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I live and die by these two cmds on my browser. wow. how else do people manage the avalanche of tabs that is browsing today?

the_rara_avis 10y ago
I am a tab hoarder and cannot survive without https://www.one-tab.com/ https://www.one-tab.com/
marxidad 10y ago
I use Tab Wrangler https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjhciaieeiiohknchakcodbpgjnchh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjh...
ams6110 10y ago
As someone who rarely has more than a few tabs open, I honestly don't get this. What are you doing with so many tabs?
- lparry 10y ago
  I can't speak for the other commenters, but for me it's because my browsing style was formed back in the days of dialup in Australia. You'd click a link and wait 30+ seconds to have the page load, so instead of staring a loading page you'd open anything that looked interesting in a new tab and continue on the current page, so all the interesting links would be there ready to read without waiting. invariably you wouldn't end up having enough time to read them all, but they piqued your interest enough to open them, so you'd keep them around in the hope that some time later you would. Rinse, lather, repeat, and add in persistent browser sessions between restarts and suddenly you've got 100+ tabs open. The internet is much faster these days, but I still open way more links than I actually have time to read because they sound interesting
  - pvinis 10y ago
    I do that with HN actually. I visit between a few times a day and once every second day. I open whatever I think is interesting. Usually 1-10 tabs every time I go to HN. then I spend time in one or two tabs and read a lot, and close these two. Then I still have 8 tabs open. Second step is repeat. Third step is I have 400 tabs open.
- alphaomegacode 10y ago
  Use case that I'd guess many on HN would relate to: research and source documents. When researching some topic, it's common to have the source document or documents open and then other tabs where people comment on them. For example, if I'm checking some Python docs, I'll sometimes check how more knowledgeable programmers have solved some edge cases.
CharlesW 10y ago
It's not hyperbole to say that Tabs Outliner changed my browsing life. Make per-task windows, open and save them at will.

the_rara_avis 10y ago

I am a tab hoarder and cannot survive without https://www.one-tab.com/ https://www.one-tab.com/

marxidad 10y ago

I use Tab Wrangler https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjhciaieeiiohknchakcodbpgjnchh https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-wrangler/egnjh...

ams6110 10y ago

As someone who rarely has more than a few tabs open, I honestly don't get this. What are you doing with so many tabs?

lparry 10y ago
I can't speak for the other commenters, but for me it's because my browsing style was formed back in the days of dialup in Australia. You'd click a link and wait 30+ seconds to have the page load, so instead of staring a loading page you'd open anything that looked interesting in a new tab and continue on the current page, so all the interesting links would be there ready to read without waiting. invariably you wouldn't end up having enough time to read them all, but they piqued your interest enough to open them, so you'd keep them around in the hope that some time later you would. Rinse, lather, repeat, and add in persistent browser sessions between restarts and suddenly you've got 100+ tabs open. The internet is much faster these days, but I still open way more links than I actually have time to read because they sound interesting
- pvinis 10y ago
  I do that with HN actually. I visit between a few times a day and once every second day. I open whatever I think is interesting. Usually 1-10 tabs every time I go to HN. then I spend time in one or two tabs and read a lot, and close these two. Then I still have 8 tabs open. Second step is repeat. Third step is I have 400 tabs open.
alphaomegacode 10y ago
Use case that I'd guess many on HN would relate to: research and source documents. When researching some topic, it's common to have the source document or documents open and then other tabs where people comment on them. For example, if I'm checking some Python docs, I'll sometimes check how more knowledgeable programmers have solved some edge cases.

CharlesW 10y ago

It's not hyperbole to say that Tabs Outliner changed my browsing life. Make per-task windows, open and save them at will.