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My personal experience was that neither Firefox’s pioneering alternative to what Chrome announces here (tab groups), nor tree style tab extension were convenien

My personal experience was that neither Firefox’s pioneering alternative to what Chrome announces here (tab groups), nor tree style tab extension were convenient enough to use. With tab groups you obviously very quickly neglect trying to group newly created tabs and even if you, it’s not very helpful (except for sand boxing - that’s a nice thing to have). Tree style tabs were just a pain in the ass, it was constantly causing my tabs to jump around when I opened them, it seems like it was trying to reorder my tabs in the horizontal tab bar so that the ordering would mimic the tree leaves while the vertical tab bar was just useless to me, maybe simply because I could not get used this layout. I ended up using stash tab extension, as I often have to concentrate on researching one specific thing and while I do that I don’t need any other unrelated tabs to be open, this allows me to retroactiavely group all opened tabs into different stacks and name each of them and then just stash them away like you’d do with git stash, they don’t take up any memory after that and I can return to the entire stash at some point by clicking a single button that will effectively do a git pop of the stash.

nneonneo 6y ago
I just killed the horizontal tab bar after installing Tree Style Tabs (it's a quick trip to edit a profile CSS file and is quite well documented on the TST github page). The tree tabs are really all you need. Tree tabs work just as well with 5 tabs as they do with 50 (or, heck, even 500). I use them as a mix of short-term bookmarks, active browsing contexts, trains of thoughts, etc. It has quite fundamentally changed the way I browse around the Internet, and I can simply never use Chrome or Safari the same way again. I often similarly need to research some particular thing a bunch. With tree tabs, one parent tab contains the main context, and every time I open a new link in a new window it will appear as a child. In the end it's a big tree of tabs with one root tab, with the tree giving a nice hierarchical organization based around where the tabs came from. TST gives you the ability to group multiple tabs together ("stacking" them), and then you can rename the group and collapse it (or, for more permanence, bookmark the entire tree).

nneonneo 6y ago

I just killed the horizontal tab bar after installing Tree Style Tabs (it's a quick trip to edit a profile CSS file and is quite well documented on the TST github page). The tree tabs are really all you need. Tree tabs work just as well with 5 tabs as they do with 50 (or, heck, even 500). I use them as a mix of short-term bookmarks, active browsing contexts, trains of thoughts, etc. It has quite fundamentally changed the way I browse around the Internet, and I can simply never use Chrome or Safari the same way again. I often similarly need to research some particular thing a bunch. With tree tabs, one parent tab contains the main context, and every time I open a new link in a new window it will appear as a child. In the end it's a big tree of tabs with one root tab, with the tree giving a nice hierarchical organization based around where the tabs came from. TST gives you the ability to group multiple tabs together ("stacking" them), and then you can rename the group and collapse it (or, for more permanence, bookmark the entire tree).