I was recently forced to start my tabs from scratch again because I closed my main Firefox window while I had a private browsing window open. I finally adopted simple tab groups at home (been using it for work for a while) and was able to restore a bunch from history. But it’s annoying that Firefox just overwrites/discards your tabs if there’s another window open, especially a private browsing one where it’s not saving anything anyways.
Ctrl + shift + t to get back that window you closed with all your tabs :D
It might be too late now but for the future. Has saved me multiple times
Many tabs would be less of a problem in Firefox if the tab handling was better.
I use Firefox on principle, but tbh, Chrome’s and esp. Vivaldi’s tab handling are miles ahead.
TabStash is the name of the extension that solved my tabs problems. Now I have hundreds of tabs “open”, but they are neatly organized (stashed).
Yeah, I know that extension. It’s great.
But.
It just cannot compare to the power of Chrome’s/Edge’s tab stacking, tab grouping and group renaming, Vivaldi’s workspaces, saving tabs as sessions, tiling tabs etc. All out of the box.
sigh One day Firefox will catch up. I hope.
I couldn’t agree more. I use ff with tab stash at home and Edge at work. Tab groups and workspaces are miles ahead of anything ff has.
Sadly, this is such a massively lacking set of features that indeed it can slow productivity in some scenarios and encourage the use of the Chromium engine in one of its many iterations.
When productivity matters, Firefox is not the first choice.
And I say that with deep disappointment, as I don’t want it to be like that. I’ve tried many extensions, but they don’t fully cover all the bases that I and the people I work with would need to reach the same productivity as with the above mentioned browsers.
Try Sideberry, tab grouping, renaming, dragging and dropping, snapshots, etc.
Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it.
Unfortunately again: “Nice, but.” It’s a fantastic extension that does its best to make up for Firefox’s lack of tab handling. Hats off to the developer. Nevertheless, it is a far cry from what the competition has to offer. The others don’t need a space-consuming side panel. They can do all these things with the tabs themselves. Firefox can do almost nothing in comparison.
To each their own, I suppose. This has been my favorite tab management system I’ve used.
I haven’t used Vivaldi in years and only tried it for a short period at the time, but what features exactly are miles ahead or is it just the fact that Firefox requires a plugin to do some of what the competition has natively?
Is it an upgrade over TST ?
Some web applications force me to open their screens in separate tabs and windows, by making the screens remove any filtering on revisit by back button. And thus I have 20 tabs open that all start with the same meaningless word.
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That’s not too many.
Before it broke, I had 58 tabs open on my phone, currently I have only 19. Although on desktop I generally don’t cross 10.
But my aunt surpassed everything.
Her Chrome (Android) doesn’t even show a number anymore. It’s just “:D” -
I guess if there were a way to turn off favicons -//-
Mine is like that lol
On Firefox Android after ~100 tabs the amount is replaced with ∞.
On mine it is permanently ∞.
Are you sure they’re not just under inactive tabs?
I know exactly where they all are. I just can’t ever get myself below 100 tabs LOL
That’s a lot. I sometimes get naughty and open 6
got really crazy and had like ten open yesterday 😬
I usually finish before I get to the end of the tabs, then I get sad because I probably won’t ever revisit those tabs. Maybe they would have been “the one?” Forever lost.
'Don’t know about tabs alone but I regularly have 20-30 windows open. Many of those have more than 3 tabs. Firefox starts to get a little slow beyond that count on my machine.
I wonder why
Tree Style Tabs makes this much better. Horizontal tabs don’t really work for >10 tabs. Vertical tabs are the only way to live.
Trees is sort of useful but vertical tabs and tree tabs take a lot more space and aren’t useful .
I find Edges grouped tabs well implemented, not sure why Firefox doesnt move this way natively?
As to 14 tabs, I’d have 50 or more
Firefox had tab grouping much earlier than most browsers, but they removed it because reasons…
Tried it and was disappointed that it was an additional thing that doesn’t hide the default tab bar when enabled. Never ended up using it because of that, plus unreadable tabs is not a daily thing for me.
The trick is to use custom CSS to hide the default tab bar.
Or Firefox could add native support for both orientations, and tab grouping.
Try Sidebery instead.
OK neat I found the setting that allows hiding tabs (so it’s just groups again), better than nothing but I’m guessing I’d still need to use custom CSS to just… turn off the horizontal tab bar completely when using the tree menu?
“Close all tabs” and bookmarks are also your friends.
If they made bookmarks that would update as you navigate, yes. Until then, no, they’re not a substitute for tabs.
I think that’s what the history is for…
Not at all the same thing. For one, you can open a history entry and then navigate back from that to the page you came from to that page - which there may be several. Tabs preserve per-tab history which makes it superior in many ways to both history and bookmarks.
fair point but in practice, I don’t really see it being useful very often… You could write an extension to implement that feature so that tabs dont crowd your space…
I mean, do whatever works for you, but that sounds kinda unnecessary when you can just use an already existing feature - tabs.
I do use tab, but they are kind of a problem too… I usually have 20+ tabs opened and many of them I never revisit.
You mean history?
You’re almost there. Imagine a thing that was like a bookmark but also had its own individual history, and also kept track of where you currently are in that history.
Is their anything that implements this?
Yes, I think they’re calling them “tabs”.
Gotta check out Sidebery. It’s a big upgrade from TST
TST works better with STG, and that is a huge plus for me.
Sidebery provides this functionality as well. Don’t get me wrong. If you like TST and STG, then enjoy!
WTF is STG?
TST = Tree Style Tabs STG = Simple Tab Groups
I’ve got 167 tabs right now, and more on my laptop.
I mean how can you keep them straight at that point?
An add-on like simple tab groups. Easy, effective.
Best add-on ever, and I combine it with TST to hoard more lol.
Why
I don’t understand why people feel this way.
I have a lot of interests and things I do, if I see something I like online, I keep the tab open. This way, I’ve accumulated a lot of tabs, I’ve allocated a small amount of time in my daily activites just before sleeping in which I chip away at different tabs. That way I learn new things daily and get to close a lot of tabs. I can say I have over a thousand open tabs.
That said, I have a lot of browsers. I can literally say I collect browsers, but they have to be Foss or non-chromium. On my linux install, I have 12 browsers, I generally use or have open tabs in 8 of them, the rest I use from time to time. On my previous arch-install, I had over 15. On my lineageOS, I also have 12 and I’m still getting more from F-droid. I use around 6 on here.
Like I said, I group my tabs by interests, i.e tech, education and open new article depending on the topic in each tab. I use LinkSheet on android and Junction on linux. If I like a tab and want to keep it around, I use Native Alpha on android and Tangram on linux to create web apps for them. I open and save wikipedia articles on the Wikipedia apps on both OS’s.
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Few feelings are more freeing than closing basically all of them down. Usually I don’t even miss them, essentially all upside.
One of my friends is the worse tab hoarder I’ve ever seen.
Dude even had even script on his PC to actively backup his tabs for the inevitable moment his browser or PC would crash
I know someone’s gonna say ‘doesn’t Firefox backup tabs automatically in the event of a crash anyway?’ and you’d be correct
But ONE TIME it didn’t and left my buddy distraught which is why he has multiple fail-safes now.
Dude even had a script on his PC to actively backup his tabs for the inevitable moment his browser or PC would crash
Hey, Simple Tab Groups do this for me!
I believe there is an add on called “Tab stash” or something like that on firefox. It stashes tabs so that the use can restore them later.
It’s been some time since I last used it. seeing your comment just reminded me of it. Thanks
This hurts me on a spiritual level. I would die if I had 14 tabs open. I used to be bad about having too many tabs open, but now it just kills me inside.
You’d hate watching me work. I frequently have 50+ open, and after a project, I’ll close >100.
