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I have the feeling that in the beginning, the idea of preserving your tabs was precisely because you wanted them to be prerendered. Then it became a way to have
by ithkuil 15y ago
I have the feeling that in the beginning, the idea of preserving your tabs was precisely because you wanted them to be prerendered. Then it became a way to have some sort of "front line bookmarking"
- idleloops 15y agoExactly, I think they caught on as they are a more intuitive UI than delving into your history or using bookmarks. When rendered repeatedly until you read them (perhaps weeks after,) they make for very expensive bookmarks. Tabs/history/bookmarks I believe are the most pressing area for UI development in the browser. A lot of this management could be pushed into the OS shell. If you could manage Windows easier - you wouldn't need tabs. Tab behaviour is so inconsistent across browsers, apps and different OSs it hurts.
- grayrest 15y agoI don't know about the Opera version of tabs but in Mozilla 0.9.3 I used tabs because the new window delay was ~2s due to excessive XUL overlays and I installed the save tabs extension because the browser crashed every 2 hours or so and I wanted to keep my tabs.
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoI feel like browsers have failed to innovate on bookmarks. The problem with bookmarks is that once you have too many they become unweildy. There should be a separate between "stuff I visit a lot" and "this great article about Early Modern Spain that I want to read later". I'm glad that Safari is delving into the latter a bit now.
- m_for_monkey 15y agoOpera's Speed Dial is nice, too.
- gcp 15y agoUnsorted bookmarks + Awesomebar in Firefox works great for that. It's search-inside-bookmarks is great.