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Posted by jimspoon
Aug 25, 2012 at 06:06 PM
I use several different computers and essentially two browsers (Chrome and Firefox) ... suffer from tab clutter. I’d like to find a way to bookmark all my open tabs in one fell swoop to a database in the cloud, preferably organized chronologically and also by tags. Just something to enable me to find what I’ve browsed before, whatever device/browser I was using. Haven’t yet found the ideal solution.
I haven’t found any way to bookmark all my open tags to Google Bookmarks, or Delicious, or Diigo.
I’ve tried syncing bookmarks with Chrome, Firefox ... but Chrome and Firefox don’t work with each other. Tried Xmarks - but it’s not tag based. Also my Chrome bookmarks got screwed up .. I think it was because I had Chrome and Xmarks sync working at the same time and got in some kind of infinite loop.
any ideas?
Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 25, 2012 at 08:47 PM
I see a number of options, mostly using Firefox and Chrome extensions. I’m not yet very familiar with the Chrome extensions, so here’s my take from the side of Firefox:
- Extension Session Manager “saves and restores the state of all windows - either when you want it or automatically at startup and after crashes. It can also automatically save the state of open windows individually.” I installed it, and it is quite flexible. You can select where it will save sessions, so you can point it to a Dropbox folder to access from other machines.
- Extension Bookmark Current Tab Set “adds options to bookmark all tabs in a window (optionally without opening a dialog) and store them in a new bookmark folder that is given the current date (and optionally the time) as its name.” The benefit here is that you can then export the relevant folder to a simple HTML file, which Chrome too will be able to open.
Posted by Ra Rem
Aug 26, 2012 at 02:32 PM
There is excellent extension appear recently on Chrome Web Store.
Exactly for such situations:
Tabs Outliner
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/eggkanocgddhmamlbiijnphhppkpkmkl
It is meantime not synchronize tab trees between different computers, but I am recently wrote to the author and it is assure me that this feature is in active development.
And from what I already see (use it several weeks already) it is much more useful than bookmarks for “too many tabs” situations.
Actually I even start use bookmarks after that for what it is really useful - to reopen often visited sites. And Tabs Outliner for all others use cases for which I use bookmarks in past (I am also a tab whore : )
Posted by jimspoon
Aug 27, 2012 at 09:38 PM
thanks Alexander and Ra Rem. I will have a look at those extensions.
As far as Firefox is concerned - for managing tabs I have long relied on TabGroups Manager. It gives you a “tab groups toolbar” above the tabs bar - each tab represents a group of tabs. Click on that tabgroup tab, and the tabs in that tabgroup will be displayed on the tabs bar below. (I hope that my explanation make sense!) And when you “bookmark all groups” - it creates a tree of bookmarks in the designated folder - the bookmarked tabs are displayed under their respective tabgroup names. Unfortunately - I have not found anything like it for Chrome.
I had seen Tabs Outliner for Chrome earlier - it looked promising - but the documentation was difficult to understand, obviously by a non-English speaker. But I’m sure I could figure it out with a little time.
I’ve also been trying out the “Chromicious” or “Delibookmarks” extension for Chrome. Supposedly it syncs your Chrome bookmarks to Delicious. Theoretically, I could use the Chrome “bookmark all tabs” function - and then these bookmarks would get synced to Delicious. But I have not actually seen it work yet - i.e. I haven’t seen my Chrome bookmarks show up on Delicious, or my Delicious bookmarks show up in Chrome.
Will keep looking ...
JIM
Posted by Omnray
Aug 28, 2012 at 03:02 PM
>I had seen Tabs Outliner for Chrome earlier - it looked
>promising - but the documentation was difficult to understand, obviously by a
>non-English speaker. But I’m sure I could figure it out with a little time.
Hello. I am an author of Tabs Outliner. Yes, a non-English speaker, you right.
Can I ask you what is most difficult to grasp?
I plan completely rewrite documentation, introduce some more screen casts about all features, and you feedback might help a lot for others - I am long ago use this, and for me everything is very obvious, so I really need a fresh look at it all from someone other eyes.
Vladislav