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> I have been asked to defend my habit many times, so here it is: I use open tabs as a volatile bookmark.

There's a Firefox extension called "toomanytabs" that tries to improve the "volatile bookmark" experience. Frankly, I think it should be called "notenoughtabs".

Btw, I have found that Opera can reliably handle 400+ open tabs simultaneously. The downside is that it's not Firefox. And Chrome took out vertical tabs in 2008 or something. bleh.



FYI, Chrome now has stacked tabs and tab grouping.


Thanks, I've been waiting for this. It's still experimental (under "about:flags"). Stacked tabs are great, but unfortunately "tab grouping" is not that, it's just a feature that makes it possible to select several tabs at once?!

With real tab grouping in Chrome, including a feature to only load tabs when selected, I could finally make the switch from Firefox and the great "TabGroupsManager" addon.

Unfortunately, Chrome dev team decided that opening all tabs on startup is a good thing and marked intelligent lazy loading of tabs as "won't fix". I cannot find one good argument against this feature, unless it's extremely difficult technically (which is unlikely).

Source: http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=105666


I've found that Opera crashes too often with 150+ tabs, often even at startup. What I would like Opera to have is a similar option to Firefox to let tabs remain dormant until you click on them. That might make me switch back.




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