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60-100!! That's (personally) so many. How do you know which tab is which and where it is? My colleague has about 20 or 30 tabs open on Chrome and each time he w

60-100!! That's (personally) so many. How do you know which tab is which and where it is? My colleague has about 20 or 30 tabs open on Chrome and each time he wants me to look over his chrome for any debugging purpose, I get frusrated that I can't find where the right tab is! (I'm assuming there is a better tab management tool out there).

ivanche 10y ago
TabMixPlus to the rescue :) I set all tabs to have fixed width (so around 8 tabs per row) and to show 3 rows of tabs. Also unread tabs have title in red italic, current tab in blue bold and read tabs in black regular. Works for me :)
akerro 10y ago
I use TreeStyleTab [1] and usually have more than 150 tabs at the same time on my PC and around 60-100 on my professional computers (at home and at work). I sort them by category, then when I have a spare day I read dozens of news one by one, or when I'm in a mood, I read by categories what I like. In the last 3 years I tried to switch to Opera and Chome a few times, but they... they just suck for my requirements. Firefox lets you search by bookmark, history and open tabs, which is really useful in my cases (I also have hundreds of bookmarks). [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
bzbarsky 10y ago
> and where it is? Firefox has UI for searching your tabs. You focus the location bar, type "% " followed by a string (but don't hit enter!) and it searches the urls and titles of the things in your tabs for that string and shows you a list of results. Selecting one of those results will select the corresponding tab. If you leave out the "% " it will still search your open tabs, but also your history; some of the history results can appear above some of the tab results, depending on how often you visit pages vs selecting their tabs and whatnot. >How do you know which tab is which Firefox always shows the site icon and first word or two of the page title in the tab; unlike Chrome it has a minimal tab size (precisely so you can see what the tab is!) and a scrolling UI so you can go swipe through the list when there are too many to fit in the window and look for the one you want if you don't want to use the text search option. There are also various extensions that help people manage tabs, but even the built-in setup is quite usable (speaking as someone who has a lot of tabs open and does not use those extensions). I agree that Chrome's non-scrolling UI, which just shrinks the tabs until nothing is visible in the tab and then starts not showing the later ones at all so you have to use keyboard shortcuts to even consider trying to get to them, makes using more than about 10 tabs pretty much impossible. But that's just because the UI sucks, not an inherent property of having many tabs open.

ivanche 10y ago

TabMixPlus to the rescue :) I set all tabs to have fixed width (so around 8 tabs per row) and to show 3 rows of tabs. Also unread tabs have title in red italic, current tab in blue bold and read tabs in black regular. Works for me :)

akerro 10y ago

I use TreeStyleTab [1] and usually have more than 150 tabs at the same time on my PC and around 60-100 on my professional computers (at home and at work). I sort them by category, then when I have a spare day I read dozens of news one by one, or when I'm in a mood, I read by categories what I like. In the last 3 years I tried to switch to Opera and Chome a few times, but they... they just suck for my requirements. Firefox lets you search by bookmark, history and open tabs, which is really useful in my cases (I also have hundreds of bookmarks). [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

bzbarsky 10y ago

> and where it is? Firefox has UI for searching your tabs. You focus the location bar, type "% " followed by a string (but don't hit enter!) and it searches the urls and titles of the things in your tabs for that string and shows you a list of results. Selecting one of those results will select the corresponding tab. If you leave out the "% " it will still search your open tabs, but also your history; some of the history results can appear above some of the tab results, depending on how often you visit pages vs selecting their tabs and whatnot. >How do you know which tab is which Firefox always shows the site icon and first word or two of the page title in the tab; unlike Chrome it has a minimal tab size (precisely so you can see what the tab is!) and a scrolling UI so you can go swipe through the list when there are too many to fit in the window and look for the one you want if you don't want to use the text search option. There are also various extensions that help people manage tabs, but even the built-in setup is quite usable (speaking as someone who has a lot of tabs open and does not use those extensions). I agree that Chrome's non-scrolling UI, which just shrinks the tabs until nothing is visible in the tab and then starts not showing the later ones at all so you have to use keyboard shortcuts to even consider trying to get to them, makes using more than about 10 tabs pretty much impossible. But that's just because the UI sucks, not an inherent property of having many tabs open.