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by lightfooted 1867 days ago
I’d like to try this. What browser do you use? I see that it’s a feature for Vivaldi and I also see a Chrome extension.
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Not OP, but Tree Style Tabs is for Firefox.
Thank you so much for sharing! This is a game changer - I'd been using two separate windows and manually dragging things around like a noob.
Now you also probably see why many of us prefer Firefox.

And: this might be hard to believe but it was much better before - extension wise.

I switched to Firefox for Tree Style Tabs.
I only stay with Firefox for tree style tabs.

I think, the day chrome makes TST possible, is the day Firefox loses a large fraction of it's remaining power users.

All except us who will cling as to not give Google a way to make ad blocking impossible. And for me it is actually not about the ads, it is about tracking power; about should decide what runs or not on my hardware.

I'd recommend more people think like this.

For me it is a small sacrifice for now at least.

Is this meaningfully different from the Firefox implementation?

I’m interested in trying.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tree-style-tab/oic...

Window-based task grouping (where that's possible) is ... somewhat tenable.

It's not available on Android / Mobile, of course, but on any windowing desktop OS it's an option.

Firefox + Tree Style Tabs is still worlds ahead of this.

> Firefox + Tree Style Tabs is still worlds ahead of this.

imho the pinacle of tab-ui was pre-quantum firefox with tabkitv2.

tree style tabs is roughly on par with what opera delivered in the early 2000's or nowadays vivaldi.

I was probably using that, when it was around.

Good, and possibly better than today's TST, but still short of my goal(s). And that's without its instability (ISTR that crashing a fair bit.)

I'd like to be able to:

- Search tabs (by metadata).

- Search tabs (by content).

- Organise tabs by task / project. Including assigning open tabs to tasks, and possibly to multiple tasks.

- A sense of utility vs. info tabs. (Pinned tabs ... sort of does this. Examples might be webmail, chat app, or tools like a dictionary or other data-lookup page.)

- Arbitrarily grouping a set of tabs based on specifiable criteria, or UI-based multi-select.

- Taking actions based on those groupings (close, combine under a single tree, bookmark, print, save, etc.)

I'd have to think more on what sorts of things I'd be doing, but Web as Workflow is a major component of this. Current browser design seems entirely antithetical to this.

I made https://cretz.github.io/doogie/ to solve this, but I don't really maintain it (I just build it for myself on each new Chromium) and it doesn't work on Mac.
That looks awesome. I'm going to try it out. Do extensions work on it?
No. It's also a bit buggy and you'll want to compile with latest CEF yourself.
https://histre.com/ does tree-style web history visualization. This is a personal knowledge graph app I'm working on.
I highly recommend Tabs Outliner, a Chrome extension
A very pale shadow of TST.
I use Bookmark OS which lets me organize tab sessions in a folder tree structure. Worth checking out