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> Wow this tab madness... I want one row of tabs, and I want to see the page title on the tabs. I get an itch when I get enough tabs that they just become little favicons so I can't see what the tab is doing (By that time there is a 99% chance it's garbage and I don't need it- but now I don't know!).

I have the same feeling, but judging by all the others keeping hundreds of tabs open I feel like I am missing out on a big reason.

Could anyone explain why they keep all these tabs open? None of the sites I frequent do I care about page load times, plus often I would want to refresh for latest news anyways. Most documentation sites are very fast to load. I guess I could see SPA apps that auto update as being something to keep open..

Do you just type into the address bar and switch tabs based on url or tab title thus not caring if you can see the titles or not?




You've got the question wrong. I could say an open tab works like a bookmark without having to organize and delete the bookmarks, but then I have to organize the tabs. Bookmark management is very crude in Firefox without add ons, so I have a tree view in either the tree style tabs or in the bookmark manager, without much of a difference.

But then the pressing question is, why can't most of the tabs not just be closed? Because I haven't read them yet.

So the real question is, why do I open them in the first place and I'm shy of an answer.


I actually like Firefox's bookmarks with tags. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/categorizing-bookmarks-...

When I bookmark something I add various tags to it (b/c Ill never remember the title) and then can search by tags.

Anywho :)




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