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Comment by mwidell | Hacker News Reader

Just out of curiosity, why would you want to have 800 open tabs? What is your workflow? Do you use tabs as bookmarks? How do you find open tabs?

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I'm in much the same boat as srean, I do online research on some subject (new subject every week) and open tabs are my way of remembering what I still need to read and keep notes from. 100's of tabs open is really no exception, especially not for subjects with a large online footprint.

I use the tree-style tabs plug in and scrapbook to keep my sanity.

Yeah they are like a volatile bookmarks with a traversable history and a 'this is very interesting but have to save the reading for later' todo list.

Once you bookmark a link the history-browsing-trajectory is lost. However once I visit a tab often it becomes a bookmark.

There are extensions to organize and search bookmarks.

you may be a fan of tree-style tabs - used to do me well when i used to be on FF - you get a sense of how you got somewhere.

I use vivaldi now - and while i have tabs on the left - i do miss tree-style features.

How do you navigate between your tabs?

Firefox searches through open tabs by default when you type in the address bar.

You just use omnibus to find it, for me it is a temporary bookmark, once when I did cleanup I had 1000 tabs.

If you type something in the Firefox url bar starting with a "% " (percent, then space) the rest of the string will be treated as a search across the titles and urls of your open tabs. This is what I typically use for navigation.

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