tab grouping in Firefox

[Bryan O'Neal]

Just out of curocity, how many pages are we talking?  My mozilla installations, be if Linux, Win, or Mac get seriously bogged down if I have more then a hundred pages open and all but crash if I go beyond ~150-200 pages. I do not synch book marks, but on my work machines I would say I have ~100 bookmarks between them, on my home machine it is about the same.  I rarely group more then 20 bookmarks together.  (I am not a power user, I just can't remember anything so I refer back to things often during research) For most of the items I know I will need to keep for reference, that are dynamically loaded, I just save the page as a full archive (Thus making it static) and book mark that.  So far I have never had to worry :)

However, I agree that having the ability to hierarchically manage live tabs would be sweet! 

-----Original Message-----
From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of der.hans
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:22 PM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: tab grouping in Firefox

Am 19. Mar, 2007 schwätzte Dazed_75 so:

> Is there any reason you cannot use the "Bookmark all Tabs" option?  I might
> think to have a few folders according to a scheme like you describe (e.g.
> NewsHold, Working, etc.) and use bookmark all tabs to one of them.  You

Bookmarks don't retain history ( some of the pages are built by a history
of clicks on a non-distinct URL ( yeah, suckath, but I don't get to fix
them ) ) or authentication.

They also don't allow me to view a page without a network connection.
There are times when having the page content still cached is sufficient.
That might be achieved via a check-cache-first type of load. Is that an
option in FF?

Bookmarks and reloading are also slower than I imagine an unhide_bookmarks
feature would be.

I don't like being tied to a web browser for information, but such is the
way information is going, so I want to make it more functional.

Heck, serializing those tabs to disk for easy reconstitution would
probably be better because it could free up memory.

"Firefox, now with tab concentrate, just click to reconstitute!"

ciao,

der.hans

> might need to clean up from time to time though (I've not checked).  Another
> possibility is the same except that you use a new folder each time and
> delete each one when you finish with it.
>
> On 3/19/07, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>> 
>> moin moin,
>> 
>> just went through all the tab extensions and didn't see what I want.
>> 
>> I'd like to be able to group a set of tabs and hide all but one. Actually,
>> I'd like to be able to hide all of them or any number of them.
>> 
>> For instance, let's say I'm reading my daily news in the afternoon with
>> breakfast, I start opening up links to articles I want to read. I might
>> read and closed half of them and want to get to the rest later, so I'd
>> collapse the remaining items all down to one tab. Better yet I'd have them
>> all hidden as a group to be called up later.
>> 
>> I would then open up my $dayjob group and start checking things.
>> 
>> In fact, $dayjob would have multiple groups, so I might open one group for
>> $dayjob while leaving others hidden. Heck, it'd be awesome to be able to
>> have a group of groups.
>> 
>> In the evening, when I'm working on PLUG or LOPSA stuff, I might need to
>> have several different pages open at a time.
>> 
>> The new set could easily be done with a group bookmark as I refuse to
>> login for news articles.
>> 
>> Other sets I need have pages that I generally need to keep open. Some of
>> those involve password-protected, deep link pages. I also tend to need
>> them in groupings for different projects.
>> 
>> After I get this worked out, I'll also need a way to watch some of them
>> for updates and have some form of notification.
>> 
>> ciao,
>> 
>> der.hans
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