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When I am doing coding work, I often have a ton of tabs open. I will keep different documentation tabs open to the relevant sections. I will keep some tabs with answers on StackOverflow.

My open tabs are kinda like my working memory. I could close them and reopen them as needed, but it is easier to just click a tab then to try to find the thing again. In addition, sometimes the pages I am looking at have dynamic navigation, and closing and reopening the page will require a good deal of navigation to find the section I was looking at. Plus, the overall time to reload the content, where if I just have the tab open there is no download time.

Also, the tab icons help me remember what I was looking at. I will often keep tabs open for what I wanted to read later.

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I don't know whether that exists for chrome too, but for firefox I find tree-style-tabs very useful to organize my open tabs when developing. A top-level tab for the different topics (e.g. one toplevel tab for a project's github issues, one each for the libraries I'm using, one for news,...). Then when switching tasks I can just minimize those.

I'm using tabs in exactly the same way. For the read later tabs something like http://www.tabsnooze.com/ might help. I haven't tried it yet, but it sounds good. "Save to Inbox" is another option.

Yeah, I basically do the same thing, but that hardly ever requires 10 tabs for me. When that happens, finding tabs becomes especially harder once their width starts to shrink.

As for read-later, I usually pull them into the bookmarks bar (top level, directly visible) to free up some space.

I use one-tab.com; works fantastically for me. Not a huge stretch to say it changed my life.

I used this years ago, then tried to cure myself of tabs by forcing myself away from it. It didn't take, and I completely forgot about this, going back to The Great Suspender (which is also great). Thanks for reminding me about this!

Thanks, looks interesting! Link: http://www.one-tab.com/

For what it's worth, there's a similar feature currently available in Firefox Test Pilot: https://testpilot.firefox.com/experiments/tab-center

Are you taking about tab center? That thingy had a number of issues last I checked, I especially remember there was something weird about the layout of it. I think it extended all the way up on the side of the menu bar. This looked weird to me (and I think UI is overrated) and makes the toolbars slide when I open/close the tab drawer.

I'd recommend using one of the extensions instead.

OneTab can make a huge difference. And being able to do a quick find on your list of old tabs certainly makes things easier for those of us who are, uh, a little over the top when it comes to opening tabs.

The only bad thing is realizing you have a couple hundred old tabs to go through and delete. They really add up over time.

One-tab doesn't sync or let you backup to another source (e.g. Dropbox). I use it, but taking manual backups is a pain.

> June 2016 Update: We're currently working on new features including an option for multi-PC cloud sync. This has taken quite a few months to put together due to the huge number of extension users that the cloud sync will need to support. Thank you for all of your feature suggestions, please keep the feedback coming. -OneTab

With Firefox you just open a new one and start typing part of the title or url and it finds the tab.

If I want to add a new tab instead of finding the old I can press shift (IIRC).

Bookmarks, man!

As I said in my comment, bookmarks don't work for sites with dynamic navigation - you won't end up in the same place when you load the page from a bookmark.

In addition, you have to take the time for the page to load, you have to delete the bookmark later if you dont want to clutter up your bookmarks, etc.

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