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drfloyd51 | on: Overgrown, when plants invade your abandoned tabs
This isn’t as useless as it seems. It is a visual representation of how old the tab is. And I control what “old” is.

To put it another way, it helps me recognize which tabs I am using. And which I am saving for later without having to evaluate the content of the tab.

One tweak… the coverage percentage can it be adjustable? Max = 100% looses all information about the pages contents, except the title.

Also also… if the images can be made translucent… you can make old timey effects like yellowing and decay.

paid_dot_expert | parent | next
It also creates a human feedback loop. It will train you to instinctively not keep old tabs open as you need to deal with the plants.
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echelon | parent | next
I'm working on tab garbage collection too!

https://github.com/echelon/browser-focus

I need to add screenshots.

Basically puts an overlay on all timed out tabs, shows all timed out tabs so you can kill them all together, etc.

I want a better algorithm / heuristic that can semantically track what I'm doing.

I might eventually be brave enough to break out of tabs and let my windowing system handle everything.

cactusplant7374 | parent
It discourages and frustrates. So yes, it is useless in terms of modern browsing.