On 2014-06-21 15:27, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 06/21/2014 07:42 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Let's face it, guys, we're all *NIX minded. I recall seeing office users in the days of DOS3.3/WordPerfect4.2 with a home folder that had hundreds of documents, and they wondered at (a) the poor performance and (b) the inability to save any more.
That was simply lack of training. I had to teach the office staff how to create directories of their choice and store documents in there, by client name, or project, or year, or whatever. That they could store 500 files if they wished, but locating one was easier if they "got organized". FAT was a simple filesystem, that was used for more than it was designed for. It could grow to thousands of entries per directory, if you insisted, but it became very slow.
I suspect that later versions of Windows that had "My Documents", "My Music" and "My Photos" was an "automatic" effort to get around this and lead the users that MS had been dumbing down into using folders at all.
It was a way to lure dumb users into using directories without knowing they were doing so ;-) That's something Microsoft is good at. Hiding technicalities and making things easier. At least the easy parts... Complex things become even more complex, because you have to fight the automatics. I did read about using Directories in Microsoft documentations for many years. But people did not read those documents. Office staff simply got into "roblock"⁽¹⁾ mode when they tried. ((1) hint: Asimov) I'm sure that Microsoft dedicates millions of dollars to design software that is easier, and they do a fairly good job of that. The goal is create appliances like washing machines. Of course, a technically minded person like us despises that. ;-)
So you didn't know about Groups? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/tab-groups-organize-tabs
Not really. I just had a quick look once. So, "Ctrl + Shift + E" displays a quick view of the open tabs in the current window - but not in other windows. The instructions says how to group tabs, but those that already exist in that Window. I don't see the advantage of "group" compared to "windows"... I have my related tabs grouped on different FF windows. I rarely have more than a dozen tabs per Window. My problem is navigating Windows, not tabs. What I need is a single view of ALL opened FF windows and ALL tabs on each, with a little icon, right, and a text, be it url or tittle. With search. And features to close a window saving the links to all the tabs, like a group bookmark. That group feature is not good enough for me. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)