Ask HN: How do you cope with your browser tab overload?

Re:Ask HN: How do you cope with your browser tab overload? by chatmasta on Monday March 24, 2014 @12:34PM (#7459191)

I would love a tree representation of tabs. Every link you open in a new tab creates a child of the current tab. So if I search google for "foo bar" and then open the first three results in new tabs, I will have a d=2 tree with root google and three children results.

I find that I navigate the web like this and a tree solution would be nice.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you cope with your browser tab overload? by mcintyre1994 on Monday March 24, 2014 @03:13PM (#7460632)

Is this what you're looking for? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta... Last I checked it's Firefox only and Chrome doesn't expose a powerful enough API for it though.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you cope with your browser tab overload? by mattkennedy on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:14PM (#7461095)

If you are using Chrome, we've come across Sidewise ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sidewise-tree-styl... ) and TabOutliner ( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabs-outliner/eggk... ).

Have you found Tree Style Tabs has addressed most of your tab problem?

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Re:Ask HN: How do you cope with your browser tab overload? by mcintyre1994 on Monday March 24, 2014 @04:57PM (#7461403)

Ah they look pretty good, I guess the API issue is with putting them in the main window? I can't blame Google for that choice, but the Firefox one looks a lot neater.

To be honest I use Chrome most of the time. My laptop's not particularly great and tends to slow to a crawl to tell me to control my tabs long before I get to a major problem. That's not to say I manage them well, I rely a lot on Chrome's history search and recent tabs, I close a lot of tabs I wish I hadn't.. the slow down really annoys me.

I answered your poll btw, looking forward to seeing what you come up with! :)

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Re:Ask HN: How do you cope with your browser tab overload? by mattkennedy on Monday March 24, 2014 @02:01PM (#7459985)

This, sir, is precisely what we're thinking of building! Many of the current solutions lack this context. Whilst it isn't the solution in itself, we have a hunch that it's the first step.

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