[elashri]

I do work in physics research so I open on average 20-30 arxiv and research papers per any session. This is combined with the usual searches for SO and docs (looking at you CUDA docs) which would be a lot of tabs for any gives session.

I used Firefox developer edition (it was better performance that vanilla Firefox for my m1 mac and this is just a feeling not backed up with any data) and now is using zen browser. It is a huge upgrade, now I have workspaces, split tabs and vertical tabs. All while still using Firefox and ublock origin.

I think this made tabs management good experience but ths most important factor is that I trained myself to really hate having tabs that I don't know which means that once I get past 10 tabs that browser starts to hide some information I got annoyed and then go close some.

But I really feel like zen browser is everything I want in a browser so far. I tried arc which is close but it is chromium based and it is resource monster and also closed source and required account to use.

One other useful thing is that once I got used to use my selfhosted linkding to actually bookmark things I want to explore, this helped with the tendency to use open tabs as things to read later.

[TomK32]

A simple 1L machine with portainer on it and connected by wireguard is what I run my self-hosted stuff at home. Five minutes later I have my own linkding. Thanks for the tip.

[TomK32]

When importing existing Firefox bookmarks make sure to export those into the html file as linkding won't process the json backup file that Firefox can produce.

[TomK32]

It won't do anything with the folders though. That's a pitty. I love putting my bookmarks into folders.

[elashri]

I am not sure if this still works but this python script [1] helped me when I moved bookmarks from Firefox to linkding long time ago. It converted folders to tags. Linkding doesn't have folders concept and rely on tabs.

[1] https://github.com/ulixxe/Netscape-Bookmark-File-Parser

[TomK32]

Yeah, read a github issue on the topic, looks like this won't change. Tag with some spacer like `:` would be great, but the app would have to treat them differently from regular tags to be useful to me. Or maybe I'll make a pull request :-)