Comment by dyauspitr
2 years ago
Why not just bookmark them. It’s not like it’s going to stay in memory. It’s going to reload the page when you go back anyways.
2 years ago
Why not just bookmark them. It’s not like it’s going to stay in memory. It’s going to reload the page when you go back anyways.
Not the OP, but I also have a lot of tabs. In every browser I’ve tried the bookmark manager is rather primitive. I once ran into a Floccus bug that duplicated tens of thousands of bookmarks and discovered bookmark managers also don’t scale very well.
The bigger problem with bookmarks for me is the inability to manage relationships. With the Tree Style Tabs add-on in Firefox and vertical tabs in Orion, child tabs are opened in a tree. It codifies my search context and makes tab management quite easy. The analog in bookmarks is using folders, but they’re rather tedious to create when bookmarking and I can’t think of any browser that will auto-create nested folders when bulk bookmarking tabs.
I've been using Sidebery, which has a feature to bookmark the whole panel. It then creates a subfolder for every indentation in the tree.
What? The bookmark manager easily allows for tree structured saving of bookmarks with bookmark folders. Am I missing something here?
Will it automatically create the folders based on the ancestry of tab open events? I acknowledged that you can nest folders, but find it incredibly tedious to have to do it manually. If you know of a way to carry the tab tree over to bookmarks I’d be very interested in knowing how.
Absent that, it’s considerably easier to leave the tabs open. The tree will even be restored when the browser starts should I need to reboot.
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Why can't tabs just be a visualization of browser history with the most recently used entries cached and bookmarks can go to hell (aka just be used for a hotbar)
Yeah it feels like 90% of people I've seen with mega tabs is basically that.
I can't understand the tab thing when history is pretty easily accessed in modern browsers... but it's common enough not to judge too harshly.
For me not really. Open tabs are a TODO list, that are organized by work session. They get opened next to each other while I am working, and when I come back to that work, I find the tab group. I clean them up when I no longer need certain pages, and only leave open the ones with unfinished business. I visit literally hundreds of pages that are closed per open tab.
It is like I have a huge desk with papers that appear to be strewn across it, but actually are organized and the layout is important to my train of thought.
Bookmarking needs a solid overhaul.
Support different groupings, regexp renaming, persistent original date order + additional last used orders, etc. (I have a longish list of wants).
I want better autofiltering on history (eg: dump all map url's that proliferate on every slight viewport change; dump all (say) HN links unless explicitly saved; save type XXX, quesry type YYY's for saving, etc) and overall more thought on easy organisation and "restoring" a particuar view of the internet from X time ago.
Bookmarks don't contain the history for the tab. History can be critical.
I can't speak for OP, but in my case it's a mixture of ADHD and a terrible story for bookmarking, which hasn't evolved at all in the last 20 years.
I have tried various bookmarking systems and inevitably things get lost. I don't find bookmarks useful long term either.
Bookmarks are a graveyard for tabs. Once you have bookmarked a tab, you 100% are never going to revisit the tab.