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> RAM: Mighty allowed users to open hundreds of tabs without being worried that their RAM would be consumed. But my sense is this was not a killer feature. The
by yamtaddle 4y ago
> RAM: Mighty allowed users to open hundreds of tabs without being worried that their RAM would be consumed. But my sense is this was not a killer feature. The benefit simply isn’t massive: the alternative is to close tabs and “clean things up”. Many people probably do this anyway because it’s visually hard to have hundreds of tabs open, so users end up closing tabs even with infinite RAM. This is evident in the data: when we gave users 32gb of RAM, 90+% of them didn’t go beyond 16. We did have the opportunity to provide users with a whole new interface of tab management – one in which tabs never have to be closed and hundreds of tabs are visually manageable. Maybe this would have been a smash hit, it’s hard to be sure.
What I want is for the address bar to give me a really quick way to jump to existing tabs, if I start to type in the address of one I already have open. The entire reason my tabs get out of control is that at some point I get enough open that I start to lose track of what's there, and repeat myself. End up with like 5 AWS tabs, only one of which I'm actually using, stuff like that. So finally I just bookmark the whole set ("just in case"—I've not once looked back at these, in almost a decade of working this way, though I bet there's some great shit in there) and start over.
Apple's "tab groups" approach being a solution, but the trouble is I forget to switch to the correct group for a given site and end up using a single jumbled-up session anyway. It needs better (more automatic, probably) UI.
- jamiek88 4y agoYes tab groups has helped a lot and is nearly there but not quite. I try and be disciplined but like you end up having to manually stop myself and drag tabs back to the ‘proper’ group.
- jemmyw 4y agoThe tab groups extension for Chrome works well for automating moving tabs to the correct group. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-groups-extension/nplimhmoanghlebhdiboeellhgmgommi https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-groups-extensi...
- yamtaddle 4y agoJust manual settings I could use to say "always open this site in tab group X" or "prompt to move this site to tab groups Y or Z if I open it somewhere else (but with the option not to)" would probably make it usable-enough for me.
- Jarwain 4y ago> What I want is for the address bar to give me a really quick way to jump to existing tabs, if I start to type in the address of one I already have open. Chrome's been doing this recently and I absolutely love it
- mmcclure 4y agoOthers mentioned Chrome doing this, but it never really seemed to work reliably for me. This actually came up in a thread the other day, so feels weird to be talking about it again, but I've been playing with Arc[1] lately. Took me a while to get used to how they treat tabs (almost more like bookmarks) but I've enjoyed it. Squirrel the ones I want to truly keep around into folders ("To Review", "Some Project"), but all the randomly opened tabs automatically get closed after a specified time period (default 24 hours, I have mine set to a week). When I hit cmd+t I can _reasonably_ often get to the right tab I've already got open. I have a feeling the honeymoon will end when they start trying to figure out a monetization strategy, but so far I'm rooting for them. [1] https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/
- joncfoo 4y agoIn Firefox, type % followed by a space and you can then search tab titles and jump to a tab.
- mef 4y agocmd+shift+A in Chrome for quick tab search