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Very true. Chrome can never handle my 150+ tabs per window that Firefox can.

by laken 9y ago

nkkollaw 9y ago
What do you do with 150 tabs? When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...
- nachtigall 9y ago
  With Tree Style Tabs plus the Awesome bar it is not a problem to handle and it's easy to get up to this number over the day.
  - nkkollaw 9y ago
    But, so I guess you open links in a new tab and don't bother closing them?
    - unicornporn 9y ago
      I easily reach a hundred tabs with Tree Style Tabs when researching a topic. The tree structure makes it easy to understand how you've navigated the web and to traceback where you came from. When I found what I've what I was looking for I start closing tabs. The ones that remain is my catch and I save the URLs and/or contents.
      - nkkollaw 9y ago
        Gotcha. Interesting. :-)
        nachtigall 9y ago
        Just for completeness: * Firefox's Awesomebar (the address bar) is much more powerful. Whereas Chromes sends you to google mainly: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#w_changing-results-on-the-fly_2 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire... * Tree Style Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
        seba_dos1 9y ago
        There's also Tab Center Redux, for people who already need a better way to handle tabs, but don't need or want to use trees there: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-redux/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re... Thanks to Firefox's userChrome.css, you can pull pretty nice customized UIs even without any additional extensions :) https://github.com/eoger/tabcenter-redux/wiki/Custom-CSS-Tweaks#complete-looknfeels https://github.com/eoger/tabcenter-redux/wiki/Custom-CSS-Twe...
  - unicornporn 9y ago
    Came here to say that. Tree Style Tabs makes ut possible to navigate an unhealthy amount of tabs.
- bzbarsky 9y ago
  Not the original poster, but... I have 9 virtual desktops; I typically have browsers in 6-7 of them for various in-progress tasks. That's somewhere between 6 and 14 browser windows (I can fit two side by side on my screen), with multiple tabs in each. Finding things is easy. Even ignoring the per-task categorization by desktop, Firefox lets you search all your tab titles/urls: just type "% " in the URL bar followed by your search string. If I'm looking for something specific, this is the simplest way to find it.

Very true. Chrome can never handle my 150+ tabs per window that Firefox can.

by laken 9y ago

Very true. Chrome can never handle my 150+ tabs per window that Firefox can.

nkkollaw 9y ago

What do you do with 150 tabs? When I have 20 open I already start to get confused about where stuff is...

nachtigall 9y ago
With Tree Style Tabs plus the Awesome bar it is not a problem to handle and it's easy to get up to this number over the day.
- nkkollaw 9y ago
  But, so I guess you open links in a new tab and don't bother closing them?
  - unicornporn 9y ago
    I easily reach a hundred tabs with Tree Style Tabs when researching a topic. The tree structure makes it easy to understand how you've navigated the web and to traceback where you came from. When I found what I've what I was looking for I start closing tabs. The ones that remain is my catch and I save the URLs and/or contents.
    - nkkollaw 9y ago
      Gotcha. Interesting. :-)
      - nachtigall 9y ago
        Just for completeness: * Firefox's Awesomebar (the address bar) is much more powerful. Whereas Chromes sends you to google mainly: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-firefox-bookmarks-history-tabs?redirectlocale=en-US&redirectslug=awesome-bar-find-your-bookmarks-history-and-tabs#w_changing-results-on-the-fly_2 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/awesome-bar-search-fire... * Tree Style Tab: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
        seba_dos1 9y ago
        There's also Tab Center Redux, for people who already need a better way to handle tabs, but don't need or want to use trees there: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-redux/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-center-re... Thanks to Firefox's userChrome.css, you can pull pretty nice customized UIs even without any additional extensions :) https://github.com/eoger/tabcenter-redux/wiki/Custom-CSS-Tweaks#complete-looknfeels https://github.com/eoger/tabcenter-redux/wiki/Custom-CSS-Twe...
- unicornporn 9y ago
  Came here to say that. Tree Style Tabs makes ut possible to navigate an unhealthy amount of tabs.
bzbarsky 9y ago
Not the original poster, but... I have 9 virtual desktops; I typically have browsers in 6-7 of them for various in-progress tasks. That's somewhere between 6 and 14 browser windows (I can fit two side by side on my screen), with multiple tabs in each. Finding things is easy. Even ignoring the per-task categorization by desktop, Firefox lets you search all your tab titles/urls: just type "% " in the URL bar followed by your search string. If I'm looking for something specific, this is the simplest way to find it.