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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.

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  1. 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. .........

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  2. 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 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. 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: 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.

    2. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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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  6. 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.