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Google Developer Says Chrome Team is Working on a Scrollable Tabstrip For the Browser (techdows.com)

Posted by msmash on from the hallelujah dept.

If you're a tab-hoarder, and you use Chrome browser, Google may have some news for you soon. The company is working on a scrollable tabstrip to make it easier for users to navigate through tabs, a developer was quoted as saying. Peter Casting, who works on Chrome UI, said, "scrollable tabstrip is in the works. In the meantime, try shift-clicking and ctrl-clicking to select multiple tabs at once, then drag out to separate Windows to group tabs by Window." TechDows, which first reported the development: We're expecting this as the related bug, the 'UI: tab overflow' bug created 10 years back, reports opening too many tabs causes add tab button (+) to disappear and tabs do not scroll then, the expected result has been mentioned as 'scrollable tabs.' Further reading: Google is raiding Firefox for Chrome's next UI features.

82 comments

  1. Work on memory usage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    I usually run out of memory before I run out of room for tabs.

    1. Re: Work on memory usage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Upgrade to a modern machine with 32G RAM. Problem solved!

    2. Re: Work on memory usage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      They already added an easy fix for this: the close button.

      Don't keep all your tabs open. If you want to come back to a page later, bookmark it and close the tab.

    3. Re: Work on memory usage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      +SSD

    4. Re: Work on memory usage by helllllllloooo · · Score: 1

      Oh, look! The common sense meter just went to 11.

    5. Re: Work on memory usage by Joce640k · · Score: 1

      I'll get right on it, right after you paypal me the money for the upgrade.

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    6. Re: Work on memory usage by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Download RAM you fool!

  2. Chrome UI is horrible by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    But I always giggle when I see "Manage other people"

  3. 30+ Concurrent tabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is going to change my wifeâ(TM)s life. She is a big time tab-hoarder with 30 concurrent tabs *permanently* open in Chrome.

    1. Re:30+ Concurrent tabs by Opportunist · · Score: 1

      42 right now and counting.

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    2. Re:30+ Concurrent tabs by yuvcifjt · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Try Firefox, tab management and scrolling has been a "feature" for quite a long time now;

      and Firefox Quantum (v57+) is generally faster than Chrome if not the same, and uses less memory on Windows.

    3. Re:30+ Concurrent tabs by Joce640k · · Score: 2

      The feature they *should* have added is a tab count display on the right of the bar.

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    4. Re:30+ Concurrent tabs by cmeans · · Score: 1

      I have 3 Chrome windows: 78, 15 and 10 tabs. (I'm not going to mention my FF window.)

      "Hello, my name is Chris, and I'm a tab-hoarder."

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    5. Re:30+ Concurrent tabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Yeah, except the tab management groups got canned with Quantum..

    6. Re: 30+ Concurrent tabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      In recent versions Connex is worth a look

    7. Re: 30+ Concurrent tabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It didn't get canned, they decided to put it in an extension instead which is the way Firefox is supposed to work.

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/multi-account-containers

  4. Like the vertical tab strip? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    They made and then discontinued a few months later...?

    1. Re: Like the vertical tab strip? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      This is why I still use Firefox/Waterfox. The answer is simple with our wide-screen monitors: vertical tab support. Just re-enable it (but better) from what you used to have.

      But noooo reusing old code doesn't get some engineer/manager promoted. Gotta invent something new. Smh...

  5. Innovators by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Between this and skipping TWO ads in YouTube, these guys are amazing

  6. But what's faster? by mark_reh · · Score: 1

    Searching through hundreds of tabs or just typing your search into a new one?

    I have a better idea. Why not reserve one tab (maybe the leftmost one) for searching open tabs? Then you won't have to scroll through them- just enter a key word or two on the tab search tab and the browser will switch to the tab you're looking for. Or even just use a hot-key that tells the browser that whatever you type after the hot-key is a search term for the open tabs.

    Or better yet, don't keep dozens or hundreds of tabs open at once.

    1. Re:But what's faster? by bogaboga · · Score: 1

      I love your ideas.

      Even better; a key stroke combination to associate a number of tabs with the combination.

      That is, once entered those tabs load automatically.

    2. Re:But what's faster? by dissy · · Score: 1

      Searching through hundreds of tabs or just typing your search into a new one?
      I have a better idea. Why not reserve one tab (maybe the leftmost one) for searching open tabs?

      The addon "List Opened Tabs" lets you do both. You can put its icon anywhere (mines on the right, but left works too), and lists out tab titles in full, and has a search box.
      I don't think it has a hotkey built in though.

      Or better yet, don't keep dozens or hundreds of tabs open at once.

      You can't tell me what to do!

    3. Re:But what's faster? by Tough+Love · · Score: 1

      just enter a key word or two on the tab search tab and the browser will switch to the tab you're looking for

      Firefox already does that, using url suggestions. Chrome kind of does it but in a crappier way that has trouble with text not at the beginning of the url.

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  7. I use the XUL version of treestyletabs by xack · · Score: 1

    You need a non quantum browser to use it but it gets my tab addiction fixed. Shame Google took so long as they were working on more trackibg mechanisms instead.

    1. Re:I use the XUL version of treestyletabs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      TreeStyleTab (TST) also works on quantum, I'm not sure what your problem is.

  8. Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by AbRASiON · · Score: 2

    Firstly, introduce the right code for duplicate tab blocking.

    I'm basically an ADHD browser, 100 tab average, 200 bad and 400 extreme.

    When I open a new middle click Gmail tab, my fourth one of them, cause I lost the other 3. Use "pull to location" code, that will bring the existing open tab from it's spot to my new tab location, maybe refresh it.
    That alone will save me a heap of hassle.

    Fixed tab width so I can read tab names.
    Some kind of tree or similar option to see what is what. .........

    .

    1. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Interesting

      Well if you have 100 tabs opened on average, the problem is with you and not the browser.

    2. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      TABs are "living bookmarks" for me. The page is already loaded, and when I need to reference said tab, it's there when I need it.
      I have on average over 50 tabs. I'm surprised FF still supports them...

      (Corporations like MS / Google / iApple) still don't understand that computers are tools, and even today, after 30 or so years
      of development, still can't perform basic connected tasks. Solved problems like having the mouse cursor disappear when typing,
      something that used to work w/Apple Macs. But yet I stare at a mouse cursor while I type. It's really sad - really, really sad.

      I have a picture - I want to do something with that pic - but there are no off-the-shelf tools to do this something. You have to write
      a (C/script) program to do a basic task. But even with that, you can't attach that to the picture - impossible (say you simply want to
      show it's photograph date) with the currant trash technology out there today. Software is constantly reinventing the wheel and
      feeling proud of its great achievement. I double-dog dare anyone out there to show a picture's date no matter where the picture
      is on the computer, no matter what application it's opened with. Go on...

      Anyway, software now is all about making flashy buttons and tracking people and to tie them in with a "subscription" or DRM.
      It's not about being a tool to help people. We do what the computer tells us; the computer doesn't do what we "tell" it or
      want it to do.

      CAP === 'agreed'

    3. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have a picture - I want to do something with that pic - but there are no off-the-shelf tools to do this something. You have to write
      a (C/script) program to do a basic task. But even with that, you can't attach that to the picture - impossible (say you simply want to
      show it's photograph date) with the currant trash technology out there today. Software is constantly reinventing the wheel and
      feeling proud of its great achievement. I double-dog dare anyone out there to show a picture's date no matter where the picture
      is on the computer, no matter what application it's opened with. Go on...

      No sweat.

    4. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by Lorens · · Score: 1

      Not opening duplicate tabs (unless I really want it, which I sometimes do) is a feature I've wanted for a long time!

      As for fixed tab width, I'd prefer a button to list all my tabs with the full name in some dropdown, for use when there gets to be so many tabs that the titles disappear. An automatically maintained folder in the tab or bookmarks bar would be perfect.

      I've spent the last week editing and copy-pasting between several dozen Google Docs and spreadsheets, and both these features were sorely missed.

    5. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Actually, that picture was taken January 21, 2014 -- I took it :) .

      CAP === 'seducer'

    6. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by AbRASiON · · Score: 1

      Firefox handles duplicate tab opening flawlessly. At least it used to wth the plugins I had installed.

      The pull to tab (my name for it) was perfect. Go collect the dupe tab and pull it to the location where you're now song for it.

      Listing all your tabs used to be an add-on for Firefox called "tabs menu"

      Some of these add-ons work for Chrome but unfortunately, they're not exactly as good as they were in ff

    7. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If a tab supporting piece of software can't handle 100s of tabs on a modern computer, then there's something seriously wrong with that software. Firefox can at least open over 2000 tabs, but all operations do grind to a near halt when you do so. They shouldn't. The GUI is too heavily linked into the data layer, same with all the other browsers and they've all made poor/non-scalable algorithmic choices.

      When each tab is 20mb and you have 64GB of memory, the computer should be able to handle around 3000 with little noticeable slowdown.

    8. Re:Number 1 tab hoarder here.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You need over a thousand tabs to be an extreme tab hoarder. Consider yourself as simply a heavy tab user.

  9. Silly by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Task bars and window managers have already solved this a long time ago

  10. Put tabs on the side by CastrTroy · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I want an option to put tabs on the side, along the left or right. We all have widescreen monitors, but very few pages actually need the full width of the monitor. We should have the option of putting tabs vertically along the side of the monitor to make more efficient use of space.

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    1. Re:Put tabs on the side by umberleigh · · Score: 1

      Switch to Vivaldi. Same Chromium rendering engine, but with sane and configurable tab management. You can have vertical tabs on the left or right, or tabs along the top or bottom of the window if you want.

    2. Re:Put tabs on the side by Paul+Neubauer · · Score: 2

      Have you tried or considered the Vivaldi browser? Putting the tabs on the side (either side) is an option.

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    3. Re:Put tabs on the side by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Go moan at that prick Ben for killing the chances of a sidebar API. (I did, and got banned for hurt fee-fees)
      Side-tabs in chrome was great when it was there. Ben is one of those kinds of pricks that ruins every project. Always wanted to prune stuff for no reason. Then throwing rank around.

      The only realistic way to do that now is an extension that creates a pop-up window for tab management.
      Tabs Outliner is the only decent one there. The rest are shit.
      TO lets you suspend tabs so they aren't actively using memory, but still in the list. I wish they could have an option for this automatically, but eh. (I might even still modify it to add that feature in)
      You can also drag and drop tabs all around, nest them, add notes, separators, etc.
      This lets you organize your tabs very easily. I keep a separate section for active tabs, projects, etc., and then another for inactive "read later" tabs (AKA bookmarks)
      It's very handy. I don't even use Bookmarks anymore. This removes the need for it. It's a much better middle-ground between tabs and bookmarks. It has less mental overhead and is faster to work with than bookmarks, and you don't end up with horrible tab bloat because you can easily see at a glance the entire tab list with titles. (well, I guess that depends on how wide your window is)
      I'm short of 10k "tabs" in it just now. All organized in to groups like "media", "news sites", "communities", "lewd shit", "personal projects", then some of the other interesting things I have saved over the years.
      It is nowhere near perfect though. It can be improved massively. But it's still pretty good.
      A very common annoyance is tabs opening at the lowest recent tab down the list, or the bottom of the list. WHY?!
      That's Mozilla levels of retarded when middle-click opened tabs way the fuck to the right of the tab strip! I sure hope it doesn't still do that today.

    4. Re:Put tabs on the side by sunami88 · · Score: 1

      I want an option to put tabs on the side, along the left or right. We all have widescreen monitors, but very few pages actually need the full width of the monitor. We should have the option of putting tabs vertically along the side of the monitor to make more efficient use of space.

      Yes! This a thousand times! One of the main reasons I am so entrenched in Pale Moon is because it's the only browser I know of that still has the feature*. It's essential to me, particularly when you can group them, expand/collapse groups, etc.


      * Unless I'm mistaken Tree Style Tabs was an XUL (?) extension, and died when Mozilla *slight eye twitch* went to Chrome-style addons.

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    5. Re:Put tabs on the side by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I seem to remember hearing about some widget that lets you view a bunch of selectable items stacked vertically...

      Ah, yes. It's called a "menu"!

    6. Re:Put tabs on the side by mea2214 · · Score: 1

      Tree Style Tabs plugin does this for Firefox. Been using that for a decade now. Wish Chrome had a similar plugin.

    7. Re:Put tabs on the side by theCoder · · Score: 1

      I'm also a big TST fan, and I've been sitting at FF 56 for a while because of incompatibility. But just recently I downloaded FF63 and was able to get TST working in it. It has been ported to the Web Extensions API as a sidebar. However, there are a few customizations you have to do manually to make it work really correctly. To get the full experience, you have to add the following to chrome/userChrome.css in your profile directory:

      /* Hide horizontal tabs at the top of the window */
      #main-window[tabsintitlebar="true"]:not([extradragspace="true"]) #TabsToolbar {
        opacity: 0;
        pointer-events: none;
      }
      #main-window:not([tabsintitlebar="true"]) #TabsToolbar {
          visibility: collapse !important;
      }
       
      /* Hide title for only Tree Style Tab sidebar */
      #sidebar-box[sidebarcommand="treestyletab_piro_sakura_ne_jp-sidebar-action"] #sidebar-header {
        display: none;
      }

      I also went into the preferences for TST and to the advanced section to enable the CSS marking unread tabs in red text and then also added this:

      /* no need for "x" to close, just middle click */
      .closebox {
        display: none;
      }

      None of these came from myself, but from various Internet sources. The userChrome.css came from links TST gives you after installing. Removing the "x" came from a google search (I didn't save so cannot reference).

      So, it takes a bit of work, but you can get tree style tab working in newer Firefox versions. The only real question is why tree style tabs aren't the default.

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  11. Someone help me out here by OzPeter · · Score: 2

    Why do people have hundreds of open tabs at a time? I honestly can't imagine the use case for this.

    Sure I have a large collection of bookmarks, but at most I only have a handful of tabs open at any time (any more and its because I didn't close a tab after I finished using it) and I know I cannot focus on more than a couple of things at a time.

    Should I just be yelling at clouds and telling the kids to keep off my lawn?

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    1. Re:Someone help me out here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wrong database, grouped in [open] windows+tabs. This, instead of something else(?).

    2. Re:Someone help me out here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting

      For me it's usually because I'm working on something specific so I'll have maybe a dozen tabs related to that project that I flip through. Then I get another project but I don't want to lose my place with the previous project so now there are a dozen more tabs. Then another thing comes up that I have to work on, dozen more tabs.

      As I complete projects I do close out the tabs but still at any given time I may have half a dozen things I'm working on and each one has a dozen tabs. Some projects take years to complete so those tabs just hang around.

      Firefox's old tab groups was not perfect but pretty good compared to anything else. I could just have a group for each project with an easy overview page that let me move tabs around or switch to a specific project. I can't believe they removed that functionality. Idiots. I'm waiting for some dumbass millennial to have a revolutionary "new idea" that is the exact same thing.

    3. Re:Someone help me out here by OzPeter · · Score: 1

      For me it's usually because I'm working on something specific so I'll have maybe a dozen tabs related to that project that I flip through. Then I get another project but I don't want to lose my place with the previous project so now there are a dozen more tabs. Then another thing comes up that I have to work on, dozen more tabs.

      Is your work web-centric, or is it just that all of your reference materials are web-centric? (FWIW I work with actual desktop programs with very little web related work flows - only when I need to look up a specific vendors product from time to time etc)

      But it seems like you have a set of well defined tabs for each project that you work on. So why can't you just do on a per project basis "save bookmarks to all open tabs", close them down and do an "Open all bookmarks to new tabs" when you need them again type action? I use Safari and it has this functionality built in.

      And what happens when your computer/browser/whatever crashes and burns? How do you easily recover if you don't have the bookmarks to the tabs all neatly stored away? Manually opening 100's of tabs would suck big time.

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    4. Re:Someone help me out here by OzPeter · · Score: 1

      D'oh .. Only after replying I understood your comments about Firefox's previous functionality.

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    5. Re: Someone help me out here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If only there was some way to mark a page, like in a book.

    6. Re:Someone help me out here by hackertourist · · Score: 1

      I don't like bookmarks. Because they are not visible on screen, in my experience they become write-only memory: write bookmark, never think about it again.

      I've got a bunch of long-term projects going on, each with a number of tabs. Having them as tabs serves as a constant reminder of unfinished business, which is something I need. Maybe this is a flaw in how my brain works, but I haven't found a better workaround than this.

    7. Re:Someone help me out here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      But then you have different windows for each project with their own tab grouping and not 100 tabs in one window right?

    8. Re:Someone help me out here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Back when I used Netscape Navigator, I would set my home page to my bookmarks file. That way they would always be right there whenever I opened a new window.

      Nowadays I mostly use Safari, and Apple keeps its bookmarks in a .plist file, so I can't use that trick.

    9. Re:Someone help me out here by Bite+The+Pillow · · Score: 1

      Talk to management about how getting interrupted makes projects take longer. You will find that is true. Then get a prioritization system in place. And set a maximum of 2 active projects, no more interruptions till one of them is complete.

      That's a far better solution.

    10. Re:Someone help me out here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That is exactly my situation. I already have millions of bookmarks. The purpose of a bookmark is when I need to find something again, I have it bookmarked. A bookmark does not remind me that I need to DO something. If you have stuff you need to do, you don't put it into a file cabinet and close the drawer.

    11. Re:Someone help me out here by houghi · · Score: 1

      The most I have open is 50 or so YouTube videos I want to see one by one. Watch one, close it, go to the next.

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    12. Re:Someone help me out here by Fly+Swatter · · Score: 2

      Some people once had desks completely covered with stacks of papers, even if they weren't relevant to the current task. These are those people, but now in the digital age.

    13. Re:Someone help me out here by dissy · · Score: 1

      Is your work web-centric, or is it just that all of your reference materials are web-centric? (FWIW I work with actual desktop programs with very little web related work flows - only when I need to look up a specific vendors product from time to time etc)

      I'm not the same person you replied to, but I follow a very close usage that just works best for me.
      Especially when researching something new, I both want to learn all of my options as well as be able to follow the breadcrumb trail back to a point if some options turn out dead ends.

      Hundreds of tabs is not, to me, ever a persistent state of things, but a given project or idea may both be fairly long running (weeks to months) and I do tend to have more than one in progress at a time (for example, days to weeks for something for work, and perhaps months for something personal as time and interest allows)

      Also worth noting on your original question, you may find plenty of other peoples use cases here, but that does not mean even a single one necessarily map to a use case for you.
      If you are looking possible improvements for yourself, well right on I hope for the best.
      But for anyone that's been around the block, you have very likely found the best flow for yourself already.

      Different people just work different ways. There may be an idea here or there you can sprinkle into your way of doing it, but I doubt you'll find some amazingly different usage that will completely change how you go about things.

      And what happens when your computer/browser/whatever crashes and burns? How do you easily recover if you don't have the bookmarks to the tabs all neatly stored away? Manually opening 100's of tabs would suck big time.

      Most browsers recover tabs, including Chrome. This is not often a problem anymore.
      But similarly, most browsers only store the "last visited" date of a bookmark.
      If you are trying to find your way back to a point in time and there is more than one option, I've found opening even just 4-5 bookmarks to see if they were it, updates that timestamp and now I've totally lost my timeline of events for the next search!

      Suddenly those 5 bookmarks jump forward to the date I check them with no record of them being in the middle of the others made. To me it seems like opening many hundreds of bookmarks, in the exact proper order, to update them to be again in chronological order, is far more useless work.
      I just conclude bookmarks don't work for me if I don't sort and categorize them, and I only feel that worthwhile to archive and keep the ones I intended to revisit.
      Tabs work better for me to keep things in order for a more immediate grouping of time - typically the very process that results in what pages and info I want to bookmark as archived results.

    14. Re: Someone help me out here by basscomm · · Score: 1

      I tried that, but a lot of webmasters got mad at me for dog-earing their pages

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    15. Re:Someone help me out here by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      Why do people have hundreds of open tabs at a time? I honestly can't imagine the use case for this.
      I open for every search a new window, and then open interesting search results in new tabs. It is quite easy to have more than 100 tabs open that way. I probably have at the moment 15 youtube tabs open ...

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    16. Re:Someone help me out here by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      And what happens when your computer/browser/whatever crashes and burns? How do you easily recover if you don't have the bookmarks to the tabs all neatly stored away?
      On Mac OS the browsers restore all tabs automatically.

      Manually opening 100's of tabs would suck big time.
      Automatic recovering of all tabs is also a pain. After all: they usually get all reloaded and not loaded from the cash.

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    17. Re:Someone help me out here by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      websites annoyingly keep resetting links, so if there are two links I want to follow as related pages, I have to essentially fork the tab.

  12. Tab Hoarders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    One of the few groups of people worse than vegans and crossfitters.

    1. Re:Tab Hoarders by fibonacci8 · · Score: 1

      Or corporations, or churches. When the group is so broad and vaguely defined, it's becomes easy to misattribute the bad qualities of some the members of the group (people) to the group itself (not people).

      • "I've met a vegan that won't shut up about being vegan" -> vegans won't shut up about being vegan
      • "This one guy/gal won't stop trying to promote $X fitness program on social media" -> crossfitters are spammers
      • "X people in this corporation were convicted of fraud/larceny/insider trading" -> X people in any corporation are getting away with it, they just haven't been caught yet
      • "Catholic priests are convicted pedophiles" -> Priests are pedophiles

      These are the sort of results people come up with when they don't understand how implication works. It's highly effective in politics. Five people may know about one immigrant that committed a violent crime. They spread the word, and since it came from five valid sources, clearly it must be about five different people (a false implication, but easy to make). They a get a law passed to tighten the definition of immigrant status. As a result many people who hadn't committed a crime before the new law are now "illegal" ex post facto. Then you get people running campaigns with platforms against "illegals". It's an easy to follow con job with an enormous paper trail. But it still fools enough people to work.

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    2. Re: Tab Hoarders by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Whoooooooosh

  13. Widescreen red herring by yurikhan · · Score: 1

    You're using your widescreen monitor wrong. Tile two windows side-by-side. Read documentation in one half, edit code in the other.

    Of course, in that configuration, the only reasonable solution for tab hoarders is (a) grouping into several windows, and (b) multi-row tab bars.

    1. Re:Widescreen red herring by CastrTroy · · Score: 1

      That's what my second monitor is for.

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    2. Re:Widescreen red herring by yurikhan · · Score: 1

      Well, my second monitor is for one more two-window split.

  14. Nah, try Tree Tabs instead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tabs with Sub Tabs, which hide under their parent tab when un-focused.
    Having a scrollable strip of tabs is just unwieldy.

  15. Jesus fuck by DarkRookie2 · · Score: 1

    Bookmark and close your damn tabs.
    Wanna know why your system is running slow, you have 20+ tabs opened.

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    1. Re:Jesus fuck by angel'o'sphere · · Score: 1

      My system is not running slow.
      About 20% CPU usage, 2770 threads, 271 processes.
      Probably 200 of them are browser tabs.

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  16. Tabs on bottom by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'd like to be able to choose between tabs on top and tabs on bottom.

  17. wow Google Devs are SOOOO clever by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    you just gotta stand in awe
    I'm lost for words

  18. I want a quick temporary "read later" list by raymorris · · Score: 2

    Personally I use bookmarks for long-term things, pages I expect to still want a year later. The bookmarks UI is appropriate for that type of use.

    I tend to leave tabs open for things I'm likely to want to look at later today, or this week. I end up with a lot of tabs open, which isn't ideal.

    What I'd like to have would be something like bookmarks but quicker to add, and especially remove, things from the "read later" list. Just have an X next to the entry so removing it is one click just like closing a tab. Maybe it would just keep the last 100 unread pages things dropping old items I've already returned to to keep the list manageable.

  19. try Vivaldi by gDLL · · Score: 1

    it has tabs on bottom

  20. TAB MIX PLUS for chrome.... by gDLL · · Score: 1

    multi-row tab bar, i'm waiting :)

  21. I'm still on Firefox 56 exclusively because of TMP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Tab Mix Plus multi-row tabs are the best thing ever. Add in a closed tab list and the ability to have new tabs open at the end of the rows instead of beside the tab you're currently viewing and a great session manager and it will make you feel neutered going to Quantum and beyond. Unfortunately, Mozilla doesn't give a shit about TMP and won't provide the needed WebExtensions framework to make it viable on Quantum.

  22. Useless feature by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Chrome is designed to use all your memory and CPU long before you need scrolling tabs.

  23. Tree Style Tabs by labnet · · Score: 1

    This is the reason I use Firefox.
    I do electronic design and often have 100 tabs open.
    Chrome had experimental vertical tabs then some dweeb developer decided no one needed them.
    Do it now. Type in tree style tabs into FF and live a more productive life!
    Not my windows start menu also love as a vertical tab, which makes sense since Hollywood forced us all to 16:9

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  24. Re: 30+ Concurrent tabs (Steve Gibson feature) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Steve Gibson, well known security expert featured on âoeSecurity Nowâ podcast, has been asking for this feature for years! Heâ(TM)ll be so happy heâ(TM)ll spin right!

  25. I have you all beat by ayesnymous · · Score: 1

    Not only do I have multiple windows open, each with anywhere from 10-80 tabs open, but one of those tabs is a "Restore previous session" tab, which if I clicked on would open another several windows, each with multiple tabs... And one of THOSE tabs would be a "Restore previous session" tab... It's recursive for me.

  26. Re:I'm still on Firefox 56 exclusively because of by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Multi-row tabs is a mess, vertical/tree style tab is better and supported on quantum.