I understand it since switching to vertical tabs via Sidebery. You can organize them into panels/groups/nested hierarchy, and tabs are only reloaded when you open them, so it’s not as if you maintain 7k tabs in RAM. Think of it more like bookmarks that are actually organized and useful. It’s what bookmarks might have been if not for Pocket.
Not heard of sidebery, but totally relate as a Tree Style Tabs user. That and multi account containers means I regularly have a couple hundred tabs per window…
That ain’t no power user, that’s a lazy tech who needs to clean up after himself and close a browser window every once in awhile.
Of course the tabs would just come back up next time they open the browser window again. Can’t risk losing those precious tabs, there might be an important one among them.
Signed, a tab hoarder.
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How is that a “power user”? That’s just a poor way to use the browser. It’s basically just 7400 bookmarks in one long list; you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
A power user would use something called “bookmarks” to organise that better.
you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
You can with extensions. Tree Style Tabs, I dont even have a top tab bar.
My grandma doesn’t understand what tabs are and never closes them either.
hell
What an idiot, thats why I have 7,400 bookmarks that I never intend to sort.
i appreciate ff can do this and all, but isnt this usecase covered by you know, the browser history?
Well, no. Firefox deletes entries older than 6 months from history and there’s no way to change this or to export the data.
Just bookmark it, jeez…
Also history search is terrible
Of bookmarks, I always have like 20 tabs max open at once, I feel alone.
Imagine her reaction when she finds out that firefox got a browsing history feature
Putting bookmarks in Folders, and using keywords for frequently visited sites is enough for me.
A man culture I see
I have three open and feel like its a bit much.
This makes me feel good about my 300+ open tabs😅
ADHD moment
“I have so many topics I want to look at at once!” proceeds to get distracted with one of them and forget about all the others
Out of sight out of mind.
That’s my problem. Three screen setup. I have three browser instances open.
Instance 1: YouTube. (Left screen) Instance 2: Gaming wiki’s and info for the game I’m currently playing. (Right screen) Instance 3. Online courses and study materials. (Right screen. I swap between instance 2 and 3 based on what in currently doing on my main monitor).
I’ll constantly delay or forget to study just because it’s not the currently opened in the foreground.
I feel like a power user would have a clean and clear bookmark game, not thousand of tabs… How the hell do you even navigate into this mess? I’ve just re-organise my bookmarks and folders, imported them in nextcloud, and I feel like the master of the internet.
I use Tab Stash if I’m about to close/restart the browser or I changed the focus of my research, but if I don’t wanna lose some keywords or something, I prefer to use KNotes (or any sticky notes) and write why some keywords are important and their context, so I don’t have to maintain too many open tabs. Just yesterday I had like 15 tabs and was overwhelmed lol
I wonder if they were using FF back when they had the Panorama feature back in the day. That many tabs seems like it would be great for organizing everything. It is almost hilarious to think that FF was so far ahead of the game that it just didn’t make sense. Now all the other major browsers are adding some kind of tab groups feature.
The way FF did it was cool and was like having virtual desktops but groups of tabs. Aside from proper vertical tabs that keeps theme and doesn’t require hacking settings to get rid of the horizontal row (Edge and Brave are good examples as their hover to expand titles and collapse when using the pages are smooth). Bringing back grouping tabs like Panorama had them would be really cool to have again.
Though I would love to see a blend of nice vertical tabs and groups like what I see in screenshots of browsers like Arc. Very different looking but in a good way. If FF could make their own spin of that UI work with both vertical and horizontal tabs. It would be dope af.
