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Thousands of users wanted it, so Firefox delivered it. Tab Groups are now live to help you declutter and stay organized while browsing.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 hours ago (5 children)

Why people like 50 tabs at once. I can't understand.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

They don't know how bookmarks work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

Bookmarks are great if I remember what I want is there. Usually bookmarking is like putting a piece of paper in cabinet that I will never open.. A tab is leaving the paper on my desk for me that I will rediscover.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I used to feel the same way. But recently, I just don't have time to 'finish' each tab/section. When I was younger with more time, I could.

For example, the first section of my browser is several self hosted apps I'm currently implementing. So, I don't want to lose the relevant forum posts/documentation.

The second section is some articles I couldn't finish reading.

The third section is something I'm researching for my work.

Fourth are media tabs, some YouTube videos I haven't finished, a music tab, etc etc

So basically, if I had time to read the articles, one section closed. Or finished my implementation, etc.

The hard part this is this is every week. Always new projects, work or personal. Always new studies to read. Always new vids. You get the point.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 hour ago

to hide thier porn tabs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

adhd. I'm considering making at alert for when my browser uses so much tabs that I'm almost out of RAM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

The only way to keep my ADHD at bay when I'm on the computer is to be radical with my tabs. Don't need it in the next hour? That's definitely a bookmark, not a tab. I configured my browser to not save tabs between sessions so I always start clean. I'd long be dead otherwise, suffocated by my own browser tabs.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I storing YouTube links that I would watch next time

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Text document

"Save to watch later"

Bookmark

There are options

[–] [email protected] 1 points 53 minutes ago

You clearly do not have ADHD. Those are where things go to be forgotten forever.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Yeah, that is just asking for data to be forgotten. The functional difference is:

You have your browser with let's say 30 tabs. You can't forget what you need to, because they are always open. So to catch up, you have to close out your tabs or lose everything.

Compared to adding something to a list, which requires you to manually go back and remember what you needed to do. But if you have 100 things to every week, and those constantly get added on, you will always lose data to return to if you're not actively tracking it, hence the tabs.

It's a very simple concept. A lot of people have a lot less time to do all the things they need to during the week. People on their computers all day, or with less of a workload, can't comprehend this without opening their mind to a different perspective.

I know, because I used to feel the same way about people who had 20+ tabs. But at that point in time, the thought of not having enough time to get to everything and adding 50+ things to do every week (meaning 200 - 400 new tabs every week) was foreign to me, and your suggestion makes it quite literally impossible without extra work involved, if you care to actually complete everything you wanted.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Text document - very lack of quality features Others - just place where I would forget them forever

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

So youll just leave them where you would forget them forever instead?

What's the functional difference between a tab bar and bookmark bar for this specific purpose other than the former taking more resources?

Genuine question because I cannot comprehend

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

I can't tell if you're serious or not. A bookmark bar will never be able to easily contain everything you need. It requires manual review (expanding the bar, manually browsing every bookmark and re-opening tabs [and you're suggesting to bookmark 50+ pages every week.. impossible]). So not only are you implying it would be better to add 2 - 3 additional steps to the workflow, but also you are missing the very functional fact that a bookmark bar is a lot less accessible than a scrollable tab bar with an instantly opened window with what you were working on.

Tabs also remember where you are on the page. I read long studies, and implement complex projects. Bookmarks will re-open every tab at the start of the page, not word 600. There are just too many reasons as to why tabs are more functional than bookmarks and saving data to lists. A big part of it is the size of the persons workflow, someone with a smaller workflow may not be able to see how impactful those additional steps in the process are.