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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by eitland on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @02:52PM (#14850740)
> who are these people who have hundreds and thousands of tabs open,

I'm one! I'm a happy software/systems/knowledge engineer.

> and how can we get them the help they need?

Thanks for asking! Here is my idea:

Make an even better solution! What I need:

An effortless[0] way to research big topics. This includes

- multi-path discovery (currently solved by ctrl-clicking to open links that looks useful or interesting in a sub-tab-tree while continuing to read the piece I'm already reading.)

- possibility to bookmark stuff I work on effortlessy and with cross-device sync. I currently use pinboard which is great. I'm not even fully utilizing it (.tags for instance is a part I'm sure I'm not utilizing as much as I should.)

My current setup has a few weaknesses, e.g.:

- I want a way to stash away everything down to the position of the windows (no, I actually don't think I need that, but I really would like: the current windows, the current tabs, nested the way they are etc etc). Why? In case I want to switch to another task (e.g. urgent request).

- I want an even better "OneNote" that integrates effortlessly with FF (or whatever you create to replace it).

- A tool to automatically transcribe booooring videos or at least extract the juicy few seconds that I need :-P

Feel free to suggest more great ideas here.

[0]: Yep, if you want a chance to replace my exiting system effortless is your goal.

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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by badloginagain on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:06PM (#14850881)
Tab trees would be pretty cool, especially if you list tabs in column view like I do. Opening a link in a new tab would list as a child tab, and the list of child tabs could be collapsed/hidden. Drag child tabs out of the tree to become parents themselves.

This would be great for dynamic research tasks. You could collapse trees and get a top level view, useful if you're in the weeds; you could close trees by parent, great for killing avenues of research you no long need. It would also be good for when you need to quickly check the syntax of something or fix a minor bug without disrupting the larger project you're focusing on.

From a Dev/LiveOps perspective, it would be huge- grouping all my AWS pages, CMS pages, custom dashboards, would be a huge help. I can easily sprawl tens of separate tabs to get different services to talk to eachother.

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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by eitland on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:14PM (#14850957)
This is exactly what we are used to in FF!

Currently we are in a position where we'll push for devs to provide the necessary APIs going forward and I'll be happy to have more people along to push for that.

(Also, AFAIK Mozilla will provide a LTS version of the last version that will work with real extensions.)

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Re:Firefox’s speed with large numbers of tabs leaves Chrome ... by cJ0th on Tuesday July 25, 2017 @03:20PM (#14851008)
> - I want a way to stash away everything down to the position of the windows (no, I actually don't think I need that, but I really would like: the current windows, the current tabs, nested the way they are etc etc). Why? In case I want to switch to another task (e.g. urgent request).

You may want to give this extension a shot: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/session-manager/

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