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Tabs, bookmarks and browser history should be merged into a single interface. The difference between them is just quantitative.

currysausage 6y ago
Reminds me of this Firefox concept: http://web.archive.org/web/20090801232011/informationarchitects.jp/designing-firefox-32/ http://web.archive.org/web/20090801232011/informationarchite...
- rakoo 6y ago
  I feel like there's some paradigm we haven't reached yet. As the parent said, bookmarks and history are just 2 different views of the same underlying data and tabs provide an isolation of the context If we go back to the root of what the web is, we have a graph where nodes are documents and edges are a user clicking on a link at a given time, and the user wants to keep a few of the documents in the current context. So not only is there's a graph, which is not easy to represent and navigate, but the edges depend on time. Maybe some VR thing can help us see something new here
  - generalizations 6y ago
    We could generalize further and say that's what the entire window manager of an OS represents. Though, there's a difference between 'currently loaded' and just the address, and for less-than-high-end computers, that difference can mean a lot. That graph also contains a lot of noise - e.g. documents that aren't needed. I wonder if VR would help, by letting us see more, or if that better paradigm could also be implemented on 2D screens. There's already various graph visualization tools. But the tricky part would be wrapping that up into something useful - like a tree graph vs. tree style tabs. And if this would be more than 1-dimensional, like TST, then it would likely have to be a full page.
lmkg 6y ago
I believe this as well. That's the reason why I have a triple-digit number tabs open, and haven't bookmarked a site in twenty years. I much prefer having only a single interface to manage, which for me is tabs. I suspect many others with a similar tab-count are the same.
Noumenon72 6y ago
If that were true then Firefox's autocomplete in the address bar would be all I needed, but in fact I regularly use the different Awesome Bar shortcuts to search either currently open tabs (%) or bookmarks (*). In fact the lack of this feature is one of the things I don't like about Chrome.

currysausage 6y ago

Reminds me of this Firefox concept: http://web.archive.org/web/20090801232011/informationarchitects.jp/designing-firefox-32/ http://web.archive.org/web/20090801232011/informationarchite...

rakoo 6y ago
I feel like there's some paradigm we haven't reached yet. As the parent said, bookmarks and history are just 2 different views of the same underlying data and tabs provide an isolation of the context If we go back to the root of what the web is, we have a graph where nodes are documents and edges are a user clicking on a link at a given time, and the user wants to keep a few of the documents in the current context. So not only is there's a graph, which is not easy to represent and navigate, but the edges depend on time. Maybe some VR thing can help us see something new here
- generalizations 6y ago
  We could generalize further and say that's what the entire window manager of an OS represents. Though, there's a difference between 'currently loaded' and just the address, and for less-than-high-end computers, that difference can mean a lot. That graph also contains a lot of noise - e.g. documents that aren't needed. I wonder if VR would help, by letting us see more, or if that better paradigm could also be implemented on 2D screens. There's already various graph visualization tools. But the tricky part would be wrapping that up into something useful - like a tree graph vs. tree style tabs. And if this would be more than 1-dimensional, like TST, then it would likely have to be a full page.

lmkg 6y ago

I believe this as well. That's the reason why I have a triple-digit number tabs open, and haven't bookmarked a site in twenty years. I much prefer having only a single interface to manage, which for me is tabs. I suspect many others with a similar tab-count are the same.

Noumenon72 6y ago

If that were true then Firefox's autocomplete in the address bar would be all I needed, but in fact I regularly use the different Awesome Bar shortcuts to search either currently open tabs (%) or bookmarks (*). In fact the lack of this feature is one of the things I don't like about Chrome.