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There might be a more effective way to accomplish what I do with many tabs, but it works for me at the moment so I haven't attempted to find a browser plugin or
by humblebee 10y ago
There might be a more effective way to accomplish what I do with many tabs, but it works for me at the moment so I haven't attempted to find a browser plugin or extension to change the behavior.
I use many tabs as a stack of pages when debugging, researching, or reading aggregate news feeds (reddit, hn). It usually starts with a Google search or two, in which I open all links I think _might_ be relevant based off of what information google can provide me from the results page.
From there I read through each and open any further tabs if anything is linked too in the text (I hardly ever actually click navigate, it's most always a new tab). Generally this only goes about 3 deep (search, first page, sub links). I will close any pages that I find have no useful information, but if there is anything I think might be useful in the next 30 minutes I just leave it open. I do this for each of the results I originally opened. Somewhere in the 7-15 tabs generally is the answer I'm looking for or at least there is enough information I can answer my question. If any link is particularly beneficial, I will bookmark it. Generally the time span I have a large number of tabs open is no more than an hour before I'm finished and close everything out.
Chrome handles this nicely, if you are on a page and open a tab, it will place the new tab next to the current tab, instead of at the end of the tab list. Some sort of tree tab view would probably work much better for this, but Chromes behavior isn't bad for what I do.
- RainaRelanah 10y agoFor tree tab view, I suggest looking at Tabs Outliner. I can't use Chrome without it anymore.
- twic 10y agoI have this pattern. It plays really well with the 'close all tabs to the right' menu option, because once you've found whatever you were looking for, you can nuke all the leftover tabs. What I'd really like, though, is a 'close all descendant tabs' option.