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Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by lightfooted on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:33PM (#27158007)
I’d like to try this. What browser do you use? I see that it’s a feature for Vivaldi and I also see a Chrome extension.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by zo1 on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:37PM (#27158067)
Not OP, but Tree Style Tabs is for Firefox.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by jrcii2 on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:11PM (#27158490)
Thank you so much for sharing! This is a game changer - I'd been using two separate windows and manually dragging things around like a noob.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by eitland on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:22PM (#27158611)
Now you also probably see why many of us prefer Firefox.

And: this might be hard to believe but it was much better before - extension wise.

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by all_usernames on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:31PM (#27158737)
I switched to Firefox for Tree Style Tabs.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by generalizations on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:19PM (#27159823)
I only stay with Firefox for tree style tabs.

I think, the day chrome makes TST possible, is the day Firefox loses a large fraction of it's remaining power users.

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by eitland on Saturday May 15, 2021 @02:47AM (#27163012)
All except us who will cling as to not give Google a way to make ad blocking impossible. And for me it is actually not about the ads, it is about tracking power; about should decide what runs or not on my hardware.

I'd recommend more people think like this.

For me it is a small sacrifice for now at least.

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by graeme on Saturday May 15, 2021 @12:51PM (#27166818)
Is this meaningfully different from the Firefox implementation?

I’m interested in trying.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oic...

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by dredmorbius on Saturday May 15, 2021 @05:30AM (#27163722)
Window-based task grouping (where that's possible) is ... somewhat tenable.

It's not available on Android / Mobile, of course, but on any windowing desktop OS it's an option.

Firefox + Tree Style Tabs is still worlds ahead of this.

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by hansel_der on Sunday May 16, 2021 @08:39AM (#27173285)
> Firefox + Tree Style Tabs is still worlds ahead of this.

imho the pinacle of tab-ui was pre-quantum firefox with tabkitv2.

tree style tabs is roughly on par with what opera delivered in the early 2000's or nowadays vivaldi.

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by dredmorbius on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:51PM (#27174972)
I was probably using that, when it was around.

Good, and possibly better than today's TST, but still short of my goal(s). And that's without its instability (ISTR that crashing a fair bit.)

I'd like to be able to:

- Search tabs (by metadata).

- Search tabs (by content).

- Organise tabs by task / project. Including assigning open tabs to tasks, and possibly to multiple tasks.

- A sense of utility vs. info tabs. (Pinned tabs ... sort of does this. Examples might be webmail, chat app, or tools like a dictionary or other data-lookup page.)

- Arbitrarily grouping a set of tabs based on specifiable criteria, or UI-based multi-select.

- Taking actions based on those groupings (close, combine under a single tree, bookmark, print, save, etc.)

I'd have to think more on what sorts of things I'd be doing, but Web as Workflow is a major component of this. Current browser design seems entirely antithetical to this.

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by kodablah on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:51PM (#27161558)
I made https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ to solve this, but I don't really maintain it (I just build it for myself on each new Chromium) and it doesn't work on Mac.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by generalizations on Saturday May 15, 2021 @01:16AM (#27162622)
That looks awesome. I'm going to try it out. Do extensions work on it?
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by kodablah on Sunday May 16, 2021 @12:07AM (#27171149)
No. It's also a bit buggy and you'll want to compile with latest CEF yourself.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by kirubakaran on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:03PM (#27159662)
https://histre.com/ does tree-style web history visualization. This is a personal knowledge graph app I'm working on.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by jeanchen on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:38PM (#27158084)
I highly recommend Tabs Outliner, a Chrome extension
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by dredmorbius on Saturday May 15, 2021 @05:31AM (#27163724)
A very pale shadow of TST.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by mglass3000 on Friday May 14, 2021 @09:07PM (#27161320)
I use Bookmark OS which lets me organize tab sessions in a folder tree structure. Worth checking out