#tabmanagement — Public Fediverse posts

ZDNet: Google Chrome’s vertical tabs are here: How to opt in and use the new Reading Mode. “Instead of forcing you to work with all your open pages at the top of the screen, the vertical tabs layout displays them in a sidebar. This means you can open and view more tabs without them getting lost in the shuffle. Plus, you can easily see the full titles of each page and quickly switch to a […]

Mozilla Blog: Split View in Firefox: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them. “The web is inherently multidimensional. For years, browsing this way meant bouncing back and forth between multiple open tabs, or spinning up multiple windows and using other tools to organize them side-by-side. The new Split View feature makes these moments easier. It lets you place two tabs next to each […]

Mashable: Google Chrome is testing a big change to tabs. “Google’s flagship web browser is getting a new feature that people already love in other browsers — vertical tabs. The new tab feature is available now as part of the Chrome Canary experimental build for developers, per Windows Report.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/24/mashable-google-chrome-is-testing-a-big-change-to-tabs/

gHacks: Firefox users say that Smart Tab Grouping is using too much CPU, battery. “Mozilla released Firefox 141 last month, and with it came an AI-powered feature to organize tabs. Now, Firefox users are saying that the feature is causing high CPU usage.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/13/ghacks-firefox-users-say-that-smart-tab-grouping-is-using-too-much-cpu-battery/

MakeUseOf: Sick of Too Many Tabs? These Simple Tricks Saved Me . “My web browsers used to look chaotic at best. A random website open in one tab, Google Docs in another, and perhaps a video to listen to while I worked with some extra tabs involving research pages. Eventually, I got fed up with working like this, and some simple tweaks changed everything.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/02/makeuseof-sick-of-too-many-tabs-these-simple-tricks-saved-me/

Engadget: Firefox finally adds tab groups. “Firefox now lets you organize your tabs. Four years after its biggest rivals launched tab groups, Mozilla published a nearly 1,000-word blog post recounting the feature’s long road from user requests to launch. (Consider skipping it if you don’t like long-winded acceptance speeches.)”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/30/engadget-firefox-finally-adds-tab-groups/

It's annoying that Safari's grouped tabs are so good. You can configure Microsoft Edge to work sort of similar, but it doesn't persist the group tabs between sessions and I can't figure it out. I don't really like collections is anyone actually using the collections feature?

#SafariGroupedTabs #MicrosoftEdge #TabManagement #Collections #BrowserFeatures #AnnoyingBrowserExperience

@brennen Short answer: not that I've found, yet, to my satisfaction.

Some things that don't work IME:

• Google Chrome, especially on Android. Anything past ~5 tabs is utterly unmanageable. My "close tabs" post-it note is dated April. Of 2015.

• Pocket. See https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/5x2sfx/pocket_it_gets_worse_the_more_you_use_it/

• Tree-Style Tabs. A good start, but ultimately not the solution.

• Zotero. I just don't think like it does. Friction is too high.

• Save-as-PDF. You now have an unorganised pile elsewhere.

• Zettlekasten / index cards. Useful, but too high-friction for online stuff.

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