• acosmichippo@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    even without AI, to me tab groups are already feature creep bloat in browsers. do people really put that much effort into organizing tabs?

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      8 days ago

      No, but I think the idea of a second layer of organization to tabs is a wonderful idea. Maybe not a gig of RAM to sort them, sure.

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      8 days ago

      Yes, especially at work. Different tasks, different tab groups. Once the task is done, the group dies. Really useful when working on multiple tasks at “the same time”.

      Pair that with multi account containers and temporary containers and it’s a godsend tool for web dev.

      Now does that need AI in any capacity? Absolutely not! I’m more upset that they’re even considering such thing because ir sounds utterly useless. A browser should do the browser thing and get out of my way.

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      8 days ago

      For work at any given point I have 17-20 tabs open. It’s totally useful for me to sort them into tabs to cut out the “noise” when I’m doing research.

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      8 days ago

      It is to some people. My approach though, when I happen to have multiple “work group” to organize, is just to use my OS ability to have multiple windows. No need for any extra bloat, the feature is already there, and it works as I’m used to.

      But apparently, using the tools already available to you is not a common skill these days :(

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        8 days ago

        But apparently, using the tools already available to you is not a common skill these days :(

        So, are you not understanding that other people work differently, or are you just not using that skill?

        Besides offering different approaches for different preferences, there are clear benefits to the extra level of organization. As an additional exercise, try to picture someone using multiple windows and tab groups.

        Not everyone operates on the basic level. Hell, why even have tabs? The OS can manage multiple windows, and you can use multiple desktops to achieve the same result without that bloat.

        • cley_faye@lemmy.world
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          8 days ago

          So, are you not understanding that other people work differently, or are you just not using that skill?

          The very first five words of my message was that this was useful to some people.