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Yeah, nothing like 60 tabs you can't tell apart all squeezed into view.


Tree Style Tabs is a common Firefox add-on people use to manage large number of tabs. Or you can click on the down caret on the right side of the tabs bar to get the full list of your tabs.


I tried it out, but honestly it didn't help. Dealing with 300+ tabs at a time, it just made hierarchical resolution a total mess.

I don't need to know the physical location of my tab. That's what the address bar and Ctrl+Tab are for.


Huh. Tree Style Tabs has millions of happy users. And if you type in the address bar FF will match against open tab names and urls, and let you switch to them.


Happy millions of users use Chrome.

> if you type in the address bar FF will match against open tab names and urls, and let you switch to them.

Hence my comment:

> That's what the address bar and Ctrl+Tab are for.


>And if you type in the address bar FF will match against open tab names and urls, and let you switch to them.

Something that Chrome also has.


Much like my physical desktop full of papers you can't see which is which just glancing from above, and my overall laptop desktop full of dozens of different windows... it's cluttered, but I know what's what enough to find it, usually!

Sure, I could put all those papers on my desk into a drawer, or even file them, but who's got time for that? (Answer: those who are succesfully less cluttered than the cluttered among us).


It takes less than 3 seconds to find a lost tab even with 300+ in Firefox. Ctrl+L, type in a keyword.




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