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Periodically I keep coming back to HN to pretty much say the same thing. Which is that tabs are used as a replacement for bookmarks. And that's pretty much be

Periodically I keep coming back to HN to pretty much say the same thing. Which is that tabs are used as a replacement for bookmarks. And that's pretty much because of the failing of a good browser bookmark UI. I've tried many tab extensions and haven't been happy with any of them. You can easily leapfrog Chrome with a better web interface and web page helpers. I see no radically visible innovation with Firefox or Chrome for that matter. I had an Apple Powerbook, that with age couldn't cope with 'modern' web sites. So I took great pains to make browsing easier. Now I notice the same creep on 'modern' machines. JS may be processed faster, and pages rendered quicker, but many web resources are becoming more bloated and this ruins the browsing experience. I have gone back to having one browser with no javascript running, just so I can read some pages, as I'm fed up with the inherent slow down. Yeah some 'appy' sites/pages are impressive. But the bog standard web pages that eat my computer's resources to display a few adverts alongside a passage of text or a picture is pretty dreadful. Being able to easily identify and manage these laggy sites would be a help. There are tools but they aren't that accessible or easy to read or use. And after running Windows 10 for the first time at the weekend, I can see how the Desktop UI and admin interface is still comparatively stuck in the stone age. So in short I think there is plenty of room for improvement, across the board.

superkuh 10y ago
Session files of tabs are also better than bookmarks since they save per-tab history so you can see how you arrived somewhere. The per-tab process switch is bad for users like us (I have 300+ tabs right now) but what is even worse in FF48 is the implementation of a walled garden for extensions.
- flushandforget 10y ago
  That's a good point about tab/session history. That's another area that could see improvement. I frequently open a link in a new tab, so also having that web of history between tabs could be useful. I've been terribly unproductive today. Darting back and forth to sites. I have a tendency to close tabs if I can. But sometimes when distracted, open something back up, like a forum to see if there is change. And I may in truth have only opened it about 10 minutes earlier. Last visited/popular site list helper could be of use there. Or of course not procrastinating in the first place.
  - ComodoHacker 10y ago
    >Last visited/popular site list Don't both Firefox and Chrome have it, right in the URL bar?
    - flushandforget 10y ago
      Where? Assume you mean: Chrome -> burger menu -> History and recent tabs. Firefox -> History -> Recently closed tabs/windows. Not the best or easiest method to get to that info. Nested menus are only useful for occasional functions. They are a bit of a faff.
      - ComodoHacker 10y ago
        In Firefox, go to URL bar and click drop-down list button (or press Alt+Down). Not sure about Chrome now, I thought it was the same but turns out it doesn't work.
        flushandforget 10y ago
        I get a list of of sites, have no idea why they are there. They differ to most visited, and are not last visited.
        ComodoHacker 10y ago
        The algorithm is the same as for displaying tiles in a new tab[1]. For me, it works perfectly. 1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-tiles-new-tab https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-tiles-new-tab
        flushandforget 10y ago
        Oh it's called frecency is it? That's different to what I wanted. But least I have an idea of what it is now. Ta.

superkuh 10y ago

Session files of tabs are also better than bookmarks since they save per-tab history so you can see how you arrived somewhere. The per-tab process switch is bad for users like us (I have 300+ tabs right now) but what is even worse in FF48 is the implementation of a walled garden for extensions.

flushandforget 10y ago
That's a good point about tab/session history. That's another area that could see improvement. I frequently open a link in a new tab, so also having that web of history between tabs could be useful. I've been terribly unproductive today. Darting back and forth to sites. I have a tendency to close tabs if I can. But sometimes when distracted, open something back up, like a forum to see if there is change. And I may in truth have only opened it about 10 minutes earlier. Last visited/popular site list helper could be of use there. Or of course not procrastinating in the first place.
- ComodoHacker 10y ago
  >Last visited/popular site list Don't both Firefox and Chrome have it, right in the URL bar?
  - flushandforget 10y ago
    Where? Assume you mean: Chrome -> burger menu -> History and recent tabs. Firefox -> History -> Recently closed tabs/windows. Not the best or easiest method to get to that info. Nested menus are only useful for occasional functions. They are a bit of a faff.
    - ComodoHacker 10y ago
      In Firefox, go to URL bar and click drop-down list button (or press Alt+Down). Not sure about Chrome now, I thought it was the same but turns out it doesn't work.
      - flushandforget 10y ago
        I get a list of of sites, have no idea why they are there. They differ to most visited, and are not last visited.
        ComodoHacker 10y ago
        The algorithm is the same as for displaying tiles in a new tab[1]. For me, it works perfectly. 1. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-tiles-new-tab https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-tiles-new-tab
        flushandforget 10y ago
        Oh it's called frecency is it? That's different to what I wanted. But least I have an idea of what it is now. Ta.