Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by grogenaut on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:29AM
(#36774081)
For me I just type titles or word back into the browser bar and Firefox searches history. How are you searching/navigating to find the right tab of several hundred to go back to that tab?
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Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by SomeHacker44 on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @11:34AM
(#36774170)
Too many sites have useless titles, or URLs that if you go back to you don't get to the same state you had when you closed the window. So, I find that history is for the most part useless. Sometimes it works - but not reliably.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by sundarurfriend on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:21PM
(#36774999)
Vimium - press shift-T - search among all page titles and URLs of open tabs.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by grogenaut on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @05:35PM
(#36779397)
Why is that better than searching history or bookmarks?
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by sundarurfriend on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @02:11AM
(#36782664)
Bookmarks are long-term useful things to keep saved, and don't serve the same purpose as these open tabs.
As for history, imagine you're researching a topic and have gone through fifteen search results, decided three of them were relevant, and closed the others. Your history is polluted with all fifteen, whereas this tab search will directly return you these most relevant pages only.
Re:Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
by beltsazar on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @12:33PM
(#36775229)
You can also search open tabs in the address bar: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...
I hardly use it, though, because I usually have < 100 open tabs, not thousands like others have. I identify tabs by their tree structures (parents, children, siblings tabs) and the prefixes of the titles, whose lengths don't depend on how many tabs opened, because the tabs are arranged vertically.