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And now the my answer to this (short note - everything the original author mention is true, but the tool is not aimed meantime to cover this case, it is a bigger and more ambitious goal)
Tab management
Tabs Outliner is good for dumping selected tabs to it. It is not so good for retrieving selected tabs, as you have to sift through countless duplicates accumulated over different browser sessions. It does not provide for an easy way of organising things by grouping and/or tagging - especially if you're no fan of drag and drop. Search is also limited to Chrome's built-in Find, which can only search for words in web page titles in this case. Using Tabs Outliner for some time now, it ultimately made me look back to the potential of using Chrome's default bookmarks/search and tagging for tab management. The key here is not to let tabs accumulate, but rather save them as bookmarks and tag them, or even add them as todos in a task manager.
Thank for this very nice review. I think it worth duplicate it there and respond to it to clarify some things for people who will read that (the comment system in original blog is premoderated, and seems have some bugs, so not sure my comment will be visible). So, next go the original review from posted link.
Also please describe how crash is looks, is this full browser crash, or only the extension. And of course the most important information is the Chromium version and what Linux you use.
> I'm curious to know where to start troubleshooting this.
What linux, what version? What is your Chrome/Chromium version?
Have many Linux users, and many my friends use it on linux -- you first who report such things.
I saw in Chrome Web Store several extensions which advertise self as renamers for tab titles:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-renamer/kfkmkfkllgjihelfoflhnkaphiobfkcp?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rename-this/lcpjdhnnehkbbdcmdieijglnoiakofdf?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-title-tweaker/ofmanndkbkkcjolgenmgioploikhkcaa?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-title-change/piefokfpahdmgbdcgjedphlckidlmalp?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/for-tabs-titles-replace-w/hkmgdjoabfbkheibfjhoklipbbkpbddf?hl=en-US&utm_source=chrome-ntp-launcher
(also might be helpful to look in Related tab for all this entries)
Yet I never tried them...
dbl-click can be changed to one click in settings.
But the aim of this tool is slightly different than in Sidewise, basically i don't trying to replace the tab bar (i for example switch tabs most of the time using the standard one, despite TO is also always open for me), and the main aim is not to be the tabs manager at all, or even the organizer with some grand schema, but rather a some sort of Internet diary/notebook (much less polluted than the history), without some sort of central scheme, but rather with some local organized islands of data and notes.
That is why dblclick... and many other decisions, unfortunately, the work is far from done to completely unleash the potential of this idea. Full keyboard support is needed for this and much better editing capabilities for notes and so on.
The donations is near zero, so do not bother to donate, this will not change anything. It's always very motivate, and i highly appreciate them, much more than the money they actually bring. But taking in account that unlikely you are the target user of this tool, does not use it as it's expected to be used, and, as so, will unlikely be very happy with it, I am really not very comfortable to accept them in this case even if you decide that this tool is worth it. That will create unneeded tension for both of us : )
Best Regards,
Vladyslav.
PS I am actually plan to implement some sort of workaround for this reassociations of reopened windows, but i cannot promise any date for this, as meantime there huge other more important tasks, as in this project as in some other my endeavors. The Chrome issues that i mention will make it actually 10 times more easy for me, it will be possible to done in a day, also it will positively affect many others works (including Sidewise), and fixing this on Chrome side is also must be a much easy task than invent awkward workarounds (it's actually way more complex than it is looks). So personally i also plan to fix/implement this in Chromium first, yet really have no time...
Also, the Group is not just a window. It's control how much will be restored, and restrict this. You can utilize it anyway for tabs that you don't want to restore every-time you reopen you one big window. It is handy anyway as this way you will not lose their surrounding.
Yet i am really not use the browser this way. Prefer big number of smaller windows. So maybe my advises will not be very useful. I think there is really enough tools which concentrate more on this one big window scenario (TooManyTabs, SessionBuddy, Sidewise - to name a few), and my focus is in some other niches and on some other users.
But this shortcoming you mention is really worth to deal with. It is not something that i don't want to work around or is irrelevant for multiwindows users. Yes, they tend to close the Browser completely much rarely, if at all, but the same issue catch them after everything is crashed - that is why i not recommend use the Chrome Restore after crash and to restore from TO - so if somebody will fix the Chromium issue i mention this will really benefit all of us, note that this issue have the comments from the author of the other very popular session saver. So many other extensions also will benefit from this.
At least worth to star it to raise some more attention to it.
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Tags are planned. Meantime i use set of predefined tags in notes like #design #toprint #ui #js-lib and then do search for this. Works for me. And it is a little more than "can only search for words in web page titles", no? Better search is also on its way, but the built in is not that bad actually and have some very nice features like highlighting the places in scrollbar. And this is definitely the first tool in which i do search through my tabs at all. And where do you find the tags in original browser bookmarks?
But the primary idea is not to organize anything. I never be able to do so. Nor with bookmarks, nor with the anything else. The primary idea to be some sort of free form notepad, and to deal with a problem of hundreds open tabs - to easily close them any moment you wish. And then, then next goal is not to organize all of this shit, but delete! But not trash all at once, but as selectively and timely as you wish. That is why drag and drop is so important, and the idea is that everything can be dragged on anything, that is why the delete screencast is one of the 2 screencast i post in Quick Start section.
So yes, for organizing, collecting and so on you will be better served with some other tool. When you find one please report - it is very interesting. No one is work for me despite i use dozen of them.
What i find as the best way to search and to retrieve the links - is the google!, not some limited personal bookmarks storage.
Saying all of this I should add that actually tags is fantastically useful, as i already said i use some primitive preserved keywords to emulate them, and this is the next big feature after adding the server side which i plan to implement - tags with autocompletion and the much better search (again, with tags auto completion and other cool features)