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In my case, I found that the whole concept of managing tabs just becomes moot at some point. The only extension I use to deal with the load of tabs I have open
by awll 6y ago
In my case, I found that the whole concept of managing tabs just becomes moot at some point. The only extension I use to deal with the load of tabs I have open is funnily enough vimium.
When you press <shift-T> the omnibar opens and you can search your open tabs and immediately jump to them, all without leaving your keyboard. This is way quicker than manually going through your tab list and searching for the right one.
- teekert 6y agoMy way of dealing with it is closing the browser and reopening it. It feels like taking a deep breath and starting over, stockpiling useless things...
- LeartS 6y agoSeriously, I don't understand the discussion here. It's a solved problem, and the solution is what vimium does: press a key that opens a tab searcher and digit a bunch of characters related to the tab you want to go to, and you get presented with an ever-shrinking list of tabs (favicon, title, hostname, ..) that match your search as you type. Enter, maybe one or two arrows movements to select the final choice. If you have 2 tabs or 2000 tabs it doesn't matter, going to a tab it's always a sub-second operation. It is kinda native, at least in firefox: CTRL+L opens the address bar and on there you can search between open tabs. In my opinion it just needs some small UI improvements because at the moment the visual indicators to differentiate between open tab, search, history item, favorite in the results are not clear enough and the results are (or appear) mixed.
- Kliment 6y agoTry this: ctrl-L, type % type space type search term. It restricts the search to open tabs only.
- Timpy 6y agoI'm a vim loyalist, I use Surfingkeys for Firefox, but I have to say that for a lot of non-power users I understand the GUI aspect helps keep their mental model of what's happening on their machine. This problem can have many equally acceptable solutions depending on the user.
- riezebos 6y agoI think the "problem" is not always that you know which tab you want and just want to open it. Sometimes the "problem" is getting an overview over all your open tabs, a tab searcher wouldn't help too much there.