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1404 tabs open here. Tab bar is indeed messy, I use Tree Style Tab in the side bar. And dozens of categorized windows, each with a name. I don't need an alter

by Luc 5y ago

1404 tabs open here. Tab bar is indeed messy, I use Tree Style Tab in the side bar. And dozens of categorized windows, each with a name. I don't need an alternative or better way. It works great and I hope this use case remains supported.

MrDresden 5y ago
I'd be fascinated to hear how it works in practice to have that many tabs active? Are you able to digest them in any reasonable fashion or even find content later on when you need it? I can't relate to that amount of tabs, but do have an upper limit of around 100 at which time I start actively trimming them down (either dismiss as having lost importance, digest or bookmark for later digestion). My bookmarks steadily grow, but are categorized, tagged and labelled in such a way that I can easily find and digest certain types of urls later on when I feel ready for it. They do grow faster then I can consume them though.
- Luc 5y ago
  I find it much easier to use than bookmarks. It's a great for research, when you have disparate bits of information spread out over dozens of sources. I close tabs as they become irrelevant. A window may have a lifetime of a few days to about a year. When I'm done I save its state using Tab Session Manager. By that time it's a 'best of' on that subject. I also used 'New Tab Suspender' and 'Total Suspender' add-ons for a while in an attempt to reduce memory usage, but stopped due to Firefox crashes I assumed were caused by them.
- exikyut 5y ago
  You had me at "My bookmarks are ... tabbed". Please tell me I'm missing something and that there's a way to do this in Chrome so I can access the tags on my phone???? I have about 30,000 unsorted bookmarks. Yes. Because I need tagging.
  - MrDresden 5y ago
    I'm not sure about Chrome, as I use Firefox. Sadly Firefox does (for some peculiar reason) not give acceess to the tags on the mobile browser. So I navigate by folder hiearchy on mobile; read > professional > development > android > db for instance.
    - exikyut 5y ago
      > Sadly Firefox does (for some peculiar reason) not give acceess to the tags on the mobile browser. Oh. TIL. That's... a bit of an unexpected shortcoming I wasn't aware of. Hmm... (My Chrome session is big enough that I don't quite have the RAM to play with Firefox, which I was coincidentally last playing with just as the WebExtensions update kicked in and broke my UI setup. Welp.)
    - dredmorbius 5y ago
      Mobile Firefox (Fennec) doesn't support tags, but the text descriptions are searchable when entering URLs, so you can key off of those. Effectively full-text-search tagging.
hansel_der 5y ago
same same for 20+years i just don't have the time and energy to manage bookmarks it seems. web content also feels kinda temporary so i guess that is a good compromise. sadly since quantum there is no more tabkit and the alternatives have a LOT less vertical density and the tabgroup-features are not on par.

by Luc 5y ago

MrDresden 5y ago

I'd be fascinated to hear how it works in practice to have that many tabs active? Are you able to digest them in any reasonable fashion or even find content later on when you need it? I can't relate to that amount of tabs, but do have an upper limit of around 100 at which time I start actively trimming them down (either dismiss as having lost importance, digest or bookmark for later digestion). My bookmarks steadily grow, but are categorized, tagged and labelled in such a way that I can easily find and digest certain types of urls later on when I feel ready for it. They do grow faster then I can consume them though.

Luc 5y ago
I find it much easier to use than bookmarks. It's a great for research, when you have disparate bits of information spread out over dozens of sources. I close tabs as they become irrelevant. A window may have a lifetime of a few days to about a year. When I'm done I save its state using Tab Session Manager. By that time it's a 'best of' on that subject. I also used 'New Tab Suspender' and 'Total Suspender' add-ons for a while in an attempt to reduce memory usage, but stopped due to Firefox crashes I assumed were caused by them.
exikyut 5y ago
You had me at "My bookmarks are ... tabbed". Please tell me I'm missing something and that there's a way to do this in Chrome so I can access the tags on my phone???? I have about 30,000 unsorted bookmarks. Yes. Because I need tagging.
- MrDresden 5y ago
  I'm not sure about Chrome, as I use Firefox. Sadly Firefox does (for some peculiar reason) not give acceess to the tags on the mobile browser. So I navigate by folder hiearchy on mobile; read > professional > development > android > db for instance.
  - exikyut 5y ago
    > Sadly Firefox does (for some peculiar reason) not give acceess to the tags on the mobile browser. Oh. TIL. That's... a bit of an unexpected shortcoming I wasn't aware of. Hmm... (My Chrome session is big enough that I don't quite have the RAM to play with Firefox, which I was coincidentally last playing with just as the WebExtensions update kicked in and broke my UI setup. Welp.)
  - dredmorbius 5y ago
    Mobile Firefox (Fennec) doesn't support tags, but the text descriptions are searchable when entering URLs, so you can key off of those. Effectively full-text-search tagging.

hansel_der 5y ago

same same for 20+years i just don't have the time and energy to manage bookmarks it seems. web content also feels kinda temporary so i guess that is a good compromise. sadly since quantum there is no more tabkit and the alternatives have a LOT less vertical density and the tabgroup-features are not on par.