treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can’t really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven’t tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I’ll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)
I love the new vertical tabs. I just wish I could select which side of the window the sidebar is placed on per window since I have a browser on each monitor.
I also sort my tabs by entertainment or manuals in the one window, active reading or similar in the main window. That helps sort my 400+ tabs enough and if that’s not enough I can always search.
I haven’t really used bookmarks for probably close to two decades, for various reasons.
Keeping them synchronized always was a pain, and that was before you got into multiple browsers. That part at least is better now.
Then the interfaces to manage them sucked - I did try a bit back then to manage them externally, but the storage formats also were stupid.
And then I seemed to have reached the number of bookmarks the browsers no longer were able to handle (presumably due to the shitty way they were storing them), and adding or editing bookmarks always included several seconds between clicks to wait for the browser to react.
Pretty much everything apart from the first point is still true for the built in bookmark managers.
And tabs management is somehow better? I dont even wrap my head around that you’d have more bookmarks that it slows the browser but yet think that many tabs wouldnt?
Well, one thing is that I have significantly less tabs than I had bookmarks. My bookmarks where somewhere high in the 5-figure range, maybe even 6 figure.
My heaviest used system has less than 10k tabs open.
It’s not ideal, but the tab trees in treestyle tabs mean I usually can just scroll a short bit and click to find what I need.
Ideal would be a fully external bookmark manager - but browsers don’t have APIs for that, so you’d have to end up writing an extension just to talk to your external management solution, and since they gimped the firefox plugin system about a decade ago you don’t really have any useful APIs for doing that. (I’m current maintainer of the emacs keybindings extension for firefox, it’s a hot mess to get a fraction of the functionality that was possible with the old extension system working. No idea why they don’t offer the ability to do custom keybindings)
treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can’t really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven’t tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I’ll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)
I love the new vertical tabs. I just wish I could select which side of the window the sidebar is placed on per window since I have a browser on each monitor.
I also sort my tabs by entertainment or manuals in the one window, active reading or similar in the main window. That helps sort my 400+ tabs enough and if that’s not enough I can always search.
People really reinvent things like a bookmark manager.
I haven’t really used bookmarks for probably close to two decades, for various reasons.
Keeping them synchronized always was a pain, and that was before you got into multiple browsers. That part at least is better now.
Then the interfaces to manage them sucked - I did try a bit back then to manage them externally, but the storage formats also were stupid.
And then I seemed to have reached the number of bookmarks the browsers no longer were able to handle (presumably due to the shitty way they were storing them), and adding or editing bookmarks always included several seconds between clicks to wait for the browser to react.
Pretty much everything apart from the first point is still true for the built in bookmark managers.
And tabs management is somehow better? I dont even wrap my head around that you’d have more bookmarks that it slows the browser but yet think that many tabs wouldnt?
Well, one thing is that I have significantly less tabs than I had bookmarks. My bookmarks where somewhere high in the 5-figure range, maybe even 6 figure.
My heaviest used system has less than 10k tabs open.
It’s not ideal, but the tab trees in treestyle tabs mean I usually can just scroll a short bit and click to find what I need.
Ideal would be a fully external bookmark manager - but browsers don’t have APIs for that, so you’d have to end up writing an extension just to talk to your external management solution, and since they gimped the firefox plugin system about a decade ago you don’t really have any useful APIs for doing that. (I’m current maintainer of the emacs keybindings extension for firefox, it’s a hot mess to get a fraction of the functionality that was possible with the old extension system working. No idea why they don’t offer the ability to do custom keybindings)