Firefox Clutter
Confession: I used to use Windows as my main operating system, and for a long time I used Internet Explorer as my browser. As a 14-year-old, I always saved my money to buy as much memory as I could, because at any given time I'd have 20 or 30 browser windows open. When I discovered Firefox and tabbed browsing, I dropped down to 5 or 10 browser windows, but they had 10-20 tabs each. My room was also cluttered as a kid.
Now I use Mac OS with only a single Firefox window, but I still have entirely too many tabs open. This mostly results from links appearing outside the browser, such as links in instant message windows and emails. I usually open these links once, look at the page, then forget about them. It would be really nice if I could specify one of Firefox's tabs as a "junk tab", to be reused for all external links.
I can't think of a clean way to fit the feature into Firefox's user interface, but I'm looking forward to the new bookmark management system.
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Michael, The magic is gone! The magic switch does not work.
Yes, tabbed browsing didn't change much, except the number of browser windows opened in the taskbar :no: you could use diigo for bookmark management, helps getting rid of many to-be-seen-later web pages & synchronizes between browsers, whether they were on the same machine or different machines.