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----- > From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@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 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 >>> -- >>> # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ >>> # "If class warfare is being waged in America, my class is clearly >>> winning." >>> # -- Warren Buffett >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> >> >> > > -- # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.CiscoLearning.org/ # "We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. # Law enforcement was not supposed to be easy. # Where it is easy, it's called a police state." -- Jeff Schiller