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Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by peng on Friday July 23, 2010 @10:00PM (#1542891)
Too many tabs has never been an issue for me. Can anyone actually read more than one tab at once? If you're thinking of buying a DSLR, then focus on researching cameras. Close those tabs when you're done.

Exercise restraint, guys. Tab grouping is the classic engineer's solution to a non-problem.

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Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by mbrubeck on Saturday July 24, 2010 @03:28AM (#1543298)
"Not a problem for me" is not the same thing as "not a problem."

People's browsing habits differ. Some of us do use multiple windows and tabs so we can switch our focus away from a task and return to it later. Mozilla's user studies and large-scale data mining through Test Pilot bear this out, e.g. http://surfmind.com/muzings/?p=505 - among other things, that analysis of several thousand Firefox users found that tab opening/closing behavior among the participants followed a bimodal distribution.

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Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by yxhuvud on Saturday July 24, 2010 @09:58AM (#1543633)
counts open tabs

43.

It would be horrible to manage without any grouping mechanism and hierarchical organisation. Thanks Tab Kit.

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Re:Tab Candy: Mozilla Labs is making Firefox tabs sweet by chrisbolt on Saturday July 24, 2010 @02:38AM (#1543264)
Open a new window, drag any existing tabs into that window. The solution already exists.
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