![]() ![]() Unfortunately, most of these extensions are created by single developers, can be dropped at any moment and have terrible design (not all of them, but most). There are extensions that help with it: from The Great Suspender that intelligently unloads the unused tabs to OneTab that helps you save sessions to things like Tabbs that just help you find anything in your browser. Go hunting with your mouse or use shortcuts to switch between the first 9 tabs and left-right. But I doubt browsers actually work well for the second category – or do anything about this scenario at all. Personally, I’m in the first category as too many tabs immediately make me anxious. People who have two hundred tabs at least.In general, there are two distinctive ways people deal with browsers tabs: Google could have led us and turn all OS into literal launchpads for their own web apps would be highly beneficial but instead they dropped the ball. Even if you “install” them, manually change the icon to look good, you’ll soon face issues, for instance, it’s impossible to change an account in Google Calendar without being thrown back to the browser. All of their most popular apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, or Docs don’t. For some reason, only a couple of Google services, such as Google Photos, are actually available as a PWA and look like a well-behaved local app. But in order for the experience to be smooth you really need the app to be a PWA, otherwise, it’s too finicky for a regular user. It creates a local shortcut for this webpage and launches as a dedicated app within your OS. PWA and in-built Chrome’s functionality to “Install” apps could have helped. Still, they live in the same area and occupy the same shortcut space (Cmd-1,2,3,…,N). Most of the time I have 3-4 most important apps pinned right there and I’ve seen a lot of people do that. Everything is a tab and all tabs are the same and each belongs to some window – which are also the same. We went from web pages to web apps but the UI paradigm hasn’t really changed. I’m mostly using Chrome as an example because it’s at least 57% of the modern web and is expected to be the most advanced but you could look at most other browsers and you’d see the same picture. Yet the actual UI barely changed in all these years. Now, look at this Chrome from 2008 or so. The whole definition of the web browser changed – it’s not just something you use to “surf the web”, it’s where people often do all of their work: email, calendars, documents, design, even code with things like Github Codespaces or Replit. We went from basic Hacker-News-style HTML pages sprinkled with a little bit of Javascript to running full-scale applications like Figma or Descript – something you wouldn’t believe to be even possible in a browser ten years ago. Our browsers are astoundingly outdated and their developers seem to be oblivious to that.
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