chrome recently rolled out something that groups browser tabs together. I thought they said they used AI. But basically a bunch of youtube tabs get consolidated into a youtube button tab that toggles the group to expand.

Makes sense. Wouldn't grouping based on the context of what i'm browsing be more desirable? If i'm searching a bug fix i'll probably be doing it across multiple domains, perhaps a tab group based on that.

Arc Browser does that already, also for downloaded files. Looks neat.

+1 for Arc

I really like Arc, but I hate when I go through the file download context to choose a path and file name, then Arc renames the file. For the direct downloads, I’m all for it, but I wish it recognized that I chose a file name myself, so don’t rename.

Haven’t played with its tab organization, though.

Also with the possibility to look at the current tab and open a new window populated with tabs from related pages you've visited earlier.

The high level strategy would be to get the browser tab contents and then ask a local LLM to organize the tabs based on their full content. If you run selenium or some developer versions of certain browsers you might be able to source the full contents directly, including any state that may not be obvious from only the URL. If the url of the tabs is enough (for most cases it should be), then there are many options and relatively easy implementations possible. Emacs has tools to communicate with browsers (though they depend on the local OS and some are limited to only certain browsers or certain OSs), so if you are happy with controlling the tabs from Emacs, you could simply reorganize/regroup the tabs within an Emacs buffer with the help of an LLM that gets the url and may open up connections to see what the trivially accessible contents aee. I would use this and might test this idea when I am not AFK. If Emacs is not an option, perhaps find an OS or extension-dependent way to reorganize the tabs.

an extension seems the most natural way to do this, but that would entail hosting a model which isn't cheap, will give it a go

Can extensions connect to localhost? IE to a local ollama for example.

Yes they can. But the ergonomics of that aren't great. Also ollama takes up a sigificant amount of memory. I'm trying this with a cheap model like phi-3 hosted on my server.