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Taboo Remembers Tabs So You Don't Have To
Posted by Kevin Purdy at 11:10 PM on April 18, 2008
Windows/Mac/Linux (Firefox): Firefox makes it pretty easy to save all your open tabs into a bookmark folder, but Taboo makes it really simple to keep everything, including form text and scroll position, in an unseen memory bank. Installing Taboo adds two buttons to your browser, one to mark and another to call up Expose-like thumbnails of what you've tagged, with quick-elimination searching and calendar or grid views. For projects involving a lot of info-juggling or preventing a cool bookmark from falling from memory, Taboo is like having someone take dictation on what you've found on the web. Taboo is a free download, works wherever Firefox does.
Tags: browsers | downloads | featured firefox extension | firefox extensions | memory | tabbed browsing
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ma5t3rw1tt
Posted 12:22 AM 19/4/08
Here is a suggestion for this extension that might be useful to some people like myself.
Taking the same concept of this extension, why not take a snapshot of all current tabs opened. So say I had the following websites opened:
Digg, Lifehacker, Engadget, Gizmodo, Arstechnica, Cnet - Well I could hit a button and it would save all of those tabs currently opened. Then you could tag all those tabs opened and call it "Technology News" and then when you click that, all those tabs would open. You could save sessions of tabs of anything you want, then tag them for later use. I seriously go down my line of bookmarks and open them all up in a tab and read all the new stuff, then close the tab then move onto the next site. This idea might sound good to some, annoying to others, but I wouldn't mind myself having such an extension made :D
ma5t3rw1tt
muffinimal
Posted 12:33 AM 19/4/08
Hmm... The interesting feature of this extension seems to be that it stores the webpage for offline/later use without bookmarking the actual page. I think I'll stick with the Scrapbook-extension. Except for the expose-feature, is there anything else about this extension that would be interesting?
muffinimal
Kektex
Posted 1:54 AM 19/4/08
I already use Session Manager for remembering sessions. What I would like is the Expose like functionality for Firefox. Internet Explorer got this surprisingly right.
I tried Viamatic Foxpose but it's kinda slow when I have a lot of tabs open.Like I do most of the time.
Kektex
SirSmiley
Posted 1:46 AM 19/4/08
@ma5t3rw1tt: CTRL+SHIFT+D will bookmark all your tabs, that is unless it's a feature of an extension I already have.
Also, I think there are a few extensions that do this plus one that has an online service.
SirSmiley
brian8655
Posted 3:21 AM 19/4/08
ma5t3rw1tt,
Isn't what you are describing the same as the "Bookmark All Tabs" button? It lets you enter a folder name which would be synonymous with your "tag". To recall the set of tabs you just right click on the folder in your Bookmarks link and select "Open All in Tabs". This feature along with the "Foxmarks Bookmark Synchronizer" is great.
brian8655
ma5t3rw1tt
Posted 11:33 AM 19/4/08
@brian8655,SirSmiley: Thanks you guys. I did not know these features existed in Firefox. I will certainly try it out. Thanks for the awsome help. Shows how much I know about a browser that I have used for the past few years now :P
ma5t3rw1tt
mimeryme
Posted 6:25 AM 20/4/08
@Kektex: For expose like feature, try Showcase. Speed still depends on how many tabs you have opened, but it does a decent job for my 100+ tab sessions.
mimeryme