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Re:TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem by skulk on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:43PM (#25609820)
I use qutebrowser in one-window-per-tab mode and EXWM[1] as my window manager (with ivy for switching buffers). It still needs some more integration but currently is my favorite solution to this problem.

[1]: https://github.com/ch11ng/exwm

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Re:TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem by herewulf on Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:40PM (#25615157)
That's interesting. I've been looking at EXWM recently as I expand my emacs usage (I've been using XMonad for about 10 years). How do you group related tabs together? Or is this somehow not necessary?

Have you noticed a significant difference in memory usage? qutebrowser turns into quite the memory hog over time. I have to periodically restart qutebrowser so my hundreds of tabs go into suspended mode. Even suspended tabs use a good chunk of memory.

Yes, I should be better at closing tabs.

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Re:TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem by skulk on Saturday January 02, 2021 @05:51PM (#25617389)
I don't group related tabs together; I don't have a list of tabs on my screen anywhere and fuzzy finding with ivy-switch-buffer them is sufficient for me.

Unfortunately, I can't answer your other questions because I'm good at closing tabs :p

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Re:TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem by herewulf on Sunday January 03, 2021 @05:53PM (#25626028)
Thanks for the reply. I imagine I could tag them somehow and fuzzy find on the tag or a tagged subset. I'm actually looking at the Nyxt browser now also.

I'm a freelancer, so I regularly switch between various active projects or future, potential projects. That results in lots of tabs.

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Re:TabFS: Mount your Browser Tabs as a Filesystem by wutbrodo on Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:53PM (#25615303)
I will check out qutebrowser, thank you! I probably can't switch to exwm for ethical/religious reasons :p
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