[mga226]

It's interesting to think about the different ways I use tabs and how they might be better served. For example, I will often open a new tab to create a sort of "checkpoint", resulting in 5 tabs that represent different points in time in a browsing session. Other times I will open 5 pages that are analogous to each other in order to compare (for example, 5 similar products on Amazon). Other times it's a method of "forking" a browsing session into several different paths, while keeping the parent node in its own tab.

Not really proposing solutions here, but it does make tabs look a bit clunky.

Side note: For the last few months, I've been using a Chrome plugin that prevents me from opening more than a predetermined number of tabs at a time. Otherwise I just end up with 45 tabs open.

[slashnull]

You seem much more methodic than me. I use tabs like Haskell uses memory. (the implication that my tabs are immutable is intentional)

I would quite like to be able to group tabs together, collapse groups, move them between instances, tile 'em, bookmark a group to open it later...

[projectdelphai]

You can kind of do this with firefox's panorama tab groups. It's not perfect, but it's pretty amazing nonetheless

[mga226]

To be fair, this is an entirely retrospective analysis. I'd never thought about it until today.

[nobodysfool2]

you should check out onetab. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/onetab/chphlpgkkbo...

it closes all your tabs, gives them to you in a single tab for you to save, open all, or open one at a time. pinned tabs can be saved.

[mga226]

I tried something like this a while ago. Never really took, but might be worth another look. Thanks for the tip.

[spolu]

That's a very intersting analysis!