I have lots of pinned tabs (in Chrome they are in tab groups so I can easily open and collapse them). I use them mostlu for different kinds of shared task logs, and also server checking.
And I definitely prefer them at the top because tabs on the side (like in Edge) are basically illegible!
Something not questioned is the use of Groups. I currently have three groups of pinned tabs in ungoogled chromium that contain a lot of longer YT videos (30 tabs), synopses of films i want to see (40), and podcasts i occasionally check out (10), and yet i still have 25+ tabs open all the time as well :-(
Firefox. I try to keep number of open tabs to a minimum which saves clutter and resources. The count grows and falls but rarely more than 10. For crying out loud, people, I see so many browsers with the same page open in multiple tabs because they don’t bother to use the one that’s already open, or close one after using.
Don’t really understand the pinned tab concept. Don’t care. Sorry.
Rarely have more than 4 tabs open. Mostly for comparisons. Will close them as soon as I finish.
I stick with Safari because of how it works with iCloud across devices. I bookmark and organize in folders any site that gets repeated visits then use the auto complete function in Safaris location bar to quickly load the page.
I’ve seen colleagues who keep dozens of open tabs. They often can’t find what they want without a lot of clicking. My method seems more efficient.
I have just three pinned Brave Browser tabs, for monitoring my off-grid solar photovoltaic system and detailed weather forecasts that help with energy planning. I also generally have about a dozen tabs holding news articles opened from RSS feeds. For work, I have five dozen open tabs in a dozen Firefox tab containers associated with different online accounts.
Though I use tab containers extensively — mainly to log into the same systems with different identities — I have never had success using tab groups. Instead of groups, i simply use different windows.
I have very few bookmarks. The URLs of websites that i visit regularly are held by my password manager (KeePassXC).
I currently have 149 Safari tabs open, clustered in particular windows, and no I will not get back to them all (probably).
Plus I have 329 BBEdit files open, clustered in particular windows.
I also have NetNewsWire with way too many feeds (so I’m pretty brutal with ⌘+K)
My main productivity goes into the Victoria Folk Music Society website and monthly newsletters.
I pretty much live with my MacBook Pro open on my lap-desk.
Vivaldi offers a wide range of options for tabs. One can position them at the top, bottom, and left or right sidebars. Also supports pinned tabs, tab stacking, and optionally frees up memory from inactive tabs. The number of choices is almost overwhelming!
Re. Vertical tabs, I used to use Omniweb, and for cross-browser bookmark management an app called URL Manager Pro.
Now I’m partial to Chrome, as much as anything because of a few excellent extensions.
For taming Chrome tabs I’ve been using Workona.
Although I have both newer and older machines, almost all of my Web work is done on a Mojave system with Firefox 115.esr. (Safari is rarely used.) That offers me five different ways to reach a known URL. (DuckDuckGo is my primary search engine for unknown URLs.)
With this array of options, I see no need to migrate to a newer browser on my newer machine, where I would have to change my habits. As it is, I do plenty of learning of other things in other ways to keep my brain active.
I do have over 100 tabs open, but (using Edge) they are all set to sleep when inactive, and almost all of them are in Tab Groups which are colour-coded. This means that less than 15 items in all are visible unless I expand one of the Groups. I’ve experimented with tabs on the side of the window and prefer them on the top (where they have been for most of my time using a browser)
When you copy data how do you select it:
click & drag;
screenshot (partial?);
Shortcut: Capture text from screen;
a Quick Keys automation script;
other…?
I use the Duck Duck Go browser more often than not, and I quite enjoy flaming out when I’m done, which closes all tabs and clears cookies and etc. So no, I really don’t need a tab management system.
From the voting results so far, it looks like a better way to organize too many open tabs may be a solution in search of a problem. Of course, Tidbits readers are probably much more organized about their browsing behavior than the average Joe. Personally, I do most of my web browsing on my iPhone—not because it offers the best browsing experience but because it’s always right by my side; but when I have to do anything online that really matters, I always use my computer.
Funnily enough, I use Vivaldi as my primary browser. I do make use of a lot of its customisation features, and yes there are loads of them!
Latest Dia version now includes the side-bar.
At least a step in a good direction, I wonder what else they will port over and end up with Dia being more like Arc in the end?
I absolutely love Arc by the way and I’m still using it. I will continue to do so but I’m keeping an eye on Zen browser which pretty much looks like an open source arc copy.
The old fashioned way. Select text (click/drag). Then copy (CMD-C) and paste (CMD-V).
No, it doesn’t capture the full layout of the page, but it usually captures the important text. If I need to go back later for that, I can revisit the page. (I’ll often copy/paste the URLs into the document I’m using for notes, in order to get back later).
Woo, thanks for letting me know—mine hadn’t updated yet, and they aren’t being transparent about changes like they were with Arc.
Dia getting vertical tabs is a good step in the right direction, and its pinned tabs work properly, but without folders and workspaces, it still doesn’t match up to Arc.
It is very weird how they’re approaching Arc’s features but have never talked about what they’re planning to bring back. If Dia incorporates most of Arc’s features on an optional basis, that will be fine, but if that turns out to be the case, it will be an even more massive marketing fail on The Browser Company’s part, since angering the entire Arc user base will have been completely unnecessary.
Closing open tabs is such an automatic process for me that I don’t need the browser to manage that for me – on MacOS. (I do make liberal use of pinned tabs, and now that Dio has introduced a sidebar, I hope that pinned tabs come next in that browser.)
On the iPhone, I really liked the Arc browser concept of closing tabs after a certain amount of time. Otherwise, it’s back to my practice of occasionally sweeping through and closing all the abandoned tabs that accumulated over time. That’s what I have to do in Safari and the Google app on iPhone.
When it became clear that Arc browser development wasn’t moving forward, I stopped using their iPhone app, but I miss the tab management aspect of it.
My response is specific to Safari on this iPad. Not sure how many tabs are open on my Mac, and I’m not near it right now. Probably the same response, though - I regularly look over my tabs and close obsolete ones. Of course Safari on iPhone doesn’t have tabs, just that “open pages” icon in the lower left (which I often forget to look at for weeks, where it can build up a lot of open pages). The only time I get an overload of tabs is when I’m opening pages on sites that insist on opening every click into a new tab instead of updating the current tab (I hate those sites).
My main browser is Chrome. I have several others for testing websites.
I always have 3 tabs open (work gmail, other gmail, google calendar) but they aren’t specifically pinned. Sometimes I’ll have up to another 10 or 15 tabs open. (A friend/colleague of mine always has 50+ tabs open, which makes gives me anxiety LOL.)
I have my most frequently used bookmarks organized into folders on the bookmarks bar, so they are easily accessible.
I also use Workona for browser management, but not to its full potential. Mainly I have a Workona setup with my emails and calendar, so I can easily reset to just those tabs.