Re:“Why does Chrome not have a good tab management system bu...
by dredmorbius on Tuesday June 09, 2015 @08:21PM
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Part of the problem is that once you reach a certain level (20-25 tabs) mental state breaks down with flat horizontal tabs. The management's so bad you end up with a mess and can't spare the cycles to clean it up.
With tree-style tabs (Fireox), it's possible to see the relationships between tabs, with parents and stuff, so you can close an entire subtree trivially. For Chrome, that's not possible.
Even with Tab Outliner (which I've got), the disconnect between the T.O. window and the current window is utterly lost.
Also, for memory management, I cannot simply "unload" the current tab from within Chrome (though apparently with extensions that's possible). I do browse with the Task Manager open and routinely kill off windows to free memory. But that's also less than optimal.
Lots of make-work for shit my computer should be able to keep track of and handle for me.
With tree-style tabs (Fireox), it's possible to see the relationships between tabs, with parents and stuff, so you can close an entire subtree trivially. For Chrome, that's not possible.
Even with Tab Outliner (which I've got), the disconnect between the T.O. window and the current window is utterly lost.
Also, for memory management, I cannot simply "unload" the current tab from within Chrome (though apparently with extensions that's possible). I do browse with the Task Manager open and routinely kill off windows to free memory. But that's also less than optimal.
Lots of make-work for shit my computer should be able to keep track of and handle for me.