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I have a few use cases:
Basically, I use my browser as a notebook. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.
Yeah those all seem like great uses of bookmarks and save functions.
Bookmarks are only for the stuff I will always need again. Tabs just for the stuff I haven't finished yet and don't want to forget about.
Buddy have I got some news for you. You can actually delete bookmarks when you're done with them.
Sure, I can also just close the tabs I have open. Same thing, but I like it organized this way.
Closing tab is also faster than deleting bookmark
What if I told you bookmarks and tabs have a lot of overlapping use cases, and people prefer one or another because they have different workflows, or just as a matter of personal preference?
RIGHT
So why’s it hard to explain why they’re not the same… 🤔
So a shit ton of tabs that never get looked at again? I swear all of you secretly want your tabs to disappear so you have something to complain about.
Not the slightest! I can perfectly fine live without them, but I would be a little bit sad if they were gone. It happened once after my OneTab extension got somehow corrupted.
I can stop any time I want, I swear!
I will do my good deed of the month. You seem like a prime candidate for Tab Stash. Does the same but better than Tab Groups. Check it out. You might like it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/
Let me know, love it or hate it. Cheers.
Tab Stash is great, yes. That's the answer.
Is there some way this could work on android?
I wish. But no. :-(
Do you know if there's a similar extension that allows you to export/import the tabs in some text format rather than saving to bookmarks? I'm currently using Tab Season Manager, but it takes way too many steps to accomplish this.
I did not know that, thanks. The reason I use Tab Stash is because I can use my Nextcloud instance to move the tabs/bookmarks automatically. As for privacy reasons I do not use FF sync.
Moving a file seems like more work and more moving parts as I use multiple machines and different OS'es on the same machines.
Hey, this looks like a better OneTab that I always wanted!
It makes me happy to hear that you will find it useful.
Cheers!
Have you heard of bookmarks? There's a bookmark toolbar, that could look almost exactly the same if you want. Including folders with sub-folders, etc.
So you're saying that pressing 2 on screen buttons, then closing a page is a better solution than creating a group then dragging in and out whatever you need? Sure, I use the bookmarks bar too, but it's not for stuff I'll remove after a while, those are perminent, but tab groups are generally for stuff you will eventually close, but wantto sort in the meantime to make it more convenient.
If you don't have a use for it, fair enough, I don't either, but it is a genuinely useful feature for some that can't be replaced by more clicks.