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Re:Multiprocess Firefox by Crito on Thursday December 05, 2013 @02:45PM (#6856680)
I think there is an opportunity to blend the concepts of tabs and bookmarks. Tabs could/should be aggressively swapped out to disk, or even unloaded entirely if the state that they have is unnecessary. Obviously we can just bookmark then close a tab today if we don't care about it's state, but that is not a workflow that the standard tab/bookmark UI facilitates.

(The standard tab UI also does not facilitate massive numbers of tabs, but tree style tabs solves that problem beautifully.)

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Re:Multiprocess Firefox by jaredsohn on Thursday December 05, 2013 @04:19PM (#6857325)
A slightly different workflow is to use the OneTab Chrome extension (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...) which with a single clicks converts all of your tabs into a list that can later be reloaded.
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Re:Multiprocess Firefox by Crito on Thursday December 05, 2013 @06:01PM (#6858041)
Very interesting, thanks for the suggestion. I currently use Firefox and Chrome concurrently for various reasons, so I think I will probably get some use out of this.
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Re:Multiprocess Firefox by dredmorbius on Friday December 06, 2013 @02:02AM (#6859840)
Very much this. It's the feature I've been looking for for a while.

The ability to queue up a reading list, to tag elements, to expire portions, to group stuff for later, to annotate it.

A mix of tabs, bookmarks, a tool like Readability, and Calibre.

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