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A comment on Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome in the dust. Parent comment

Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by vannevar on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @12:53PM (#14849409)
Tabs seem like a poor visualization of your browsing history. A history tree of your last N sites seems like it would be a lot more useful and informative (not to mention compact). Tabs don't show the tree relationship.
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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by yourapostasy on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:12PM (#14849616)
> Tabs don't show the tree relationship.

Check out the Firefox Tree Style Tab plug-in [1], is this what you had in mind?

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by glaslong on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:55PM (#14851314)
This single extension is most of the reason I use FF as my daily driver. Can't live without it anymore. Being able to build out a tree, rearrange the subtrees, close out whole subtrees at once and have history maintained on each tab has ended up being central to my whole browsing flow.
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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by vannevar on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:44PM (#14850038)
Nice!
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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by eitland on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:05PM (#14850872)
And this is why FF fans like me refuse to use "toy-browsers" for work.

Chrome might be faster than FF and a Ferrari might be faster than a pickup truck.

But:

FF and the pickup truck is more useful for work IMO

and the Ferrari and Chrome comes with a price I'm not comfortable with.

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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by noblethrasher on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:12PM (#14849620)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...
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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by infogulch on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @01:12PM (#14849609)
True, but right now it's the only way to access it. History itself is useless for this purpose.
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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by seanp2k2 on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:53PM (#14850755)
You really need a graph with a timeline / histogram or similar. See my previous comment which has more ideas. I hope someone builds this, but I know that the way to see it happen is to go do it.
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