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Oh, yes, SO's hot network questions is a hardcore distraction for me, too. Even for things I really don't care about! Like all those workplace drama questions (

Oh, yes, SO's hot network questions is a hardcore distraction for me, too. Even for things I really don't care about! Like all those workplace drama questions (do so many people really think going to HR is going to do them any good at all?). The extension you linked is a very interesting concept, something I hadn't thought about using before. But I like the idea of paying a little bit of thought up front to help keep things from exploding down the line. Thanks!

jgtrosh 9y ago
The extremist view in this sense is that tabs in general are a bad model for navigation. If all the pages you choose to visit are first-level citizens in your environment (windows) then you think about them more actively. A browser like https://surf.suckless.org https://surf.suckless.org simplifies the browser abstraction well in these regards. I have found it is nearly impossible to get common browsers to work without tabs. This kind of endeavour probably begets a correct window manager like https://i3wm.org https://i3wm.org
- kqr 9y ago
  I strongly agree. I had to stop using Surf because of its ancient rendering engine which butchers a lot of the sensible parts of the modern web, but I do miss the tabless part of it. Edit: Also because it does not have Pentadactyl. My dream browser would be tabless and with sensible and powerful Vim bindings. Ideally built on an engine of Common Lisp too...
  - jgtrosh 9y ago
    Have you looked at luakit? It's also based on webkit2gtk but it's extensible with Lua; I love the simplicity of suckless tools but when a functionality that seems good must be patched in it rarely ends well. Also regarding Vi keybindings check out vimb maybe?
baud147258 9y ago
SO's hot network questions was so bad that I enabled my ad-blocker on SO and added a custom rule to hide that part of the page. At least now when I go to find an answer on SO without falling in a 30-60 min rabbit hole.
- pimlottc 9y ago
  Please post this rule, it would be very helpful. What’s frustrating is that this has been brought up as an issue on StackExchange and rejected as WONTFIX.
  - baud147258 9y ago
    I'm using uBlock origin. The rule is: stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions I've used the selector tool of uBlock to do it. Edit: more on this: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/222721 https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/222721. Linked in one of the answer is an extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidebaroverflow/lhieihmjhlbhpjkamdjfjldcapnmhddp?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidebaroverflow/lh... There are also other solutions on that page.
  - Roujo 9y ago
    These rules work for me, using uBlock Origin: stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions stackoverflow.com###feed-link
icc97 9y ago
> Like all those workplace drama questions They're like a soap opera for geeks
- failrate 9y ago
  Omg, do you remember the milk boiled in electric kettle incident? That's the only time I've seen something get posted to Workplace and then have follow up questions go to (iirc) Interpersonal Skills and then Physics.

jgtrosh 9y ago

The extremist view in this sense is that tabs in general are a bad model for navigation. If all the pages you choose to visit are first-level citizens in your environment (windows) then you think about them more actively. A browser like https://surf.suckless.org https://surf.suckless.org simplifies the browser abstraction well in these regards. I have found it is nearly impossible to get common browsers to work without tabs. This kind of endeavour probably begets a correct window manager like https://i3wm.org https://i3wm.org

kqr 9y ago
I strongly agree. I had to stop using Surf because of its ancient rendering engine which butchers a lot of the sensible parts of the modern web, but I do miss the tabless part of it. Edit: Also because it does not have Pentadactyl. My dream browser would be tabless and with sensible and powerful Vim bindings. Ideally built on an engine of Common Lisp too...
- jgtrosh 9y ago
  Have you looked at luakit? It's also based on webkit2gtk but it's extensible with Lua; I love the simplicity of suckless tools but when a functionality that seems good must be patched in it rarely ends well. Also regarding Vi keybindings check out vimb maybe?

baud147258 9y ago

SO's hot network questions was so bad that I enabled my ad-blocker on SO and added a custom rule to hide that part of the page. At least now when I go to find an answer on SO without falling in a 30-60 min rabbit hole.

pimlottc 9y ago
Please post this rule, it would be very helpful. What’s frustrating is that this has been brought up as an issue on StackExchange and rejected as WONTFIX.
- baud147258 9y ago
  I'm using uBlock origin. The rule is: stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions I've used the selector tool of uBlock to do it. Edit: more on this: https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/222721 https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/222721. Linked in one of the answer is an extension: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidebaroverflow/lhieihmjhlbhpjkamdjfjldcapnmhddp?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidebaroverflow/lh... There are also other solutions on that page.
- Roujo 9y ago
  These rules work for me, using uBlock Origin: stackoverflow.com###hot-network-questions stackoverflow.com###feed-link

icc97 9y ago

> Like all those workplace drama questions They're like a soap opera for geeks

failrate 9y ago
Omg, do you remember the milk boiled in electric kettle incident? That's the only time I've seen something get posted to Workplace and then have follow up questions go to (iirc) Interpersonal Skills and then Physics.