I dislike tree style tabs because a typical website is built for consumption by users sitting in the middle in front of it. This is especially annoying when using a laptop and suddenly every website is off center to the way you sit/use keyboard and trackpad because of the tab sidebar.
Hiding the sidebar is no option either because
a) with most extensions the site would flicker because the tree is not an overlay but takes away real space from the viewport
b) and if it is an overlay, learning the spatial tab structure is much harder if its not visible at all times
It's interesting that the default Firefox behavior is to use tab overflow if too many are shown in the top tab bar. You need to scroll to get spatial understanding and this is the main reason I am not using Firefox.
Chrome OTOH will allow many more tabs to fit (with smaller icons/tab handles) and eventually cuts off the icons if it doesn't fit anymore. At the very least it gives you a better spatial overview of where you put which tab
full disclosure:
I have currently 37 open chrome windows with 550 tabs on a MacBook with 16gb RAM. This works extremely well because of the The Great Suspender extension.
I have not yet found any other way that helps with organizing tabs and is better than OS X spaces + separate windows + a fixed horizontal tab bar.
I have great spatial awareness over projects (OS X spaces), time (order of tabs) as well as content separation (chrome windows)
Apparently I am what the article calls a tab collector :)
Hiding the sidebar is no option either because
a) with most extensions the site would flicker because the tree is not an overlay but takes away real space from the viewport
b) and if it is an overlay, learning the spatial tab structure is much harder if its not visible at all times
It's interesting that the default Firefox behavior is to use tab overflow if too many are shown in the top tab bar. You need to scroll to get spatial understanding and this is the main reason I am not using Firefox.
Chrome OTOH will allow many more tabs to fit (with smaller icons/tab handles) and eventually cuts off the icons if it doesn't fit anymore. At the very least it gives you a better spatial overview of where you put which tab
full disclosure:
I have currently 37 open chrome windows with 550 tabs on a MacBook with 16gb RAM. This works extremely well because of the The Great Suspender extension.
I have not yet found any other way that helps with organizing tabs and is better than OS X spaces + separate windows + a fixed horizontal tab bar.
I have great spatial awareness over projects (OS X spaces), time (order of tabs) as well as content separation (chrome windows)
Apparently I am what the article calls a tab collector :)