tab grouping in Firefox

[Dazed_75]

On 3/19/07, der.hans <PLUGd at lufthans.com> wrote:
>
> 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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Sounds like an opportunity for you to create a FF extension.  :)

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