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Wow, you really get it. You really hit the nail of the head about bookmarks. They are almost always completely forgotten. Tabs, however, are constantly groomed

by bronz 12y ago

Wow, you really get it. You really hit the nail of the head about bookmarks. They are almost always completely forgotten. Tabs, however, are constantly groomed and sifted through and pruned. If I could have my way, I would take Safari with all it's nice features like sexy tab scrolling and tab view (these are major assets to the tab junkie) and reshape it into something entirely tab based. Instead of bookmarks, you would have long lived tabs. And all the tabs are categorized in whatever way the user wants. And tab view would actually allow you to manipulate tabs while viewing them (it is a fucking mystery to me why you can't do that). So it would be like having all your bookmarks and tabs mixed into one pot. And of course, bullet proof tab recovery features without the cloud. Jesus, maybe I should just write a Safari extension.

alexvoda 12y ago
Brothers, I found you! Finally people who use tabbed browsing like me. Is there some forum for advanced tab browsing users? If not maybe we should make one. For me windows are tasks/areas of research. A task can last minutes, hours, days or even weeks. Inside windows there are groups and each group has a starting point(usually a google search) from which many tabs are generated and then checked individually. And than each tab grows its own history by following hyperlinks. And when a task is completed, the resulting pages are bookmarked into a folder.
- Zancarius 12y ago
  > Is there some forum for advanced tab browsing users? Not that I'm aware of, but there might be a support group. ;) Joking aside, it's curious how much flak you can take from suggesting that you make extensive use of a feature that's built into the browser... everyone I know thinks I'm a bit odd when they see my Firefox sessions. > For me windows are tasks/areas of research. A task can last minutes, hours, days or even weeks. I really like this perspective, because it's deeply reflective of my usage patterns. For example, when I was learning Golang, I had a session opened exclusively for that, with all the respective documentation, some blogs, tutorials, and various odds and ends. Over time it evolved, certainly, but those tabs remained open for the duration that I needed them. It doesn't matter if it's a day, two days, or two months. I have one Firefox profile configured to use Session Manager with various saved sessions based on whatever I'm working on. So, whenever I need a major context switch, I save the current session, then switch to the one I need. It allows me to pick up where I left off--even if there's 300+ tabs in that particular list. Though, I'm pretty bad about clearing some of those tabs out--oftentimes it's because I want to revisit whatever I was researching, even if it takes several months! It sounds like you and I do about the same thing in that regard! Although, I've yet to learn the bookmarking technique. ;) Presently, for my generic browsing, I just dump everything into a dated folder. Everything else of interest that I don't want to inadvertently lose gets shunted into my unsorted bookmarks without a date under the pretense that I'll eventually categorize it (which I usually do). I think I'll have to try the categorization for tasks that are complete rather than simply bookmarking tabs individually and massacring the rest.
  - alexvoda 12y ago
    One of the extensions that is priceless to haw I do this is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-handler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-... The ability to shift select tabs and bookmark, move to a new window or close is amazing.
Zancarius 12y ago
> Tabs, however, are constantly groomed and sifted through and pruned. Exactly this (apologies for the 2-day delay!). This is exactly why I keep so many tabs open, because I can filter them and use them as a living browsing session. It also provides me with some amusement when I look through tabs opened weeks (sometimes months?) prior, because it gives me a snapshot into what I was thinking of/looking for during that window of history. I'm really glad to find others who share my usage patterns. I don't feel so weird. :D Aside: Just a week or two ago, I archived a bunch of tabs from a generic browsing session and I think the total came close to 980. Eeeek!

by bronz 12y ago

alexvoda 12y ago

Brothers, I found you! Finally people who use tabbed browsing like me. Is there some forum for advanced tab browsing users? If not maybe we should make one. For me windows are tasks/areas of research. A task can last minutes, hours, days or even weeks. Inside windows there are groups and each group has a starting point(usually a google search) from which many tabs are generated and then checked individually. And than each tab grows its own history by following hyperlinks. And when a task is completed, the resulting pages are bookmarked into a folder.

Zancarius 12y ago
> Is there some forum for advanced tab browsing users? Not that I'm aware of, but there might be a support group. ;) Joking aside, it's curious how much flak you can take from suggesting that you make extensive use of a feature that's built into the browser... everyone I know thinks I'm a bit odd when they see my Firefox sessions. > For me windows are tasks/areas of research. A task can last minutes, hours, days or even weeks. I really like this perspective, because it's deeply reflective of my usage patterns. For example, when I was learning Golang, I had a session opened exclusively for that, with all the respective documentation, some blogs, tutorials, and various odds and ends. Over time it evolved, certainly, but those tabs remained open for the duration that I needed them. It doesn't matter if it's a day, two days, or two months. I have one Firefox profile configured to use Session Manager with various saved sessions based on whatever I'm working on. So, whenever I need a major context switch, I save the current session, then switch to the one I need. It allows me to pick up where I left off--even if there's 300+ tabs in that particular list. Though, I'm pretty bad about clearing some of those tabs out--oftentimes it's because I want to revisit whatever I was researching, even if it takes several months! It sounds like you and I do about the same thing in that regard! Although, I've yet to learn the bookmarking technique. ;) Presently, for my generic browsing, I just dump everything into a dated folder. Everything else of interest that I don't want to inadvertently lose gets shunted into my unsorted bookmarks without a date under the pretense that I'll eventually categorize it (which I usually do). I think I'll have to try the categorization for tasks that are complete rather than simply bookmarking tabs individually and massacring the rest.
- alexvoda 12y ago
  One of the extensions that is priceless to haw I do this is https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-handler/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multiple-tab-... The ability to shift select tabs and bookmark, move to a new window or close is amazing.

Zancarius 12y ago

> Tabs, however, are constantly groomed and sifted through and pruned. Exactly this (apologies for the 2-day delay!). This is exactly why I keep so many tabs open, because I can filter them and use them as a living browsing session. It also provides me with some amusement when I look through tabs opened weeks (sometimes months?) prior, because it gives me a snapshot into what I was thinking of/looking for during that window of history. I'm really glad to find others who share my usage patterns. I don't feel so weird. :D Aside: Just a week or two ago, I archived a bunch of tabs from a generic browsing session and I think the total came close to 980. Eeeek!