Why people like 50 tabs at once. I can't understand.
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They don't know how bookmarks work.
Bookmarks are great if I remember what I want is there. Usually bookmarking is like putting a piece of paper in cabinet that I will never open.. A tab is leaving the paper on my desk for me that I will rediscover.
I used to feel the same way. But recently, I just don't have time to 'finish' each tab/section. When I was younger with more time, I could.
For example, the first section of my browser is several self hosted apps I'm currently implementing. So, I don't want to lose the relevant forum posts/documentation.
The second section is some articles I couldn't finish reading.
The third section is something I'm researching for my work.
Fourth are media tabs, some YouTube videos I haven't finished, a music tab, etc etc
So basically, if I had time to read the articles, one section closed. Or finished my implementation, etc.
The hard part this is this is every week. Always new projects, work or personal. Always new studies to read. Always new vids. You get the point.
to hide thier porn tabs.
adhd. I'm considering making at alert for when my browser uses so much tabs that I'm almost out of RAM
The only way to keep my ADHD at bay when I'm on the computer is to be radical with my tabs. Don't need it in the next hour? That's definitely a bookmark, not a tab. I configured my browser to not save tabs between sessions so I always start clean. I'd long be dead otherwise, suffocated by my own browser tabs.
I storing YouTube links that I would watch next time
Text document
"Save to watch later"
Bookmark
There are options
You clearly do not have ADHD. Those are where things go to be forgotten forever.
Yeah, that is just asking for data to be forgotten. The functional difference is:
You have your browser with let's say 30 tabs. You can't forget what you need to, because they are always open. So to catch up, you have to close out your tabs or lose everything.
Compared to adding something to a list, which requires you to manually go back and remember what you needed to do. But if you have 100 things to every week, and those constantly get added on, you will always lose data to return to if you're not actively tracking it, hence the tabs.
It's a very simple concept. A lot of people have a lot less time to do all the things they need to during the week. People on their computers all day, or with less of a workload, can't comprehend this without opening their mind to a different perspective.
I know, because I used to feel the same way about people who had 20+ tabs. But at that point in time, the thought of not having enough time to get to everything and adding 50+ things to do every week (meaning 200 - 400 new tabs every week) was foreign to me, and your suggestion makes it quite literally impossible without extra work involved, if you care to actually complete everything you wanted.
Text document - very lack of quality features Others - just place where I would forget them forever
So youll just leave them where you would forget them forever instead?
What's the functional difference between a tab bar and bookmark bar for this specific purpose other than the former taking more resources?
Genuine question because I cannot comprehend
I can't tell if you're serious or not. A bookmark bar will never be able to easily contain everything you need. It requires manual review (expanding the bar, manually browsing every bookmark and re-opening tabs [and you're suggesting to bookmark 50+ pages every week.. impossible]). So not only are you implying it would be better to add 2 - 3 additional steps to the workflow, but also you are missing the very functional fact that a bookmark bar is a lot less accessible than a scrollable tab bar with an instantly opened window with what you were working on.
Tabs also remember where you are on the page. I read long studies, and implement complex projects. Bookmarks will re-open every tab at the start of the page, not word 600. There are just too many reasons as to why tabs are more functional than bookmarks and saving data to lists. A big part of it is the size of the persons workflow, someone with a smaller workflow may not be able to see how impactful those additional steps in the process are.
ive seen this in opera, and instantly ran into the options to disable it. i donno how many tab you guys have in the browser, but may god forgive you all for using the browser wrong.
Maybe you only have 300 or less but I typically have several windows open.
whoa. mozilla doing something the people want?? WHAT PARALLEL WORLD IS THIS?
Don't worry they say they'll shove AI in it so it's definitely our world
So now when I open my mom's computer, she see 20 tab groups, I'll know it's even worse than it looks...
I'll never understand you people that need like 50 tabs open at once.
I have a few use cases:
- Many youtube videos that are like 30+ minutes long saved for later
- Documentation on some stuff that I need to go back and forth
- Movies or games that I found, but don't want to write down and forget
- Going down rabbit holes on wikipedia and saving it for another day
- Everything else that catches my attention and deserves a honorable spot in the tab bar
Basically, I use my browser as a notebook. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
So a shit ton of tabs that never get looked at again? I swear all of you secretly want your tabs to disappear so you have something to complain about.
Not the slightest! I can perfectly fine live without them, but I would be a little bit sad if they were gone. It happened once after my OneTab extension got somehow corrupted.
Yeah those all seem like great uses of bookmarks and save functions.
Bookmarks are only for the stuff I will always need again. Tabs just for the stuff I haven't finished yet and don't want to forget about.
Buddy have I got some news for you. You can actually delete bookmarks when you're done with them.
RIGHT
So why’s it hard to explain why they’re not the same… 🤔
I will do my good deed of the month. You seem like a prime candidate for Tab Stash. Does the same but better than Tab Groups. Check it out. You might like it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/
Let me know, love it or hate it. Cheers.
Hey, this looks like a better OneTab that I always wanted!
Is there some way this could work on android?
Tab Stash is great, yes. That's the answer.
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finally firefox re-added tab groups, after removing them once already in the past >_>
https://venturebeat.com/mobile/mozilla-is-removing-tab-groups-and-complete-themes-from-firefox/
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