Hacker News Reader

Comment by andrewstuart | Hacker News Reader

I usually have at least 6 browser windows open with at least 10 or more tabs each.

I wish there was a better way to do it.

I work on projects for a few days or hours at a time, and maybe only 10 of those tabs are relevant to a given project.

I'd like to be able to somehow only have the relevant tabs for my current project or train of thought.

Someone suggested I use the people profiles in Chrome which seems a good idea but obviously not good enough cause I'm not doing it.

View on HN

Tree Style tab does this and more. You can pin permanent tabs on top, and keep the others neatly organized in a hierarchical tree.

Tree Style Tabs is the biggest thing anchoring me to Firefox - the reason why I can't switch to Chrome.

Had struggled with this for 8+ years with usually 200+ tabs open, even started coding my own extension for this. And tried at least 30 extensions.

Finally settled on https://workona.com/ . It's not exactly perfect and I disable the tab cache feature via settings to basically open each workplace in a different window instead of replacing an existing one. But otherwise, it's perfect.

Any idea of a similar extension for Firefox?

Many editors have projects where you open a group of documents with associated settings. Browsers have almost everything they need to do this too.

Editors can assume a level of RTFM that browsers will not. If it's not discoverable enough for someone unfamiliar, it won't make it in.

There's a menu with "New Project" and "Close Project." Never had to read a manual, for that part anyway.

"I usually have at least 6 browser windows open with at least 10 or more tabs each. I wish there was a better way to do it."

Back when Opera was an innovative browser, it had a really useful tab grouping feature which let you achieve the same thing as you describe but without requiring a separate browser instance.

Yeah, it would be useful for browsers to remember a set of tabs as a session.

Then it would be easy to "temp close" tabs when one activity is done. But get back to it when needing to context shift back to that activity.

Firefox's simple tab groups plugin is pretty good for this.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com