up the precious and limited vertical space for more text state. I've tried several times, and largely given up, on explaining to Google's Peter Kasting (one of the core Chrome devs) why this is so useful. Google are apparently adopting the GNOME and systemd view that: 1. If you're a technically advanced user, you're not our target user base. 2. If you're not a technically advanced user, you're not qualified to comment on what's wrong with the product. Somehow, that never quite seems to work out right. Firefox's flexibility, particularly with tabs, is why I continue to use it despite some performance and functional advantages to Chrome. (On Android, Chrome's lack of adblock makes it almost entirely useless. I've salvaged it slightly through putting a hosts + DNSMasq adblock on my router -- DD-WRT. But that's only just barely sufficient. Adverts are a complete pox on the Web now.)