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My "browser stack" is based around Microsoft Edge. - Vertical tabs are native and function perfectly. - It sleeps inactive tabs to save RAM. - It has the Wor
by extr 4y ago
My "browser stack" is based around Microsoft Edge.
- Vertical tabs are native and function perfectly.
- It sleeps inactive tabs to save RAM.
- It has the Workspaces [1] feature, basically creating cloud-saved tab groups. This only works when your account is tied to Azure for now (so only at work), but that's the only time I use it, so it's all good. Tons of extensions try to do this, but it's nice not to have to use one.
- This hidden gem of a browser extension: Auto-Group Tabs [2]. Lots of extensions claim to do this, few do it well. It supports regex and pops tabs into groups extremely quickly/smoothly. It feels native. Combined with the vertical tabs feature, you get nice, easy to read, collapsable groups. The developer is super responsive and awesome.
Honorable mention extensions I've tried but ultimately don't use anymore:
- Tab Xpert [3] It's a full-featured tab session manager, one of the better ones I've tried. Very stable with an active, very responsive developer. Probably great for some people, but I don't end up having so so many tabs that I find it necessary.
- Clutter Free [4] Keeps you from opening more than one of the same URL. Would be really useful, but I found it too disruptive to use daily. You don't realize how many SPAs with single URLs there are until you start using something like that.
I also recently got access to Arc Browser [5]. It seems great and I like a lot of the design decisions. Haven't moved over to using it by default yet though.
[1] https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/introducing-workspaces-in-edge-new-feature/td-p/2263507 https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/discussions/introduci...
[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-group-tabs/danncghahncanipdoajmakdbeaophenb?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/auto-group-tabs/da...
[3] https://tabxpert.com/ https://tabxpert.com/
[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clutter-free-prevent-dupl/iipjdmnoigaobkamfhnojmglcdbnfaaf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clutter-free-preve...
[5] https://arc.net/ https://arc.net/