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> Chrome's UI is terrible for multiple tabs. I'm pretty sure that's because Chrome's UX team don't expect you to have hundreds of tabs open. Why does your work

> Chrome's UI is terrible for multiple tabs. I'm pretty sure that's because Chrome's UX team don't expect you to have hundreds of tabs open. Why does your workflow require you to have that many tabs? Hundreds of tabs just seems an insane number to me. Even if you could search by tab you'd likely forget the names of the ones that were there in the first place. Can you think of another app where you would have that many things open at once? If not, why are browsers with tabs different? The rule of thumb with UI design is that users can remember about 7 things in their short term memory.

kuschku 9y ago
It also searches URLs and in some cases fulltext.
- seanwilson 9y ago
  Why does a tab need to be open for this though? For me, the point of open tabs is that I know what they contain and can switch between them quickly with a quick click. Having to search for them defeats their purpose.
  - Manishearth 9y ago
    In my case I don't have to search for them, they're pretty well organized by related topic. I can switch pretty quickly, and sometimes need to do a tab search when context switching to another task. The "tab search" is exactly the same effort as opening a new page, in fact, what often happens is I decide to switch to doing something else, and type in the URL bar for history search, and it tells me I already have tabs open for it (which means I also have existing state in those tabs), which is great. I usually know that there's a tab open, but my workflow is the same whether they are or aren't.
  - weaksauce 9y ago
    you might like a small webextension I made for firefox and chrome that displays all the tabs in a new tab grouped by window. click on one of the links and it will open up the window and focus on that tab. firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ open source here: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist

kuschku 9y ago

It also searches URLs and in some cases fulltext.

seanwilson 9y ago
Why does a tab need to be open for this though? For me, the point of open tabs is that I know what they contain and can switch between them quickly with a quick click. Having to search for them defeats their purpose.
- Manishearth 9y ago
  In my case I don't have to search for them, they're pretty well organized by related topic. I can switch pretty quickly, and sometimes need to do a tab search when context switching to another task. The "tab search" is exactly the same effort as opening a new page, in fact, what often happens is I decide to switch to doing something else, and type in the URL bar for history search, and it tells me I already have tabs open for it (which means I also have existing state in those tabs), which is great. I usually know that there's a tab open, but my workflow is the same whether they are or aren't.
- weaksauce 9y ago
  you might like a small webextension I made for firefox and chrome that displays all the tabs in a new tab grouped by window. click on one of the links and it will open up the window and focus on that tab. firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ open source here: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist