Disciplined Browsing with Chrome Extension

Too many tabs

Have you ever tried having 100 or more tabs open at once in Google Chrome browser? You can’t even see the favicon of the tabs, not to mention the tab titles! It can really be a drain on your productivity, hunting around for those tabs. Consider this Chrome browser extension, TooManyTabs for better tab management and reduced tab overflow. TooManyTabs (TMT) stores up to 20 recently closed tabs.

Here’s a video demonstrating use of TMT.

No more tabs

For truly advanced tabaholics, there is a stricter alternative to TMT. No More Tabs only allows a maximum of six tabs to be open at any one time.

Chrome Extension for Better Self-Control

Update

Sadly, the developers of TMT decided to stop supporting it in July 2016. Although the following commentary is specific to the Firefox version of TMT, there have been no updates regarding support of Google Chrome browser tab management on the Visibo blog either.  After eight years, the end arrives for TMT and other browser add-on’s:

Here are some of my final thoughts as a developer…

TMT is small, but developing it has never been easy. So why persist? For a tabaholic like me I have always too many tabs open. TMT offers a niche function that could only be appreciated by few people who really needs it like I do. They would email me about how TMT had improved their productivity and how devastated they would be without it. I am proud that I have served the many minority of us whose need were not met by the “standard”.

It seems all traditional add ons have also become too niche to be worth supporting. In my opinion, the Internet and the Open Source movement has kind of lost its original ways. If my memory serves, the Internet promised a long tail. Everyone, supposedly, can find their niche on the Internet when there is none in the real world. The Internet now, however, is too becoming more and more tailored to the sole interest of the majority, where popularity… is the sole criteria of survival… If you are a niche, like TMT, or like Google Reader, you will no longer get support. Maybe it’s because it’s not profitable. Or compared to the billions of other users on the Internet, that 0.1% of you aren’t important.

I do not like the direction that we are heading.

Loyal users of TMT: Thank you for your long time support and farewell! It has been a great time.

Undisciplined browsing in the wild

Via Google Product Forums, this user is having trouble with slow Chrome tab switching on Android:

First of all I must admit I’m not a normal user here, I have like 400 tabs open…