Just to chip in with why I personally refuse to use Chrome:
-A window begins to be unwieldy at 15 tabs, and is impossible to navigate at 20
-Occasional Flash problems render the browser utterly useless for several minutes before it asks whether I am interested in continuing what I was doing
-Not visiting a tab for a while results in a ridiculous wait for it to load
My screen size makes having multiple rows of tabs simply take up too much screen space.
You might like Opera. It handles dozens of tabs beautifully, and you can group tabs into collapsible groups so you can both (a) navigate them and (b) see them all on the screen at once without having to scroll.
> -A window begins to be unwieldy at 15 tabs, and is impossible to navigate at 20
Interesting. This is actually one of the big reasons why I prefer Chrome over FF. FF does the whole "make my tab bar scroll" while Chrome resizes the tabs to fit.
What about Chrome's implementation do you find more unwieldy than Firefox's?
Tab Groups. For those of us who do lots of research and like to keep it organized it's a godsend.
Right now I have 159 tabs open -- I was curious so I decided to count. If I tried that in Chrome I'm pretty sure it would crash and burn hard, not to mention there would be no ability to keep it organized.
I know there are some research workflows that would allow me to do that as well, but I haven't really taken the time to dive into them after I found tab groups.
The only way to figure out that UI, including how to exit back to the browser, is through trial and error or Google. At least tabs/tab groups closed in there (seriously, who adds an "x" to an undo changes button that permanently deletes it instead?) go in "recently closed tabs" now!
http://i.imgur.com/WwnW8.png - a screenshot of Chrome with 20 tabs open. As you can see, determining what each tab contains is rather hard. I agree that scrolling the tab bar (using mousewheel, the UI buttons for that purpose are utterly useless) in Firefox is extremely unwieldy, so the only time I use it is to get to tabs I have at either end. "List all tabs" is an amazing feature, IMO.
-A window begins to be unwieldy at 15 tabs, and is impossible to navigate at 20
-Occasional Flash problems render the browser utterly useless for several minutes before it asks whether I am interested in continuing what I was doing
-Not visiting a tab for a while results in a ridiculous wait for it to load
My screen size makes having multiple rows of tabs simply take up too much screen space.
Honestly, I just haven't had any complaints with firefox (beta channel) apart from the recent interesting decision to change dragging tabs to bookmarks to require hitting ctrl - https://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.apps.firefox/bro...