56 replies

1. Zach Leatherman 1 min later

   Forked from this https://davidlazar.co/ extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/list-all-tabs/

2. rem 2 min later

   @zachleat my wife suffers from the same condition (I get anxiety every time I see her screen!) - but I thought a really useful extension would be one that could tell you *how long* the tab has been open.

   I did dabble to see if I could make it, but didn't get far. Surely if the tab's been open for 12 months+ it's time to kill it, right? RIGHT?!?!?

   1. rem 3 min later

      @zachleat zooming in on those screenshots it does actually show the timings - but I want them to be in the actual title of the tab 🤔

      1. Zach Leatherman 5 min later

         @rem ha, that would be funny to see! The purist in me would never change document.title on my beautiful tabs

   2. Zach Leatherman 4 min later

      @rem it shows this!

3. Christopher Kennedy-Nuñez 10 min later

   @zachleat oh this is very cool. I wonder how well it works with Zen, since the tabs work slightly differently when using tab organizers, in my past experience.

   1. Zach Leatherman 17 min later

      @furioursus seems to install and operate okay on my local Zen!

      1. Christopher Kennedy-Nuñez 23 min later

         @zachleat oh that’s wonderful news. I’m gonna install it when I get home. I’d love for Zen (or Mozilla browsers in general) to have some sort of first party sorting but this will easily fill that need.

         1. Christopher Kennedy-Nuñez 1 hr later

            @zachleat Yoooooo this is dope! I love it already! I don't even keep *that* many tabs but this makes it feel way more manageable, even then!

            1. Christopher Kennedy-Nuñez 1 hr later

               @zachleat One thing I’m wondering: what does "Consolidate All" do? In Zen at least, it just opens a new window but doesn’t seem to change anything?

               1. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

                  @furioursus Consolidate moves things to one window. If you only have one window, it will do nothing, I suppose!

                  1. Christopher Kennedy-Nuñez 1 hr later

                     @zachleat Gotcha. That seems to often be a caveat of using Zen. The one window syncing everything to itself makes for an odd moment where they just sort of sit there with a blank tab after the process. I’ll keep that in mind.

            2. Zach Leatherman 1 hr later

               @furioursus awesome! even adding that feedback as a review would be helpful to others!

4. ysbreker 17 min later

   @zachleat Can I make a feature request? I would love to be able to consolidate tabs into a new tab group

   1. Zach Leatherman 18 min later

      @ysbreker https://github.com/zachleat/list-all-tabs is the home base! (though that one might be a tough sell since I don’t personally use tab groups 😬)

      1. ysbreker 4 hr later

         @zachleat understandable. I try to use them every now and then. But I don't have enough tabs open to make them really useful 😅

5. orenmi 1 hr later

   @zachleat Fellow tab hoarder and extension developer here — I went a different direction and built Tab Manager & Session Saver focused on *saving named sessions* so I can close tabs without anxiety. Different from your approach (yours is organization of existing tabs, mine is persistence/restore). Interesting to see how others tackle the same problem space.

6. Bertrand Marne 1 hr later

   @zachleat
   Thanks, it seems very interesting. I am currently fond of #alltabhelper https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/all-tabs-helper/

   I will try yours to compare!

   1. Bertrand Marne 1 day later

      @zachleat

      I tried, it's nice. You're proposing “Important”, “All Tabs” and “Top Hosts” categories, why not All Windows? (close to what is done by #alltabshelper)

      Another interesting category (but would cost CPU) is like about:performance having the tabs sorted by CPU/RAM consumption…

      1. Zach Leatherman 2 days later

         @bmarne I would love to have an option for CPU/Memory directly but I didn’t see any addon-accessible option for those! Thanks for trying it!

         I filed your other idea here: https://github.com/zachleat/list-all-tabs/issues/1

         1. Private reply 2 days later
7. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

   All of my 300+ browser tabs are beautiful

   https://www.zachleat.com/web/firefox-list-all-tabs/

   1. Jim Nielsen 2 hr later

      @zachleat anybody else here in the replies wanna help me with an intervention?

      1. Andrew Douglass 2 hr later

         @jimniels @zachleat I think we need the browser tab equivalent of a Pythagorean cup. If you open too many tabs it’ll close them all and delete them from your history so you can’t reopen them. Maybe also if you open a duplicate tab.

         1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

            @ardouglass @jimniels cruel!! I can stop opening tabs any time I want

            1. Jim Nielsen 5 hr later

               @zachleat @ardouglass the first step is acceptance. C’mon Zach, say it with us, “I have a problem and my (digital) life has become unmanageable.”

               1. Zach Leatherman 5 hr later

                  @jimniels @ardouglass 300 tabs is a perfectly normal amount of tabs

                  1. Jim Nielsen 6 hr later

                     @zachleat @ardouglass

                     “how many tabs you got open?”

                     zach:

                     1. Private reply 6 hr later
                     2. Richard Rutter 1 day later

                        @jimniels @zachleat @ardouglass 'tabs' not abs!

                        1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

                           @Richr @jimniels @ardouglass I’ve been doing this too long https://github.com/zachleat/seven-minute-tabs

                           1. Andrew Douglass 1 day later

                              @zachleat @Richr @jimniels more like 11 month tabs, am I right? (but it is a vvv good custom element, I've used it on a site).

                              1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

                                 @ardouglass @Richr @jimniels *runs away screaming*

                  2. Andrew Douglass 6 hr later

                     @zachleat @jimniels am I reading it right that some of the ones in the screenshot have been open for nearly a year?

                     1. Zach Leatherman 6 hr later

                        @ardouglass @jimniels don’t you dare scrutinize my screenshot

   2. adamarmfield 4 hr later

      @zachleat I have to use cunning sometimes to get another instance of a page to open if my browser wants to switch to open tab

   3. Matthias Ott 6 hr later

      @zachleat Zach, this is beautiful! 😍 I have HTHD (habitual tab hoarding disorder), too – can’t wait to give this a try!

   4. Zach Leatherman 23 hr later

      v1.5 of this extension is out now (adds Undo/Redo, a new purgatory Saved section, shows any tabs actively playing audio with Mute controls)

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/list-all-tabs-updated/

      1. Jess Fairbairn 1 day later

         @zachleat You've done a lot better than my version in a short time https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/tab-kraken/

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

            @JessFairbairn all extensions are beautiful

      2. Christian Alder 1 day later

         @zachleat Genuinely thank you for this 🙏 On more than one occasion I've found myself pushing 1000+ tabs, I think with this I might be able to _finally_ wrangle it all a bit better!

         I love that it can group stuff up by host, that makes it really easy to clean up some of the tabs in a few clicks, The duplicate finder is nice too 👌

         1. Zach Leatherman 1 day later

            @hejchristian this would make a lovely review on the mozilla site 🥺

            (and you’re very welcome!)

            1. Christian Alder 2 days later

               @zachleat Great idea! I've made an account to do just that 🙏

               Thanks again, even my partner was amazed when she looked over to my screen! so we've gone and installed it on her browser too :)

   5. Sava 2 days later

      @zachleat I think your RAM looks 90 years old now ... :)

8. Axel Rauschmayer 2 hr later

   @zachleat I recently read something about “open loops” (=unfinished tasks) being a cognitive burden and am wondering:

   What if it were easy to add older open tabs to an archive of links (and close them)? Data per link:
   • URL
   • Title
   • Topic (crucial for retrieval—think one or more short tags such as “JS”, “politics”, “cooking”, etc.)
   • If available: date of the tab being opened
   • Maybe: Date of last update of web page

   Users would have to be prompted for a tag—unless a tab is in a tab group.

   1. Zach Leatherman 2 hr later

      @rauschma yes! there is definitely something productive there. syncing to a bookmarking service would be lovely too.

   2. Stolzenhain 7 days later

      @rauschma @zachleat I do this with the “Save Tabs URLs” add-on that exports tabs to a scratchpad. There are similar ones for better formatting .. but all of them re-open pasted URLs, too.

      You place them in your knowledgebase or just a mail draft and prepend the current date (though the draft would have that, too). With a searchable title, this is easy to get back to. Also: my mail drafts are synched, so I can open them on any machine.

      https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/save-tab-urls/

9. devolute 8 hr later

   @zachleat This is very good. Clean. Clever. But uh… is this the best thing for ~~your~~ our mental health?

   1. Zach Leatherman 10 hr later

      @devolute maybe I should add a Bankruptcy button

10. John Harris 12 hr later

    @zachleat This is a great extension!

    1. Zach Leatherman 22 hr later

       @rodneylives thanks John! (This would make a great review on the addons site 🫣)

11. Triple ⁂ 16 hr later

    @zachleat @kupfers we, (firefox) tab hoarders, recognize each others.

12. Robin Whittleton 21 hr later

    @zachleat I wasn’t expecting 72 of my 509 current tabs to be duplicates 😅

    1. Zach Leatherman 22 hr later

       @robinwhittleton we have the same problems

13. Private reply 2 days later
    1. Private reply 2 days later