Sort/group tabs by domain/ date/ alphabetically) on request

saturnus

I'm using vertical tabs + sessions restore. this causes some kind of excess of open tabs over time. I'm personally still proponent of housekeeping tools helping me sorting this out

I'm having old tabs open from past session (lets say based on week of surfing) where I'm kind of clueless what my idea was. I certainly was in the process with something. Got interrupted. Starting doing something else. But the old maybe outdated or maybe still interesting. Or maybe I copied interesting bits already (and forgot to close the tab). I'm having tabs which not sure if actually bookmarked it

Tabs are for me also 'visual' reminders of things I did look up, I might want to follow up. Or checkout again (before bookmarking)

The point is mostly I'm using the browser for looking something up (with session restore butting my old state back). So end-result is I don't clean up and add even more tabs . Until the point I get really annoyed (mostly performance issues) or starting having trouble to finding last activated tabs (120-150 tabs)

I'm positioning new tabs next to current tab (and open plenty of links in new tab). So even the there is no 'structure' within my tab list. It's more or less random combination based on past behaviour. Co-incidence

So happy to 'use manual sort' once in a while. To get more oversight. Say by domain. This would make it more obvious noticing having Vivaldi forum open in 4 tabs (and my webmail account 3 times). Instead of those being present scattered through my tab list.

Yes, you can argue: user failure. You must be more disciplined. But well in creative or look up mode I'm not carrying to much about my tabs (and I don't even want to). As this is disturbing the workflow (being busy with 'triviality' of arrangement of tabs). Where this constantly shaken up with new tabs (and new information). So kind of pointless exercise (and waste of effort).
And well you could argue the same for say Excel. If you manually arrange everything you don't need sort. And if you need different arrangements, open a new sheet and sort you 40.000 entry's. Yes, a browser is not Excel :P. But don't hold to tight to the idea of doing things manually. And tree outliners or file managers have the same feature.

So I'm reasoning under the assumption having 100-200 tabs open. And needing some 'tools' making tidying up bit more fun. Someone already tried shorting all you're tabs (say 150) on different domains manually :P.

So this for users who are less structured or love to look something up (while being in process in something else); so summarize: doing some kind research for example (but surely more cases).

And sorting is not 'something' terrible complex to implement.

Pesala

@saturnus Already available.

Open the Window Panel, and sort by domain.

saturnus

@Pesala
Ok, didn't check that. And yes, you're right. And it approaches what I envision.

But I want to sort my tab list as such. The 'regular' horizontal/vertical tab list. Else window management would be done in the panel by default (which surely not something I would advice)

And closing a tab with middle mouse click in panel ends up closing the tab + activating scroll feature.

I don't actually see what the 'objection' is for tab sorting option as such? Why is it only done it the panel?