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Tree Style Tab - give me space!
Elliot Kirk Since I last posted, and now that Edge Dev is able to use the Chrome store, I have been using Tabs Outliner, and have even paid a small sum for the full version (a few extras, but it helps encourage the developer). It has an amazing set of features, and if used carefully it can be a real benefit. The key feature is that it can close your tabs for you, thus releasing memory and resources, yet still remember them and reopen them at will. It can manage several different browser windows, and close them and reopen them at will, even days or weeks later. It has been exceedingly useful while doing family tree work, so that I can keep different lines of research apart, and even suspend them when I need to do real stuff, and return later.
It would make a good base for a Microsoft option.
The irritating thing is that I cannot dock the Tabs Outliner window with the other Edge Dev windows; they have to be manually sized and sometimes seem to go out of line. That is why I gave up on it a year ago when I tried it in Chrome. At the time I just went back to Firefox, where Tree Style Tabs worked well. But having now used it for a couple of weeks, it is so good that I would even consider a third screen just to put the Tabs Outliner window into.
fedupwithusernames Tabs Outliner sadly isn't the way forward.
It lost its paid for abilities in Edge, Edge beta and Edge Dev, because it cannot cope with the updates to Edge, saying it is not registered. It was a chrome add on, and Microsoft say there may be issues.
I still use it a lot in Chrome (+beta +canary) which have therefore become my goto browsers instead of edge. Sadly the developer seems to have gone missing, having been responsive. That means the paid for version can save the tab tree to the cloud, but not restore it. It is a minor irritation solved by saving locally to a pondering folder so it syncs across my computers.
Firefox is still a goto browser but because tree style tabs needs the tabs open to work well, it gets to cluttered. With tabs outliner, it is like having a tree of dynamic favourites that remember the last page used on a site.
Please Microsoft - if one lone developer could do it.... surely it is easy for an organisation like yours.