Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by TrevorBramble on Friday July 23, 2010 @06:47PM (#1542623)

"Worse, how many of us keep tabs open as reminders of something we want to do or read later?"

Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs.

Anyway, I don't understand why Tab Candy is an improvement over simple window management. Since the introduction of tabs, I've grouped tabs by purpose into separate windows, and rather assumed that's how everyone did it. Especially now that you can easily drag tabs from one browser window to another, it's effortless. No new GUI to learn, to expensive extension to install.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by malnourish on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:02PM (#1542650)

I definitely understand the windowing you do. I, on the other hand, despise multiple windows for firefox. It's hate learned from IE I suppose. In my case, I use TreeStyle Tabs. The tree function is vital to working.

I think Tab Candy can combine these two concepts somewhat effectively, however, Mozilla should focus on speed, reliability, and accessibility. It's much more difficult to appease the average browser with hard facts compared to pretty videos and features, I suppose.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by mbrubeck on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:48PM (#1542724)

> Mozilla should focus on speed, reliability, and accessibility.

You'll be happy to know that our Firefox 4 Vision document contains several pages of plans for speed and stability and usability, and just one line about Tab Candy:

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/05/10/firefox-4-vision-fas...

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by abp on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:30PM (#1542700)

Thats just not what Aza Raskin is working on.. And no, I'm not one of the guys who has switched to chrome for performnace.. Damn I'am.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by abp on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:35PM (#1542706)

Uh, I massively dislike working with a fat bunch of windows. How can the title of one Firefox window as tab group can be as expressive as a group of tabs you've persisted in Tab Candy with your own label?

Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs.

If you don't know any, i like Read it Later(http://readitlaterlist.com/). Anything better out there?

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by seancron on Friday July 23, 2010 @07:53PM (#1542729)

Instapaper (http://www.instapaper.com/) is another option.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by TrevorBramble on Friday July 23, 2010 @08:03PM (#1542743)

Among other context splitting, I make regular use of virtual desktops. So there are rarely more than one or two browser windows on one desktop, and anything beyond the primary window has a short lifespan.

Read it Later looks perfect; thanks for the tip. Last I bothered to look, I couldn't find a thing.

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by albemuth on Friday July 23, 2010 @09:05PM (#1542824)

Springpad is pretty good, has mobile clients and all

[ Parent | on HN ]

Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by mitchellhislop on Friday July 23, 2010 @11:38PM (#1543044)

Springpad makes a great dumptruck-I can throw a bunch of links in it, and than actually organize them, unlike with something like Instapaper. I can also put books, todos, etc in with the bookmarks. No, I dont work for them, just a recent convert.

[ Parent | on HN ]