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[–] Scipitie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 36 points 1 day ago (8 children)

Tab groups are built for open tabs, bookmarks are built for revisiting things. Their use cases are quite different in my opinion.

[–] TheRealCharlesEames@lemm.ee 17 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Ok but when do you make the decision to invest in organizing open tabs into groups versus bookmarking them or just moving them to a dedicated window. When do you close the tab or tab group -- only when the initiative is over? Do you "archive" those tabs as bookmarks?

And then there's the profile variable

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

just moving them to a dedicated window.

That's the key, it's like having a separate window, but without the separate window.

At work I'll open anywhere between 40 and 100 tabs at a time, but I want to keep them near my existing tabs and not in another window. I have an extension that opens them all in a new tab group. I typically work from the left edge of the group and close out of tabs as I get through them. I can still hop between my non grouped and grouped tabs without having to change windows. And if I want to pause it for a bit then I "minimize" the group like a window.

[–] Flagstaff@programming.dev 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why do you have to "get through them" in a specific order, though?

I don’t have to. It’s just easier to work left to right with the order of the tabs.

This is work work, not just dorking around at home.

[–] DanWolfstone@leminal.space 2 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

Because I have bees in my head that tell me to get through them in order

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