I'm a "tab hoarder" and you've hit the nail right on the head.
> The positioning of the tab is an indication of approx. when that tab had been opened, and the other tabs near it is likely similar in subject matter, or is related somehow.
Add in tree style tabs and you get this relationship on steroids - new tabs are automatically a child of the source tab, and you can expand/collapse the tree.
Re:Vimium – The Hacker's Browser
by gibspaulding on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @08:50AM
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Thank you for this, it's something I never understood.
I have to shut down everything at the end of the day and start from a clean reboot the next or I get overwhelmed. I think it's sort of my way of unloading work stuff from my brain at the end of the day and loading up again at the beginning of the next.
It takes more time to bookmark a link, than it is to open it in a new tab. The positioning of the tab is an indication of approx. when that tab had been opened, and the other tabs near it is likely similar in subject matter, or is related somehow.
It acts as a queue to be processed as well.
And for a lot of browsers, the auto-preloading means you can have the tab "saved" and you can view it, even if it took long time to load. It's a form of "offline" viewing.
If bookmarks can achieve _all_ of the above, without having the need for the user to do anything extra, it would actually replace tabs. But so far, i've not seen anyone switch.