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A feature that would interest me more, is to have a visual indicator of tab parent tab. For example, I have tab A, I cmd+click on some links to open them in ot

by kuon 10y ago

A feature that would interest me more, is to have a visual indicator of tab parent tab. For example, I have tab A, I cmd+click on some links to open them in other tabs. I go read the other tabs. Then, it would help me greatly to have a way to go back to the original tab A. But I'm more after a visual indicator or something non intrusive than a change of paradigm with tons of useless information.

nsomaru 10y ago
see "tree style tabs" for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
- timlyo 10y ago
  I've considered moving back to Firefox just to have this again. It's such a great thing if you open almost everything in a new tab like I do.
dorian-graph 10y ago
Older versions of IE had something like this. When you opened a new tab from a link in a tab (as opposed to creating a blank tab and writing something in the address bar), it would have the same colour [1]. [1] http://www.guidingtech.com/assets/postimages/2010/11/tabgroupsinIE81.png http://www.guidingtech.com/assets/postimages/2010/11/tabgrou...
nine_k 10y ago
Firefox has an addon called Tree Style Tab [1] that makes tabs form a tree, with parent/child relationships made obvious. It helps me enormously. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
- throwanem 10y ago
  I used to use it, but found that it encourages poor tab hygiene - the lousy default UI actually provides an IMO useful constraint in that it quickly grows easier to sweep stale tabs and windows into a todo or for-later-reading list, or just dispose of them, rather than put up with the annoyance of letting them clutter the UI. A history graph, on the other hand, seems like a lovely thing to have. My version control systems and my text editor already represent history as a dag, and it's nice to see the same capability arriving in the third of the tools I use all day, every day.
  - morsch 10y ago
    I used to use it, but found that it encourages poor tab hygiene In my experience the opposite is true; Tree Style Tabs makes it easy to close an entire tree of tabs once you're done with a topic. Or alternatively, to move out one tab which contains the "result" (e.g. the lawnmover that you'll end up buying after 4 hours of research) and then get rid of the rest.
    - gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y ago
      Even better is that you can bookmark a whole tree of tabs. And reopen later.
- andrepd 10y ago
  Alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-tree/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-tree/
awongh 10y ago
I made a chrome tab manager extension that just uses arrows to show which tabs opened which other tabs (specifically that cmd + click workflow) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/overtab/leceanmnoanolhdkonbapdkplgikipon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/overtab/leceanmnoa...

by kuon 10y ago

nsomaru 10y ago

see "tree style tabs" for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

timlyo 10y ago
I've considered moving back to Firefox just to have this again. It's such a great thing if you open almost everything in a new tab like I do.

dorian-graph 10y ago

Older versions of IE had something like this. When you opened a new tab from a link in a tab (as opposed to creating a blank tab and writing something in the address bar), it would have the same colour [1]. [1] http://www.guidingtech.com/assets/postimages/2010/11/tabgroupsinIE81.png http://www.guidingtech.com/assets/postimages/2010/11/tabgrou...

nine_k 10y ago

Firefox has an addon called Tree Style Tab [1] that makes tabs form a tree, with parent/child relationships made obvious. It helps me enormously. [1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

throwanem 10y ago
I used to use it, but found that it encourages poor tab hygiene - the lousy default UI actually provides an IMO useful constraint in that it quickly grows easier to sweep stale tabs and windows into a todo or for-later-reading list, or just dispose of them, rather than put up with the annoyance of letting them clutter the UI. A history graph, on the other hand, seems like a lovely thing to have. My version control systems and my text editor already represent history as a dag, and it's nice to see the same capability arriving in the third of the tools I use all day, every day.
- morsch 10y ago
  I used to use it, but found that it encourages poor tab hygiene In my experience the opposite is true; Tree Style Tabs makes it easy to close an entire tree of tabs once you're done with a topic. Or alternatively, to move out one tab which contains the "result" (e.g. the lawnmover that you'll end up buying after 4 hours of research) and then get rid of the rest.
  - gjjrfcbugxbhf 10y ago
    Even better is that you can bookmark a whole tree of tabs. And reopen later.
andrepd 10y ago
Alternative: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-tree/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-tree/

awongh 10y ago

I made a chrome tab manager extension that just uses arrows to show which tabs opened which other tabs (specifically that cmd + click workflow) https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/overtab/leceanmnoanolhdkonbapdkplgikipon https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/overtab/leceanmnoa...