I thought @Steve and others might appreciate a couple of tips for dealing with lots of browser tabs. I know @Steve has said on the podcast a few times that he routinely has many tabs open. I can relate. I currently have about 500, yes five hundred, tabs open. This is sort of my master big picture on the universe topics to research or being researched list. So, as an example, I might be researching propane generators, prepping, covid, alternate energy, solar, Nikola Tesla, art, music, and so on. I have developed a method to SORT OF keep them organized and accessible. I don't have all 500 tabs in one window. They're organized into separate windows by topic, each of which may have 5-25 tabs or more. I know @Steve has mentioned the Tree Style Tab plugin in Firefox and I've used that at times. But, more recently, I've been using Brave. In Brave, I use the Tabs Outliner extension. It's not exactly the same as Tree Style Tab, but it's somewhat similar. Unless you disable the feature, it stores a history of all tabs you open, possibly going back years. So, watch what you open. This was quite helpful today, though, since my PC crashed. I'm using that function to go and reopen all 500 tabs, one window (with all its associated tabs) at a time. Sometimes, but not always, if you have a crash, you can immediately go into the menu in Brave, then history, then restore previous session. You can do the same thing in Firefox. But, if you don't do so right away, you lose the opportunity. That didn't work in this case, so I'm resetting everything a window at a time.
I've also developed a window organization system that works for me in Windows 7. I don't know for sure if it works in other OS's. First, I right click on the taskbar, properties, and put the task bar on the right. Then, I grab the border and make it wide enough so 6 of the little icons in the system tray will fit in the width of the task bar. On my screen, that appears to be about 1.25 - 1.5". I turn off auto hide for the task bar, turn on small icons, and lock the task bar. See the picture below and keep reading below that. Note that each icon here is a browser window, with multiple tabs inside. Once I go to the window, I can see the tabs.
You may notice that each task is labeled with a topic. This label will take on the title of whatever tab is left selected. So, I add a new tab in the browser and in the address bar I type the topic of the window as though it's a file. Like c:solr1 (for solar 1), for example. It won't find the file as it doesn't exist. However, that tab still takes on that title. So, on the task bar, I see file:///c:/solr1, for example. I leave that tab selected before switching to another window. In this way, I can see the topic of each browser window in the task bar. In order to make it work, I just have to open new tabs in their appropriate window. If I open a tax tab in the solar window, that doesn't work.
I hope you find this interesting and helpful. It just occurred to me while restoring my windows from the crash that this info might be helpful to others. So, I thought I'd share.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Ron
I've also developed a window organization system that works for me in Windows 7. I don't know for sure if it works in other OS's. First, I right click on the taskbar, properties, and put the task bar on the right. Then, I grab the border and make it wide enough so 6 of the little icons in the system tray will fit in the width of the task bar. On my screen, that appears to be about 1.25 - 1.5". I turn off auto hide for the task bar, turn on small icons, and lock the task bar. See the picture below and keep reading below that. Note that each icon here is a browser window, with multiple tabs inside. Once I go to the window, I can see the tabs.
You may notice that each task is labeled with a topic. This label will take on the title of whatever tab is left selected. So, I add a new tab in the browser and in the address bar I type the topic of the window as though it's a file. Like c:solr1 (for solar 1), for example. It won't find the file as it doesn't exist. However, that tab still takes on that title. So, on the task bar, I see file:///c:/solr1, for example. I leave that tab selected before switching to another window. In this way, I can see the topic of each browser window in the task bar. In order to make it work, I just have to open new tabs in their appropriate window. If I open a tax tab in the solar window, that doesn't work.
I hope you find this interesting and helpful. It just occurred to me while restoring my windows from the crash that this info might be helpful to others. So, I thought I'd share.
May your bits be stable and your interfaces be fast.
Ron
