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by littlekey 873 days ago
Anyone else think the whole idea of "tab management" tools is crazy? The way to manage tabs is to close them.
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Or filtering and searching. Anything you can have a large number of should have an obvious filtering & searching UI. After how many decades of UI are we still so behind on basic usability design.
This is a feature in Chrome today.
If you don't limit yourself to only the closing one part of management, you might see the reason behind the craze
And if you'd like to read it later, bookmark it! You can organize bookmarks into groups, give them custom names, and they don't require the browser to be constantly hoarding multiple gigabytes of RAM.
Neither do the tabs, autosleep/unload exists, you know

And bookmark organization is worse since it's a separate UI breaking your mental connection to the physical layout that you spend most of the time with