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  • M Marc Clifton

    Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open. It's a bit annoying because most of the time I'm interested in only a subset of them based on what I'm working on. What I want to know is, is there some easy way I can set up the browser (any browser, I don't care) to just open up the tabs I want, or even better, just save the configuration of tabs in the browser window for each window? For example, if I have a window with 40+ tabs, move a tab to a new window and add a few more, if I close the first window first and then the second later, Chrome only remembers the tabs for the last window closed. This is really annoying. I don't want to bookmark each tab and put them into separate categories, I want the browser to ask me "what collection of tabs do you want me to open?" and simply create collections automatically by how they're organized in different browser windows. Is that asking too much? Marc

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    Kevin Marois
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    Marc Clifton wrote:

    I have some 40+ tabs open

    That's alot of pr0n!

    If it's not broken, fix it until it is

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      Marc Clifton wrote:

      Is that asking too much?

      Yes. If a tab is important to you, bookmark it; if not, close it. No one needs 40 tabs open at the same time.

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      mark merrens wrote:

      Yes. If a tab is important to you, bookmark it; if not, close it. No one needs 40 tabs open at the same time.

      As I wrote Max above, tabs are my bookmarks, but perhaps you are right. Still, it's such a pain to set up bookmarks, categories, etc, which are displayed in stupid folder lists when what I want is something more like Mind Manager where I can draw associations between pages, make notes on the bookmarks, and the bookmark manager is Chrome is computer specific so my bookmarks on one computer don't automatically appear on the other. Yes, there probably are obvious solutions to these problems, but yet again, why can't this just be done right, so that I don't have to think about! Marc

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        Marc Clifton wrote:

        I have some 40+ tabs open

        That's alot of pr0n!

        If it's not broken, fix it until it is

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        Kevin Marois wrote:

        That's alot of pr0n!

        Well, there's some good stuff out there - dancing with F#, kissing up to the fiscal cliff, Pete's articles on "contracts", ... ;P Marc

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        • M Marc Clifton

          mark merrens wrote:

          Yes. If a tab is important to you, bookmark it; if not, close it. No one needs 40 tabs open at the same time.

          As I wrote Max above, tabs are my bookmarks, but perhaps you are right. Still, it's such a pain to set up bookmarks, categories, etc, which are displayed in stupid folder lists when what I want is something more like Mind Manager where I can draw associations between pages, make notes on the bookmarks, and the bookmark manager is Chrome is computer specific so my bookmarks on one computer don't automatically appear on the other. Yes, there probably are obvious solutions to these problems, but yet again, why can't this just be done right, so that I don't have to think about! Marc

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          R Giskard Reventlov
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          Perhaps you could create something? I keep most of my bookmarks on my web site so they are always available, wherever I am.

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          • M Marc Clifton

            Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open. It's a bit annoying because most of the time I'm interested in only a subset of them based on what I'm working on. What I want to know is, is there some easy way I can set up the browser (any browser, I don't care) to just open up the tabs I want, or even better, just save the configuration of tabs in the browser window for each window? For example, if I have a window with 40+ tabs, move a tab to a new window and add a few more, if I close the first window first and then the second later, Chrome only remembers the tabs for the last window closed. This is really annoying. I don't want to bookmark each tab and put them into separate categories, I want the browser to ask me "what collection of tabs do you want me to open?" and simply create collections automatically by how they're organized in different browser windows. Is that asking too much? Marc

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            lewax00
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            Well I don't know if it's quite what you want, but Firefox has tab groups, there's a button next to the minimize/maximize/close buttons that opens up the menu for that. Then instead of switching/closing windows you would just switch tab groups.

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            • M Marc Clifton

              Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open. It's a bit annoying because most of the time I'm interested in only a subset of them based on what I'm working on. What I want to know is, is there some easy way I can set up the browser (any browser, I don't care) to just open up the tabs I want, or even better, just save the configuration of tabs in the browser window for each window? For example, if I have a window with 40+ tabs, move a tab to a new window and add a few more, if I close the first window first and then the second later, Chrome only remembers the tabs for the last window closed. This is really annoying. I don't want to bookmark each tab and put them into separate categories, I want the browser to ask me "what collection of tabs do you want me to open?" and simply create collections automatically by how they're organized in different browser windows. Is that asking too much? Marc

              Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
              How To Think Like a Functional Programmer
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              eMtek
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              FF got that feature already, but not yet available from user menu After it crush it restores all windows with all its tabs...perfectly! The only question is how to force FF to CrushOnDemand? ;)

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              • M Marc Clifton

                Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open. It's a bit annoying because most of the time I'm interested in only a subset of them based on what I'm working on. What I want to know is, is there some easy way I can set up the browser (any browser, I don't care) to just open up the tabs I want, or even better, just save the configuration of tabs in the browser window for each window? For example, if I have a window with 40+ tabs, move a tab to a new window and add a few more, if I close the first window first and then the second later, Chrome only remembers the tabs for the last window closed. This is really annoying. I don't want to bookmark each tab and put them into separate categories, I want the browser to ask me "what collection of tabs do you want me to open?" and simply create collections automatically by how they're organized in different browser windows. Is that asking too much? Marc

                Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
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                David C Hobbyist
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                IIRC Chrome and FireFox both store bookmarks in JSON format. You could parse the url's and create a loop and use process.start(your_variable);

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                  [Alternative] I have a html document(which has my favorite site urls*) & set that as homepage in my browser. *One boring night, I have created that collection(& updating rarely).

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                  that's what i do. and i posted that document on blogger.com so i can get to it any time i want. even when, like today for example, my ISP has suspended my account because their CPU usage limits are too low.

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                    FF got that feature already, but not yet available from user menu After it crush it restores all windows with all its tabs...perfectly! The only question is how to force FF to CrushOnDemand? ;)

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                    David C Hobbyist
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                    40+ Tab's should do!

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                    • M Marc Clifton

                      mark merrens wrote:

                      Yes. If a tab is important to you, bookmark it; if not, close it. No one needs 40 tabs open at the same time.

                      As I wrote Max above, tabs are my bookmarks, but perhaps you are right. Still, it's such a pain to set up bookmarks, categories, etc, which are displayed in stupid folder lists when what I want is something more like Mind Manager where I can draw associations between pages, make notes on the bookmarks, and the bookmark manager is Chrome is computer specific so my bookmarks on one computer don't automatically appear on the other. Yes, there probably are obvious solutions to these problems, but yet again, why can't this just be done right, so that I don't have to think about! Marc

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                      Colin Mullikin
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                      Marc Clifton wrote:

                      and the bookmark manager is Chrome is computer specific so my bookmarks on one computer don't automatically appear on the other.

                      I don't know what Chrome you are using, but that's not how mine is... :doh:

                      The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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                        Well I don't know if it's quite what you want, but Firefox has tab groups, there's a button next to the minimize/maximize/close buttons that opens up the menu for that. Then instead of switching/closing windows you would just switch tab groups.

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                        lewax00 wrote:

                        but Firefox has tab groups,

                        Heh, that got me to think, maybe someone has created a plugin for Chrome, and lo-and-behold, there are several to choose from! Thanks for planting the seed of the thought! Marc

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                        • M Marc Clifton

                          mark merrens wrote:

                          Yes. If a tab is important to you, bookmark it; if not, close it. No one needs 40 tabs open at the same time.

                          As I wrote Max above, tabs are my bookmarks, but perhaps you are right. Still, it's such a pain to set up bookmarks, categories, etc, which are displayed in stupid folder lists when what I want is something more like Mind Manager where I can draw associations between pages, make notes on the bookmarks, and the bookmark manager is Chrome is computer specific so my bookmarks on one computer don't automatically appear on the other. Yes, there probably are obvious solutions to these problems, but yet again, why can't this just be done right, so that I don't have to think about! Marc

                          Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
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                          Brady Kelly
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                          Chrome makes a negligible effort to sync bookmarks across machines, but when I started regularly using two machines a few weeks ago I installed an old favourite, Xmarks[^]. It still had bookmarks I set like five years and as many machines ago.

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                            Marc Clifton wrote:

                            and the bookmark manager is Chrome is computer specific so my bookmarks on one computer don't automatically appear on the other.

                            I don't know what Chrome you are using, but that's not how mine is... :doh:

                            The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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                            Marc Clifton
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                            Colin Mullikin wrote:

                            I don't know what Chrome you are using, but that's not how mine is...

                            Well, maybe it needs a bit to sync, but I noticed that on my laptop (I actually tested this before I wrote the post) the bookmark manager on my laptop displays a completely different folder structure and contents than on my desktop. Marc

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                              Chrome makes a negligible effort to sync bookmarks across machines, but when I started regularly using two machines a few weeks ago I installed an old favourite, Xmarks[^]. It still had bookmarks I set like five years and as many machines ago.

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                              Marc Clifton
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                              Brady Kelly wrote:

                              I installed an old favourite, Xmarks[^].

                              Snazzy! I'll check it out. Thanks! Marc

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                                Colin Mullikin wrote:

                                I don't know what Chrome you are using, but that's not how mine is...

                                Well, maybe it needs a bit to sync, but I noticed that on my laptop (I actually tested this before I wrote the post) the bookmark manager on my laptop displays a completely different folder structure and contents than on my desktop. Marc

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                                Colin Mullikin
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                                That's odd. My laptop at home and my desktop at work have the exact same set of bookmarks and folders. And I can just right click on a folder and it gives the option to either open all, open all in new window, or open all in incognito window.

                                The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin

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                                  Marc Clifton wrote:

                                  Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open

                                  :omg: I never have more than 5 tabs open at the same time.

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                                  I usually have 2 emails open (Gmail and Hotmail), 1 for gaming news, 1 for Code Project, 1 for StackOverflow, 1 for Google, so thats 6 at least, most of the time I have 10 open at the very minimum, and when it reaches 30+, I start closing the ones that I haven't any interest in anymore, and for the ones I do have interest in, I put them in my Google Bookmarks, and then close them.

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                                  • M Marc Clifton

                                    Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open. It's a bit annoying because most of the time I'm interested in only a subset of them based on what I'm working on. What I want to know is, is there some easy way I can set up the browser (any browser, I don't care) to just open up the tabs I want, or even better, just save the configuration of tabs in the browser window for each window? For example, if I have a window with 40+ tabs, move a tab to a new window and add a few more, if I close the first window first and then the second later, Chrome only remembers the tabs for the last window closed. This is really annoying. I don't want to bookmark each tab and put them into separate categories, I want the browser to ask me "what collection of tabs do you want me to open?" and simply create collections automatically by how they're organized in different browser windows. Is that asking too much? Marc

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                                    Terrence Dorsey
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                                    I juggle 50 or more tabs in multiple windows on a daily basis. Depending on what you're trying to do, this might help. You can drag a tab off the current window and Chrome creates a new window, or you can drag tabs over to an existing window. Organize tabs into separate windows of related pages. Then go to one of those windows, right click on a tab and select "Bookmark All Tabs." Give your tab collection a useful name. All of the open tabs *in the current window* will be bookmarked in a folder with that name. It's important that you save this to your Other Bookmarks menu, not the tab bar (there's a bug in Chrome). When you want those tabs, just right-click on the bookmark *folder* and select "Open All Bookmarks in New Window." The Bookmark Manager is much improved in recent builds of Chrome. I use it frequently to tidy up and clear out old bookmarks.

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                                    • M Marc Clifton

                                      Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open. It's a bit annoying because most of the time I'm interested in only a subset of them based on what I'm working on. What I want to know is, is there some easy way I can set up the browser (any browser, I don't care) to just open up the tabs I want, or even better, just save the configuration of tabs in the browser window for each window? For example, if I have a window with 40+ tabs, move a tab to a new window and add a few more, if I close the first window first and then the second later, Chrome only remembers the tabs for the last window closed. This is really annoying. I don't want to bookmark each tab and put them into separate categories, I want the browser to ask me "what collection of tabs do you want me to open?" and simply create collections automatically by how they're organized in different browser windows. Is that asking too much? Marc

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                                      Rutvik Dave
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                                      Have tried 'Pin Tab' (Chrome) or 'Pin as App' (Firefox)? Pinned tab will reopen on your next visit. and you have 2 browsers so you get 2 groups of pinned tabs. But if you have 40+ Tabs it will be difficult to read from just favicon. And if you really want a solution: 'Please write a firefox plugin by yourself and THEN write an Article about that...' ;P

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                                        I juggle 50 or more tabs in multiple windows on a daily basis. Depending on what you're trying to do, this might help. You can drag a tab off the current window and Chrome creates a new window, or you can drag tabs over to an existing window. Organize tabs into separate windows of related pages. Then go to one of those windows, right click on a tab and select "Bookmark All Tabs." Give your tab collection a useful name. All of the open tabs *in the current window* will be bookmarked in a folder with that name. It's important that you save this to your Other Bookmarks menu, not the tab bar (there's a bug in Chrome). When you want those tabs, just right-click on the bookmark *folder* and select "Open All Bookmarks in New Window." The Bookmark Manager is much improved in recent builds of Chrome. I use it frequently to tidy up and clear out old bookmarks.

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                                        Marc Clifton
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                                        Terrence Dorsey wrote:

                                        Then go to one of those windows, right click on a tab and select "Bookmark All Tabs."

                                        Ah ha - that is useful. Thanks! Marc

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                                        • M Marc Clifton

                                          Currently in Chrome I have some 40+ tabs open. It's a bit annoying because most of the time I'm interested in only a subset of them based on what I'm working on. What I want to know is, is there some easy way I can set up the browser (any browser, I don't care) to just open up the tabs I want, or even better, just save the configuration of tabs in the browser window for each window? For example, if I have a window with 40+ tabs, move a tab to a new window and add a few more, if I close the first window first and then the second later, Chrome only remembers the tabs for the last window closed. This is really annoying. I don't want to bookmark each tab and put them into separate categories, I want the browser to ask me "what collection of tabs do you want me to open?" and simply create collections automatically by how they're organized in different browser windows. Is that asking too much? Marc

                                          Reverse Engineering Legacy Applications
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                                          SockPuppeteer
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                                          I have the same issue and use ctrl-shift-D which creates a bookmark for all the open tabs - which I then name something like "good pron" or "MVVM Javascript" or whatever. I usually save them in the bookmarks bar for easy access - you can then right-click on the one and select 'open all bookmarks in new window' or whatever takes your fancy. As long as I tidy up my bookmark bar regularly it works quite well for me.

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