Best Desktop Browser of 2020
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I find myself right now often ending up in a place with my normal daily workflow where I have just a ton of Google Docs, Jira tickets, and other tabs open that are all semi related to one project or area.
Has anyone figured out a clean way of grabbing a bunch of tabs together, saving them, then putting them "away" until I need them again?
Like, let's say I'm working on a requirements ticket for a reporting update. I might have a couple Google Sheets which shows the data, a couple tickets with bug reports, a few other browser tabs, all related to each other. Is there a way I can group all of this with something like "Reporting Update" then close the tabs until I'm ready to work on it again?
I've tried fiddling with Toby as a Chrome add-on or Collections and I haven't settled on a way to handle this cleanly yet.
Has anyone figured out a clean way of grabbing a bunch of tabs together, saving them, then putting them "away" until I need them again?
Like, let's say I'm working on a requirements ticket for a reporting update. I might have a couple Google Sheets which shows the data, a couple tickets with bug reports, a few other browser tabs, all related to each other. Is there a way I can group all of this with something like "Reporting Update" then close the tabs until I'm ready to work on it again?
I've tried fiddling with Toby as a Chrome add-on or Collections and I haven't settled on a way to handle this cleanly yet.
FF will save and restore multiple tabs every time you open it.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time
I used that at work until IT decided it was no longer supported.
Now it's FF at home, Chrome and ie (because we still have pages that only ie supports
) at work.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time
I used that at work until IT decided it was no longer supported.
Now it's FF at home, Chrome and ie (because we still have pages that only ie supports
) at work.
Most of the browsers will restore tabs when you close and reopen the windows. What I'm looking for is a way to create groups of tabs, close them or store them somewhere, add new tabs to that group, or remove tabs, but keep them "put away" while I go about my day-to-day using the browser for other things.FF will save and restore multiple tabs every time you open it.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-do-i-restore-my-tabs-last-time
I used that at work until IT decided it was no longer supported.
Now it's FF at home, Chrome and ie (because we still have pages that only ie supports
How about Simple tab Groups?
https://www.ghacks.net/2020/02/22/simple-tab-groups-is-a-firefox-extension-for-organizing-your-tabs/
I thought (there I go thinking again
) that FF could do this by default now, but this extension might help...
Mahjik
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He didn't even wait a full year!
MS edge has a save and restore tabs function in the upper left corner. Don't know about "grouping" them unless you want to consider all saved tabs in that group (ie. only saving those.) You can restore all of them at once.
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Been a fan of Firefox since the days before it was Firefox. I'm a huge fan of the 'full page screenshot' feature, where everything contained in the browser is captured, not just what's on screen.
According to this page, Chrome 83 (released today) has tab grouping.
https://www.howtogeek.com/673731/how-to-collapse-and-hide-tab-groups-in-google-chrome/
Don't know if that meets your needs, but thought you might want to check it out.
I just saw that they're introducing tab groups and that also there's an option to collapse a tab group coming up. This is almost exactly what I was hoping for. At the moment I've spent the past few weeks giving Microsoft Edge a test run using their Collections feature, which is working out better than I expected really.
In and a related twist, I ended up on Firefox by the end of 2020 because chrome was encountering weird issues that just never seem to get resolved. Gotta love the amount of choice we get these days in browsers
In and a related twist, I ended up on Firefox by the end of 2020 because chrome was encountering weird issues that just never seem to get resolved. Gotta love the amount of choice we get these days in browsers
Yuck Chrome.
Resource hog and since google is an advertising agency, it is the least private and secure. But yes, I agree, there are a ton of choices. Good ones too. Pale Moon is also really freaking good.
Silent-Runner
Noli timere messorem
i'd say Brave, but as always, that's personal taste/preference
No you are probably right. Brave is fantastic.
It seems to have come a long way with compatibility. Testing it out again in MX Linux.