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Is it the vertical display that people like about Tree Style Tabs, or the inheritance/nesting? I've always wondered why spawned child tabs don't retain the `Ba

by pkamb 9y ago

Is it the vertical display that people like about Tree Style Tabs, or the inheritance/nesting? I've always wondered why spawned child tabs don't retain the `Back` history to go back to the web page that created them. Would be so useful; do any extensions exist?

randkyp 9y ago
For me, it's both. Nesting is helpful as a visual history indicator and a quick way to prune unused tabs that were opened closely in time. Great when you're doing a quick research. The vertical display helps locating tabs by its title and in general, narrower text on a page is easier to read. (Most screens nowadays are widescreen. Some blogs even overcompensate for this by having huge margins and even huge ads on the sidebar, but that's another story.)
Manishearth 9y ago
FWIW Tab Center Redux (which may have been moved into Tab Center itself, the old, formerly-non-webext addon, not sure if that happened) is pure vertical tabs with no tree. I like it a lot. Most folks who use Tree Style Tabs use the tree extensively. I generally try to keep nesting to one level, sometimes two.
akho 9y ago
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/backtrack-tab-history/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/backtrack-tab... Doesn’t work with 57, sadly.
jacquesm 9y ago
100's of tabs open regularly, without TST it is impossible to keep track of what is where without constantly searching.
ikurei 9y ago
I'd say it's both. Anecdotally, to me being able to see the whole title and in a vertical list is just enough to like it, it makes it so much easier to find something among a shitload of tabs. Also, I feel it's a much better use of space in widescreen displays. The tree part of it is less important, but also very useful to visually group related tabs. Task-managing feels wrong to me in most (all?) OSes I've tried. A browser window with 100 tabs, relating to different research topics and ideas, feels wrong. For that, I'd rather use one window per topic, and have the tabs in there be related, and that's what I tend to do. It's not always comfortable, and having several big/fullscreen windows from the same app in MacOS is a PITA. Also, you don't always know how much a task is gowing to grow and branch out... I'm always curious to know how other people deal with this and how they feel about it.

by pkamb 9y ago

randkyp 9y ago

For me, it's both. Nesting is helpful as a visual history indicator and a quick way to prune unused tabs that were opened closely in time. Great when you're doing a quick research. The vertical display helps locating tabs by its title and in general, narrower text on a page is easier to read. (Most screens nowadays are widescreen. Some blogs even overcompensate for this by having huge margins and even huge ads on the sidebar, but that's another story.)

Manishearth 9y ago

FWIW Tab Center Redux (which may have been moved into Tab Center itself, the old, formerly-non-webext addon, not sure if that happened) is pure vertical tabs with no tree. I like it a lot. Most folks who use Tree Style Tabs use the tree extensively. I generally try to keep nesting to one level, sometimes two.

akho 9y ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/backtrack-tab-history/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/backtrack-tab... Doesn’t work with 57, sadly.

jacquesm 9y ago

100's of tabs open regularly, without TST it is impossible to keep track of what is where without constantly searching.

ikurei 9y ago

I'd say it's both. Anecdotally, to me being able to see the whole title and in a vertical list is just enough to like it, it makes it so much easier to find something among a shitload of tabs. Also, I feel it's a much better use of space in widescreen displays. The tree part of it is less important, but also very useful to visually group related tabs. Task-managing feels wrong to me in most (all?) OSes I've tried. A browser window with 100 tabs, relating to different research topics and ideas, feels wrong. For that, I'd rather use one window per topic, and have the tabs in there be related, and that's what I tend to do. It's not always comfortable, and having several big/fullscreen windows from the same app in MacOS is a PITA. Also, you don't always know how much a task is gowing to grow and branch out... I'm always curious to know how other people deal with this and how they feel about it.