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In my experience, Chrome has never been the browser for people who want to open more than a handful of tabs and keep them around for sometime. It becomes sluggi
by newscracker 6y ago
In my experience, Chrome has never been the browser for people who want to open more than a handful of tabs and keep them around for sometime. It becomes sluggish and makes the whole system sluggish. I see similar issues with the new Microsoft Edge (based on Chromium) and Brave (also based on Chromium, but somewhat better).
“Tab collectors” is a derogatory term to describe anyone who needs to do some research on some topic and needs to open up tabs, links from them and figure out the topic(s) they’re dealing with. Yes, this can devolve into a collector situation if not managed well. But not everyone who has a need for it has to be insulted this way, especially from technical users, where daily work can easily turn into opening several tabs and windows at once.
That Google Chrome isn’t designed or optimized for heavy usage will not go away just because they throw a new feature to group tabs. You may be able to group them, but will the browser be any less sluggish with the addition of this feature? That’s what I’m interested to know. For users of a few tabs, tab groups may not be as useful since they’d already be doing the grouping with windows. For users with many tabs, tab groups isn’t going to be useful as long as the browser can’t handle many tabs.
- kwanbix 6y agoI have tried it already and it is of no use for me. I want a way to group tabs in different Chrome windows and assign the Chrome window a name, so that I can have: Work Window, News Window, Personal Window, Communication Window, etc. and in each of the windows the related tabs. Today I can do that, but each "chrome-window-icon" shows with the name of the tab that is open, and not the "chorme-window-name" (Work window, etc). In Windows 10 I used an app to rename the instances of Chrome but I cannot find a solution under Linux (Ubuntu).
- snazz 6y agoChromium can easily handle five hundred or more tabs on my machine. It's certainly a RAM hog, but that's to be expected. Maybe it's swapping on your machine? Firefox does a slightly better job when you have more than a thousand tabs open, but they both benefit from a tab suspender extension.