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Comment by drfloyd51

11 hours ago

This isn’t as useless as it seems. It is a visual representation of how old the tab is. And I control what “old” is.

To put it another way, it helps me recognize which tabs I am using. And which I am saving for later without having to evaluate the content of the tab.

One tweak… the coverage percentage can it be adjustable? Max = 100% looses all information about the pages contents, except the title.

Also also… if the images can be made translucent… you can make old timey effects like yellowing and decay.

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paid_dot_expert  11 hours ago

It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.

  • j16sdiz  5 hours ago

    It would cause more tabs to be open.

    You can't use the old tab because all the plants. You open a new tab for the same page. Don't need to close any old tab for that.

    • Razengan  4 hours ago

      Seems like we're recognizing something that people actually want: The assurance that their state will be preserved

      versus what the operating system or browser can provide.

      In fact, weren't bookmarks supposed to solve EXACTLY this? You'd just bookmark a website on any page then come back to it any time in the future.

      But then websites wanted to be apps and stopped storing state in the URL...

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echelon  9 hours ago

I'm working on tab garbage collection too!

https://github.com/echelon/browser-focus

I need to add screenshots.

Basically puts an overlay on all timed out tabs, shows all timed out tabs so you can kill them all together, etc.

I want a better algorithm / heuristic that can semantically track what I'm doing.

I might eventually be brave enough to break out of tabs and let my windowing system handle everything.