[kwlug-disc] Firefox tab addons - tab folders?

[Bob Jonkman]

unsolicited wrote:
> On list (your?) recommendation I loaded noscript. Not entirely sure 
> I'm impressed with it. Think I added noreferrer and flashblock addons 
> as well. Not sure I'm happier with noscript over just ad block plus.

Possibly my recommendation.  I recommend NoScript to everyone, as well 
as Adblock Plus (not Adblock; that's a different add-on, long abandoned 
by its author)

NoScript allows you to determine which sites are allowed to run 
Javascript in your browser.  Adblock Plus prevents certain objects from 
displaying in your browser.  Two different programs, and I use them both 
at the same time.  The InterWebs aren't safe without them.


For tab manipulation I use Tab Mix Plus.  I've got mine set for three 
ribbons of tabs before I get the left-right arrows.  But there's  a 
pull-down box too, so I can go directly to the tab without scrolling 
through them all.

--Bob.

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unsolicited wrote:
> Khalid Baheyeldin wrote, On 02/08/2010 5:10 PM:
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 3:23 PM, unsolicited <unsolicited at swiz.ca 
>> <mailto:unsolicited at swiz.ca>> wrote:
>>
>>     Khalid, recently, indicated he has something like 240 tabs open in
>>     Firefox.
>>
>> Yes, it is a bad habit. Yes, I can stop anytime ... umm Ctrl-T. :-)
>>
>>     I've had to go to taberwocky as firefox version updates have left
>>     whatever addon I was using in the dust.
>>
>>     I now have three rows across the top of opened tabs. (I like tabs
>>     across the top, not the side.)
>>
>>     This is getting irritating. Yes, I could close the tabs. Don't want
>>     to. tthhpptt.
>>
>>     Any add ons out there that keep tabs along the top, but let me put
>>     them in folders? i.e. There are groups of tabs related to whatever I
>>     was investigating at the time, but haven't gotten around to a
>>     conclusion on yet. It would be nice to group these tabs into a
>>     single tab bar entry that was expandable.
>>
>> I never bothered to have all the tabs visible. They scroll when there 
>> is more of them on the screen. Normally this is one window only (the 
>> "read later" window).
>
> First, I ended up with taberwocky as my normal 'duplicate tab' 
> functionality was lost. [I forget due to firefox version upgrade, or 
> installed a new firefox version and went looking to see what one can 
> do with tabs.] The first addon I tried, much like you describe, got 
> irritating as it wrapped - when I just wanted to go to the last tab, 
> and scrolled right ... it never stopped scrolling. <sigh>
>
>
> Um, are you saying you have multiple firefox windows open, one of 
> which is designated as the read later window? (1) What, do you just 
> move tabs back and forth between the two? e.g. On the non-read-later 
> window you come across something for later reading, you just 
> right-click the tap and say 'go to other window'? (2) No problems with 
> multiple windows opening with the correct tabs after exiting / 
> starting firefox again?
>
>> What I use is session manager (a life saver to open what I was in 
>> last time, whether it is a crash or need to reboot because of a new 
>> kernel, ..etc.) and NoScript, which stops javascript and Flash on 
>> most sites. Those two are the reason Firefox uses so much CPU. 
>> Without NoScript,Firefox becomes very slow with so many tabs opened 
>> most of them with ads dancing around.
>
> On list (your?) recommendation I loaded noscript. Not entirely sure 
> I'm impressed with it. Think I added noreferrer and flashblock addons 
> as well. Not sure I'm happier with noscript over just ad block plus.
>
> Session Manager?
>
> This is the magic for re-opening your multiple sessions with the same 
> tabs?
>
> And this is different than the built in 'session manager' which 
> keeps/restores your tabs at firefox close/open?
>
>
>>     Suggestions?
>>
>>     (Note, I'm not talking bookmarks, here. Opened tabs.)
>
> It would still be nice to tree/folder tabs on the tab bar - put all 
> those read later tabs pertaining to X in one tab. Perhaps this is what 
> you gain with session manager. Essentially each windows becomes that 
> grouping. Certainly not move the tabs to the side.
>
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