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The Epiphany people had some interesting ideas about how to deal with tabs. http://live.gnome.org/Epiphany/FeatureDesign/EpiphanyRedux/F...

The proposal is remove to tabs completely, replace with a richer, searchable and better cached history, improved bookmarks, which are better organised for returning to recent items, and a page queue for yet to read items. I would like to try something like this, it seems really interesting.

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I particularly liked this quote:

Generally, tabs can be seen as a flexible mechanism that is used for a range of tasks none of which they are optimised to cater for.

Although, I'm not sure about their proposed solutions. The history is really lacking in context and could maybe be displayed better as a tree of thumbnails showing you not the order pages were opened but from where they were opened. I think the queue is a great idea but could probably be built into the same tree; just highlight queued and bookmarked pages in some way.

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