Multiple browser-window-tab configurations?
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#Hi Marc, I am currently using the "Session Manager" extension for Chrome, and find that useful for organizing sessions/tabs. There's a Chrome Store page listing other extensions similar to Session Manager: [^]. yrs, Bill
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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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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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Computational Types in C# and F#I cannot see why it would be hard to implement... Essentially most multi-tab browsers now have a separate process for each tab, but they must have some way of telling which tab is active in order for it to display in a raised state. So it is not at all impossible, they cannot even state the memory requirements would be too high, as storing a url as compared with storing all the garbage that most webpages contain is like adding a grain of sand to a mountain. All they need to do once they have the active tab is extrapolate the url and add it to a tab-group. Far more worrying for me is the implementation of having 10+ tabs open at one time in Windows 8. It is a nightmare to navigate through without using [OS]/[ALT]+[TAB] (I believe my win8 does not allow [WIN]+[TAB], but [ALT]+[TAB] works great... theyFail!)
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Marc Clifton wrote:
I know I can categorize them, but that's numerous clicks and so forth,
Yeah I figured you would and it is a pain to have to go through the process of bookmarking each one. To bad you can't bulk select a bunch of tabs and bookmark them that way it would still require some extra work but it would help? [edit] I was intrigued by your problem, as I have wished in the past for a way to bulk save tabs so I could come back later to research and found in FF that if you right click on a tab one of the options is to "Bookmark All Tabs...". It will then ask you for a destination and you can go back later as I mentioned above and open all tabs. Hope this eases the pain a little. [/edit]
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Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1I've got a similar problem. When I'm researching a new topic I'll open up many links trying to find the best information but then need to save that session so I can recall it later. I've been looking at a few chrome extensions and one I can recommend is TabCloud[^]. This allows you to label all tabs in a window and reopen them again later in a single click. It also uses your google account so syncs across all your computers.
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Maximilien wrote:
I never have more than 5 tabs open at the same time.
Lots of stuff. I don't do bookmarking. Tabs are my bookmarks. Maybe I should be better organized. :rolleyes: Marc
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Computational Types in C# and F#Same here. But the real culprit is the CodeProject Daily News mail. I receive it at the beginning of the day, and as soon as I start reading it I always open all its links on background tabs. I read some, then get back to do work and the others just stay sitting there for the whole day until I can read them again. Poor lonely, forgotten tabs.
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#Go for Opera. It has tab groups done right (unlike Firefox). You basically just drag a tab on top of another tab and you have a group. On top of that Opera also has sessions, so you can save and restore multiple windows with mutliple tab(group)s.
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#Hi Marc, Maybe I'm missing something but you can bookmark all open tabs as a group using "Add Current Tabs to Favorites". The next time you open your browser you just right click the folder in Favorites and select "Open in Tab Group". Admittedly for each window you would have to select a separate folder to open but it seems like that would meet your needs. This assumes you're using IE. ...the only browser we are allowed in my office (corporate environments are awesome!) :| Glenn
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Go for Opera. It has tab groups done right (unlike Firefox). You basically just drag a tab on top of another tab and you have a group. On top of that Opera also has sessions, so you can save and restore multiple windows with mutliple tab(group)s.
+1 for Opera. I currently have 60 or more opened tabs in Opera right now. With Opera, you can: - Group tabs by drag and drop a tab onto another, or onto another group of tabs. - Collapse / expand groups of tags. - Save tabs set into what is called "sessions" for later reopening them. - Opera reopens your tabs when it restarts. Note that Opera was the first browser introducing tabs. Some other pretty good functions of the opera browser: - has en integrated email client (and not simply another email client: it is the best I have ever seen. Outlook is not a good email client in comparison). - news groups, - rss feeds - Opera is better than dedicated email clients, rss feeds and news groups readers. And I tried lots of them. - Very good download manager. - Popup blocker that works pretty well. - Some sites are unreadable (wrong colors or fonts). Get rid of this ugly page rendering with a single click on a toolbar button. - Easily transfer your settings from one PC to another, for example when you clean install from Windows 7 to Windows 8, which I just did yesterday: I got my 60+ opened tabs on windows 8 like the day before on Windows 7, with all my contacts, emails, mail accounts, past emails (10 years+), passwords, etc. - etc. Actually, Opera has all the functions of Chrome, + much more. I use Chrome mainly for debugging purposes, or when I need to open a site with another account.
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I've got a similar problem. When I'm researching a new topic I'll open up many links trying to find the best information but then need to save that session so I can recall it later. I've been looking at a few chrome extensions and one I can recommend is TabCloud[^]. This allows you to label all tabs in a window and reopen them again later in a single click. It also uses your google account so syncs across all your computers.
TabCloud looked very interesting so I tried it but it doesn't work on WIn7 64-bit gets a Can't connect to server error message but did look promising. I found in FF that if you right click a tab one of the options is "Bookmark All Tabs...", it will ask you for a destination folder then you can come back later and select the "Open All in Tabs" option from the Bookmark menu. Glad the post was started I never knew about this option and it will come in very handy in the future.
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#I am sure I am missing the point, but I do this through bookmarks. I save important links to my bookmarks bar in folders by project/business need. I duplicate bookmarks where necessary. I then simply right click and "Open all bookmarks" and get my specific setup for whatever I am working on. I sync all of this using Xmarks in Chrome, IE and Firefox so my links list is the same no matter what browser I am working on and what computer I am working on. It couldn't be much easier.
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TabCloud looked very interesting so I tried it but it doesn't work on WIn7 64-bit gets a Can't connect to server error message but did look promising. I found in FF that if you right click a tab one of the options is "Bookmark All Tabs...", it will ask you for a destination folder then you can come back later and select the "Open All in Tabs" option from the Bookmark menu. Glad the post was started I never knew about this option and it will come in very handy in the future.
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Version 3.0 now available. There is no place like 127.0.0.1I'd have another look at it and make sure there isn't something blocking - I'm using Windows 7 professional 64bit (Service pack 1) - and it works perfectly. You did get me to read the documentation on it though and it appears there is also a firefox version: TabCloud for firefox Not sure if fairs any better on your machine. The only problem with the Firefox Bookmark all tabs is that I'd have to use Firefox....I'm quite attached to chrome. :-D
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Mike Hankey wrote:
I don't know if it helps Marc but in FF you can categorize bookmarks
I know I can categorize them, but that's numerous clicks and so forth, and really, I just want the browser god to ask me, which window with its set of tabs do you want to open. Show me the list of windows that I had open and the tabs in those windows, and I'll be happy! Maybe the "recently closed" selection in Chrome sort of does that already, it just isn't the easiest way to go about this, IMO. Marc
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Computational Types in C# and F#I think you should try the Firefox tab management before jumping to conclusions. I use it everyday, having my tabs arranged by my various projects. All it takes is 2 clicks to swap between sets of tabs. Setting it up couldn't be easier. Click the Group Tab button, double click and now you're in a new tab group. To swap to another, click the button and choose which group to load. I seriously doubt you're going to find anything easier or more useful for managing tabs right now. I too keep on the lookout for time saving ways to manage tabs etc and this really is the best thing out there that I've come across. You can try an extension called 'Tab Sugar' for Chrome, which is supposed to do the same thing, but it was buggy the last time I tried it. I hope this works out for you. If not, please post if you find something better.
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I am sure I am missing the point, but I do this through bookmarks. I save important links to my bookmarks bar in folders by project/business need. I duplicate bookmarks where necessary. I then simply right click and "Open all bookmarks" and get my specific setup for whatever I am working on. I sync all of this using Xmarks in Chrome, IE and Firefox so my links list is the same no matter what browser I am working on and what computer I am working on. It couldn't be much easier.
DougWills wrote:
I am sure I am missing the point
No, I don't think you are. I'm just being nitpicky, not wanting to have to use bookmarks. :) Marc
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#It isn't exactly what you are looking for, but I've found the Session Buddy (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edacconmaakjimmfgnblocblbcdcpbko?hl=en[^]) add-on to be great, especially as backup in case Chrome loses your tabs when you have multiple windows open.
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I'd have another look at it and make sure there isn't something blocking - I'm using Windows 7 professional 64bit (Service pack 1) - and it works perfectly. You did get me to read the documentation on it though and it appears there is also a firefox version: TabCloud for firefox Not sure if fairs any better on your machine. The only problem with the Firefox Bookmark all tabs is that I'd have to use Firefox....I'm quite attached to chrome. :-D
I use FF exclusively and TabCloud for FF is what I couldn't get to work. I've been an FF user for a long time and find it hard to switch.
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#You can save, restore and manage sessions in Opera. You can even be prompted at startup about which session to start.
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#I made a browser while I was still in college that allowed you to save all open tabs to a "tab list". Then you had a drop down of your "tab lists", and once you selected one, it automatically opened all of those tabs. This was before tabbed browsing had gotten very big, my teacher's jaw was on the floor. Cool story, huh? I guess I should make a plugin to do this junk, it was pretty neat. It would be even cooler if your "tab list" only took up one spot in the tab row, and allowed you to go through its child tabs like a drop-down menu when you hovered over it. I haven't made any browser plugins yet, though. I guess it's time to learn, haha.
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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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Computational Types in C# and F#Instead of keeping tabs open somewhere or bookmarking articles/pages only to forget them until they are outdated, I use Simpleology[^] DreamCatcher (via browser addon) for storing and reminding me them as soon as I am ready to build a new working plan. This process also gives me time for my initial curiosity to calm down, which occasionally result in me cancelling the decision to read that particular page and save some valuable time. Best part is, all those tabs are out of sight until I want to re-evaluate/read them, uncluttering my browser AND my mind.
