Firefox Tab Candy Alpha 189
Nunavut writes in with a note from TechCrunch on Aza Raskin's latest Mozilla goodie, Tab Candy. "Be sure to watch the video for a full overview — from the looks of it, it seems as if Tab Candy is sort of like Apple's Expose feature mixed with their Spaces feature, both of which are baked into OS X. For those who don't use a Mac, basically these features allow you to zoom out and get a bird's-eye-view of all your windows (or tabs, in this case) that are open — and you can also arrange open windows (or again, tabs, in this case) in certain spaces so they're clumped together. This allows you to more easily find what you're looking for with so many tabs open." Here's Raskin's blog post, the download link, and the FAQ.
Re:Open? (Score:4, Informative)
Tree Style Tabs (Score:5, Informative)
The "Tree Style Tabs [mozilla.org]" add on is great for managing your browsing. It gives your tabs context, lets you collapse groups of tabs and move tabs from one group to another. That, and having the tabs vertically arranged lets you have far more on screen at once and make better use of a widescreen monitor. Solving many of the problems addressed by Tab Candy.
I'm really surprised more people don't use it. It's the one thing now preventing me from switching to Chrome.
Re:Open? (Score:3, Informative)
Thus speaks a man who has never experienced the addictive tab-craziness of TV Tropes [tvtropes.org] ;)
I prefer tabsbookmarks (Score:4, Informative)
I've never used bookmarks properly. I just type in the topmost URL and then navigate to the page I want. Terrible, I know. There are many different ways to use the web, I've personally seen a lot of the following with friends and family:
One problem I have with bookmarks is that it's so 'open' and available to people to browse. I wouldn't want my bookmarks to be seen by everyone. What I want is a 'super lightweight tab' architecture where a tab actually represents the bookmark and only loads if I click it, which definitely beats loading 100s of tabs on startup...
I switch between browsers and computers so much that keeping my bookmarks sycned would be too hard to be worth it. A few years ago I was more of a explorative surfer, now I tend to limit myself to very few daily websites and go from there.
Re:No preview for me (Score:1, Informative)
ctrl-shift-p ftw!
Re:Reinventing the window? (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Open? (Score:3, Informative)
Am I the only one that opens up tabs to read the content and then closes the tab after doing so? I don't really see why someone would have like 20+ tabs constantly just sitting open.
You're just lacking good examples of things to keep "permanently open".
"tabs" that I never close on my ipod touch, my ipad, or firefox:
Local NWS weather radar direct link (radar.weather.gov/Thumbs/???.png where ??? is your local three letter code that has nothing to do with IACO airport codes)
Local NWS 7 day forecast for my home, a rather complicated (bookmarked) URL.
A vhfdx.net ham radio "activity map" for the 6 meter band on my continent, at least during Es season (which probably makes zero sense to non-amateur radio operators, but trust me its quite handy to see at a glance if anythings going on).
A "club news/club announcement" blog that is updated roughly daily.
My personal "feed on feeds" web based RSS aggregator.
At work on firefox for half a decade or so, I have always had a tab open on RT, and a couple internal apps.
Could I just use bookmarks? Yeah, but thats clicky clicky clicky hell and since I scan all those pages every time I do "anything" why not leave them open? Its sort of a "cache" between me and my bookmarks.
As far as having 20 open tabs, I use LRU expiration, if there is a tab I don't look at "all the time" then I stop leaving it open... Some people are the digital equivalent of hoarders.
Re:Here we go again... (Score:1, Informative)
Try midori.
Re:Basic tab managment features missing... (Score:2, Informative)
Undo closed tab is there: Ctrl-shift-t
Also, in History menu: Recently Closed Tabs submenu.
Re:Tree Style Tabs (Score:3, Informative)
chrome --enable-vertical-tabs