Too many tabs?
Have you ever tried working with 100 or more open tabs open in Google Chrome browser? I have. You can’t even see the favicon for the website, not to mention the site and page names! Eventually, the tabs become mere points. It isn’t exactly helpful for one’s productivity!
The favicons disappear due to my poor tab management
Consider this Chrome browser extension, TooManyTabs by Visibo, for better tab management. TooManyTabs (TMT) stores up to 20 recently closed tabs. This is a video demonstration of how it works.
NO MORE TABS?
Well, not quite THAT much discipline is necessary! For truly severe tab-aholics, there is a stricter alternative to TMT: No More Tabs allows a maximum of six open tabs.
Chrome extension for more productive browsing
Update 2016: The end arrives
Sadly, VisiboTech stopped supporting No More Tabs and Too Many Tabs in July 2016. The following commentary is specific to the Firefox version of TMT, but there have been no updates about Google Chrome browser tab management either. After eight years, the end arrived for TMT:
TMT is small, but developing it has never been easy. So why persist? For a tab-aholic like me I have always too many tabs open. TMT offers a niche function that could only be appreciated by people who really need it… 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 [those] whose needs were not met by the “standard”.
I think these additional comments by Visibo are broadly applicable regarding the demise of the user contributory Web 2.0:
Here are some of my final thoughts as a developer… It seems all traditional add ons have become too niche to be worth supporting. In my opinion, the Internet and the Open Source movement has kind of lost its original way.
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 becoming more tailored to the interests of the majority, where popularity… is the sole criteria of survival… Niche [users], like Google Reader, will no longer get support. Maybe it’s because it’s not profitable… I do not like the direction that we are heading.
All emphasis above is mine.
Undisciplined browsing in the wild
I found this in a Google Product Forum. A 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…
Ellie Asks Why 