Sure, almost everything mentioned in the article is problematic. Then again, maybe it's just us programmed to hit Ctrl-T too much over a decade...
Navigation (forward/back), history, tabs, bookmarks et all are all trying to do various forms of the same thing, and their overall relationship to each other is fundamentally broken, because each individual component is too rigidly defined and isolated.
I should be able to click between a couple buttons to see how tabs are 1) related to each other from a time/clicked/navigation history perspective 2) workspace perspective 3) topic perspective
Firefox had some experiment that merged a visual history with tabs, I didnt like the idea at all, but at least they were thinking about change.
I've come to the conclusion that the bottom line is that I don't need more than a few tabs open, and that if I do, my attention is probably too fractured.
Solution is to change my habits and be a little bit more deliberate with how I'm using the browser.
This kind of thing is why I leave tabs up.
I just open new tabs whenever I think something might be worth reading, but only have time every now and then to actually read part of the stack.
I would definitely love to see more experimentation around this area.
[0] https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/07/24/chrome-experimentin...
[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simpleundoclose/em...
The closed tabs are saved in a searchable list so if something actually important gets closed you can find it again, but I find that 99% of the time I don't even notice that it has auto-closed hundreds of tabs I've opened over the course of the day.
I think I used to tell myself that leaving tabs open was sort of a 'soft bookmark', but now I just bookmark stuff that I genuinely want to come back to, and let the rest of the unimportant stuff I stumble across just disappear.
I have no idea what to do with them. Even something as simple as "read them" is .. and then what, close and forget them?
No idea what I even want to achieve - integrate them into my life in some hoarder kind of "this will make me a better, more knowledgeable person" way?