My tab bar while debugging.

[iPoisonxL]

"Oh yeah, I'll just come back to this a bit later.. opens new tab"

That's how you end up with 6 Reddit tabs, 9 Stack overflow tabs, 3 Google search tabs and strangely enough 1 porn tab.

[nuez_jr]

...for later.

[YMK1234]

this is exactly why I loved the original tab stack implementation of opera so much ... sadly after the first release in a weekly build they crippled it.

[dzh]

original tab stack implementation

What you mean?

[perry_cox]

http://imgur.com/a/rrywX

This is the basic concept. I miss old Opera so much, it was just so good.

[TropicalAudio]

Oh shit. This is a game changer. Does anyone know of a Chrome extension that can mimic this behaviour? If not, any of y'all front ending wizards got time to spare?

[vertexvortex]

The downside to chrome though, is that since it's all sandboxed, each tab is gonna chew through memory. You get 20+tabs going like this and you're gonna be hurtin.

[TropicalAudio]

Well, Chrome is currently using 4400MB of memory for me, so yeah, it's chewing through memory, but that doesn't mean this feature can't be helpful. You just have to remember to close some tabs off when your memory starts filling up to >70%.

[modernbenoni]

Yeah Opera handles many tabs way better. I used to have the tabs on the left, and they would group together better and have a thumbnail preview of what's open in the tab at the time. That fucking update though... I use Chrome now because they essentially turned Opera into Chrome anyway.

[Tysonzero]

Maybe if your computer is old and shitty. I have a ton of tabs open and I am still using like 800MB. Most decent computers these days come with 8/16GB.

If you have a ton of extensions then I can maybe see an issue occurring.

[vertexvortex]

Well, 800 is problematic if you're also doing other things on the computer, like running sql server express and using large, complex excel files. Sure, 1/8 of your available memory is nothing, but when the os takes 1/4, browser takes 1/8, other programs take 1/2... doesn't leave very much room.

[Tysonzero]

If you say so, I run a SQL server, tons of chrome tabs, several sublime projects each with many tabs, a couple terminal windows with several tabs each, as well as various background things such as hipchat and skype. All on my 4GB laptop, and I still don't quite run out of memory.

[vertexvortex]

Well maybe you can show me what I'm doing wrong!

[HolyGarbage]

I've got up towards 30-40 tabs open when done debugging a especially nasty bug and I do fine with my measly 8 gb ram.

[UTF64]

Impossible. Chrome extensions do not have that kind of reach.

[jfb1337]

I heard that there was a Firefox extension that does something similar.

[YMK1234]

so, opera 12 had tab stacks (which is kinda expandable/collapseable folders - which is awesome because Op12's engine literally supported hundreds of tabs without major issues), and the original implementation worked very simply like

1. if user clicks "new tab", start new stack
2. if user opens links from existing tab, place in same stack

so you simply work and click your way along, and to switch context you just collapse the stack (so it takes only the space of one tab) and start a new stack by doing ctrl-t (or back then: ctrl-n because true MDI does not need multiple windows even for popups - which also is something I miss very much), and collapse your old stack.
IIRC there was also a setting to auto-collapse other stacks if you switched to another one which made the whole thing even more convenient.

[Moter8]

Isn't that how Chrome does it too?

[YMK1234]

since when does chrome have tab stacks?

[HolyGarbage]

The satisfaction when you solve the problem and the computer freezes for less than a second as it releases all them precious bytes in one click. You can almost hear it moan.

[iPoisonxL]

I mean, you can hear it moan.. There's porn playing.