tab grouping in Firefox

Tue Mar 20 01:32:34 MST 2007

Am 19. Mar, 2007 schwätzte Bryan O'Neal so:

> Just out of curocity, how many pages are we talking?  My mozilla

I generally keep my tabs less than 20. Lately they've been creeping up to
40 on a couple of boxen :(. Firefox has been plenty stable with them. I'm
using both 1.5.x and 2.x.

> 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

I generally replaced bookmarks with search engines years ago :).

> 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 :)

The dynamically loaded stuff has volatile info that often changes every
$time_period.

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

Most definitely.

ciao,

der.hans

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 5:22 PM
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> Subject: Re: tab grouping in Firefox
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> 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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