this lashes are great allies in our browser sessions and it’s normal for many users to open a dozen or so in a typical session. However, there are those who open tens, hundreds or even thousands of them in a single session.

This is the case of Michael Salim, a developer who says he usually has over 200 tabs open in the browser to work on his blog. thanks to several extensions This way, surfing the Internet is not a chaos for him: thanks to them, he has everything perfectly organized and can clearly review his browsing history.

A new way to work with (many) tabs

The concept of tabbed browsing has been evolving in recent years, and indeed Browsers like Microsoft Edge they wanted to take full advantage of this feature and enhance collections with vertical tabs and “sleep” tabs. Vivaldi also comes up with original ideas like “Accordion Tabs” and some of these improvements can be applied to Firefox as well.

The truth is, tabs pose a problem: many open can reduce the performance of our computer. Each of these is another process with essentially dedicated memory, and opening them too much consumes available memory and can slow down the entire workflow.

Not only is this a problem: with so many tabs open, it’s hard to “navigate” between them and find the person we are looking for. Favicons can be helpful sometimes, but when tabs get smaller, it’s often difficult to remember which tab you’re currently looking at.

Vertical (and nested) tabs are a great idea for browsing sessions with many tabs.

Salim explained here how he used various extensions for Firefox to solve all these problems. One of them is the Tree Style Tab extension, which allows it fully. access vertical tab mode It’s like an enhanced version of what we have in Edge.

One of its advantages is new tabs we open from someone else are “nested” to it and tracking our session journey and asking “how did I get to this website?” They make it easy to answer the question.

Other extensions like Vimium also help, making it possible to control all sorts of browser options and tabbed browsing. through keyboard shortcuts. This video explains it clearly: it’s easy to go to the previous or next tab, but it’s also easy to use some sort of integrated tab search engine that allows us to find what we want to keep seeing.

Panels on Sideberry.

What about memory consumption? As we said, memory consumption increases dangerously as we open more and more tabs, and this is where we can use extensions like Sideberry. This extension organizes open tabs in “panels”, a kind of virtual desktop where it is possible to “split” our browsing session into different areas.

The good thing about Sideberry is, it’s also allows “download” tabs (Similar idea to edge sleeper tabs). This means that although the tab is accessible, it is not actually using any resources and also is not consuming memory. This means we can open new tabs while others are downloading, so it won’t slow down our computer. Meanwhile, Chrome had created a similar experimental feature a long time ago.

Therefore, we are faced with an interesting way to make better use of browsers such as Firefox. open more and more tabs Without affecting the performance of our PC and without going crazy from one tab to the next.