Hi, I am considering building a browser extension/website that saves your browser tabs for you. I have a problem of having lots of browser tabs and not wanting to close any of them when I want to shut down my mac. Are you having this problem too? Would you use a browser extension/website that allows you to save your browser session and recover it on any computer/browser anytime?<p>Thanks in advance for the feedback.
Plenty. Which is why I'm back to Firefox after a longer stint with Chrome, due to the Tree Style Tabs add-on, which makes managing them pretty easy. Quite often I've got a bunch of related tabs under one node at the very tob, as some sort of "read later" deal (e.g. several sites about vim customization, extensions etc.).<p>With recent Firefoxes, this takes none to little memory, and is definitely save from restarts - I use the dev channel build (Aurora), so I often restart the browser at least daily.<p>Syncing between several computers would probably be nice, but I don't need and want a total sync between e.g. work and home, so I would need to pick the tabs I'm loading in the other browser. And the only option of me using a given extension like that is if it would support the aforementioned tree extension, i.e. wouldn't just give me a flat batch of tabs.
I also tend to have over a dozen tabs open at any one time, and sometimes keep multiple windows open, each with tabs that are (loosely) centered around a given task.<p>I think a lot of people have the problem of having too many tabs open, but for me, I've never used a browser in recent memory that couldn't restore my previous session even after quitting unexpectedly. Being a Safari user on a host of Apple devices, I also don't have too much of a problem with syncing tabs, though the solution is far from perfect. It would be interesting to access your current session on any device using any browser seamlessly, though.<p>I'd really be interested in an alternative to tabbed browsing that intelligently categorizes the web pages I have open according to the task or activity to which they relate. Like most people, I have multiple things I'm working on on my Mac that have corresponding tabs open all in the same browser window. The issue is that it becomes increasingly difficult to access the relevant information the more tabs I have open. It would be cool to just be able to ask 'Siri, show only those tabs I have open that correspond to the article I'm researching.'<p>I'd also be interested in a dead simple way to 'flick' the web page I'm currently viewing on my iPhone to my Mac or iPad. For example, I'd love to be able to flick this comment from my iPhone to my Mac and finish typing it there.<p>In any case, I think you've definitely hit on a problem that could use a better solution.
Not sure this extension is necessary. Chrome and Safari have this built in, so I suspect you're using Firefox, in which case I'd expect them to clone this functionality soon.
I'll have any from 20-200 at any given time, depending on what I'm doing. I've been using Chrome lately, and it's quite frustrating that tabs are only saved in the last closed window. Some sort of way to save an entire session (i.e., window), would be quite nice.
Something that auto-retires tabs after some egregiously long delay, with some kind of latent tagging functionality (based on tags for similar pages I've bookmarked) might be useful.<p>Then again, it will probably just encourage me to open more and more tabs...