[kwlug-disc] Firefox tab addons - tab folders?
unsolicited
unsolicited at swiz.ca
Mon Feb 8 19:37:21 EST 2010
TabGroups, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10254, looks
like it's going to be useful. FWIW.
Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 02/08/2010 6:06 PM:
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 5:44 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca
> <mailto:unsolicited at swiz.ca>> wrote:
>
> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 02/08/2010 5:10 PM:
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca
> <mailto:unsolicited at swiz.ca> <mailto:unsolicited at swiz.ca
> <mailto:unsolicited at swiz.ca>>> wrote:
>
> Khalid, recently, indicated he has something like 240 tabs
> open in
> Firefox.
>
> Yes, it is a bad habit. Yes, I can stop anytime ... umm Ctrl-T. :-)
>
> I've had to go to taberwocky as firefox version updates have left
> whatever addon I was using in the dust.
>
> I now have three rows across the top of opened tabs. (I like tabs
> across the top, not the side.)
>
> This is getting irritating. Yes, I could close the tabs.
> Don't want
> to. tthhpptt.
>
> Any add ons out there that keep tabs along the top, but let
> me put
> them in folders? i.e. There are groups of tabs related to
> whatever I
> was investigating at the time, but haven't gotten around to a
> conclusion on yet. It would be nice to group these tabs into a
> single tab bar entry that was expandable.
>
> I never bothered to have all the tabs visible. They scroll when
> there is more of them on the screen. Normally this is one window
> only (the "read later" window).
>
>
> First, I ended up with taberwocky as my normal 'duplicate tab'
> functionality was lost. [I forget due to firefox version upgrade, or
> installed a new firefox version and went looking to see what one can
> do with tabs.] The first addon I tried, much like you describe, got
> irritating as it wrapped - when I just wanted to go to the last tab,
> and scrolled right ... it never stopped scrolling. <sigh>
>
>
> Yes, that happens.
>
> But I use Ctrl-Tab to go to the next tab, or when I am on the first tab
> (my RSS reader), I press Ctrl-Shift-Tab to go to the last tab.
>
> Um, are you saying you have multiple firefox windows open, one of
> which is designated as the read later window? (1) What, do you just
> move tabs back and forth between the two? e.g. On the non-read-later
> window you come across something for later reading, you just
> right-click the tap and say 'go to other window'?
>
>
> Nothing fancy, just click in the URL box and do Ctrl-A Ctrl-C to copy
> the URL, then switch to the other Window, and click Ctrl-T and then
> Ctrl-P to paste the URL, followed by enter. Maybe not the most efficient
> way, but no extensions needed, and my fingers learned how to do it
> without me thinking much. Less mousing too.
>
> (2) No problems with multiple windows opening with the correct tabs
> after exiting / starting firefox again?
>
>
> That is what Session Manager does. You can save sessions for opening
> later, and it saves automatically the last session for you, and you get
> exactly where you were if FireFox closes.
>
>
>
> What I use is session manager (a life saver to open what I was
> in last time, whether it is a crash or need to reboot because of
> a new kernel, ..etc.) and NoScript, which stops javascript and
> Flash on most sites. Those two are the reason Firefox uses so
> much CPU. Without NoScript,Firefox becomes very slow with so
> many tabs opened most of them with ads dancing around.
>
>
> On list (your?) recommendation I loaded noscript. Not entirely sure
> I'm impressed with it. Think I added noreferrer and flashblock
> addons as well. Not sure I'm happier with noscript over just ad
> block plus.
>
>
> It takes some getting used to. You have to get used to web sites looking
> broken
> until you enable JS and Flash for them explicitly, or add them to a
> whitelist.
>
> But I see a significant performance boost when having that many tabs
> open. Otherwise, things are really sluggish as Flash ads suck up so much
> CPU time.
>
>
> Session Manager?
>
> This is the magic for re-opening your multiple sessions with the
> same tabs?
>
>
> Yes.
>
>
> And this is different than the built in 'session manager' which
> keeps/restores your tabs at firefox close/open?
>
>
> Yes. It allows you to save and go to previous sessions.
>
> Try it. There is no downside to it.
>
>
> Suggestions?
>
> (Note, I'm not talking bookmarks, here. Opened tabs.)
>
>
> It would still be nice to tree/folder tabs on the tab bar
>
>
> Yes, it would. When someone has something work, please share it.
>
>
> - put all those read later tabs pertaining to X in one tab. Perhaps
> this is what you gain with session manager. Essentially each windows
> becomes that grouping. Certainly not move the tabs to the side.
>
>
> No solution to have all the tabs visible yet for me.
>
> Saw these on Mozilla right now
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4838
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/8879
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1122
>
> Some of those overlap with each other and with Session Manager, and
> I have not tried any of them yet.
>
> Again, someone can share what they use.
>
> (And Richard, yes, this could be "Firefox extensions that I use" group
> presentation!)
> --
> Khalid M. Baheyeldin
> 2bits.com <http://2bits.com>, Inc.
> http://2bits.com
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