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The more enhancements I see browser vendors making to tabs, the more I think they’re reinventing bookmarks/favorites. Safari introduced “tab groups” a while ba

The more enhancements I see browser vendors making to tabs, the more I think they’re reinventing bookmarks/favorites. Safari introduced “tab groups” a while back, which to me is an insane mess of complexity. When I think about it though they’re just folders and each tab is a bookmark/favorite. The vertical tabs in Brave remind me of bookmarks/favorites too.

prng2021 3y ago
I don’t follow. Tabs are nothing like favorites. You go to a favorite and open links within it in new tabs. Eventually the tabs will be closed and you’ll often never visit those links ever again, as opposed to a favorite. As for tab groups, I could never get used to them, but I do use vertical tabs and find them quite useful.
viktree 3y ago
This is one feature I like in the Arc Browser. Persistent tabs are bookmarks, and bookmarks are just as accessible as regular tabs.
- Ancapistani 3y ago
  Not exactly. Arc has "pinned tabs", but not "bookmarks". While they can be used similarly, I find it quite annoying to use the search to pull something out of my "bookmarks", only to have it open a directory hierarchy eight levels deep when I switch to it. Likewise, if I navigate away from the page on the pinned tab, I lose my "bookmark".
Tagbert 3y ago
For me, tab groups are nothing like bookmarks. Tab groups are a way of managing already open tabs in related group; showing and hiding groups as you need them. I use a similar tool in Firefox and I always have tabs related to about 4-5 projects open at once. I use the tab group tool to switch between the tabs by project so I only need to deal with 10-15 tabs at once. These are tabs that I don’t want to close as they have context and sometimes ongoing edits. It’s a bit like having multiple windows each with tabs but this keeps it together in one window and makes it easier to manager. Without this, I would be facing 50-75 tabs and trying to figure out which ones were related to the project I needed to work on at the current time.
- Torwald 3y ago
  Care to share the Ff plug-in you use? Would you recommend it or is another tool in that space better?
  - Tagbert 3y ago
    Panorama Tab Groups There are some others, but I haven't tried a wide range of them. Panorama does what I need.
imtringued 3y ago
I have so many bookmarks which I have never revisited ever. What counts isn't some abstract storage concept but the UI and UX to manage them. Bookmarks are this drawer in your basement where you have to actively spend energy to find them. Tree tabs are self organizing. How they are are stored is irrelevant to me.

prng2021 3y ago

I don’t follow. Tabs are nothing like favorites. You go to a favorite and open links within it in new tabs. Eventually the tabs will be closed and you’ll often never visit those links ever again, as opposed to a favorite. As for tab groups, I could never get used to them, but I do use vertical tabs and find them quite useful.

viktree 3y ago

This is one feature I like in the Arc Browser. Persistent tabs are bookmarks, and bookmarks are just as accessible as regular tabs.

Ancapistani 3y ago
Not exactly. Arc has "pinned tabs", but not "bookmarks". While they can be used similarly, I find it quite annoying to use the search to pull something out of my "bookmarks", only to have it open a directory hierarchy eight levels deep when I switch to it. Likewise, if I navigate away from the page on the pinned tab, I lose my "bookmark".

Tagbert 3y ago

For me, tab groups are nothing like bookmarks. Tab groups are a way of managing already open tabs in related group; showing and hiding groups as you need them. I use a similar tool in Firefox and I always have tabs related to about 4-5 projects open at once. I use the tab group tool to switch between the tabs by project so I only need to deal with 10-15 tabs at once. These are tabs that I don’t want to close as they have context and sometimes ongoing edits. It’s a bit like having multiple windows each with tabs but this keeps it together in one window and makes it easier to manager. Without this, I would be facing 50-75 tabs and trying to figure out which ones were related to the project I needed to work on at the current time.

Torwald 3y ago
Care to share the Ff plug-in you use? Would you recommend it or is another tool in that space better?
- Tagbert 3y ago
  Panorama Tab Groups There are some others, but I haven't tried a wide range of them. Panorama does what I need.

imtringued 3y ago

I have so many bookmarks which I have never revisited ever. What counts isn't some abstract storage concept but the UI and UX to manage them. Bookmarks are this drawer in your basement where you have to actively spend energy to find them. Tree tabs are self organizing. How they are are stored is irrelevant to me.