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[Sirus]

So I found the tab groups screen (Ctrl+Shift+E) in Firefox. I will never have less than 100 tabs open at once again.

Edit: For some reason the [abbr] underline thingy doesn't show up anymore.

Hm, what's all this then, a firefox feature I did not know of?
ctrl-shift-e
....
*drags school stuff over to it's own box*
O_O
I have never truly browsed the internet before now, my horizons are now infinite.

What does it do, exactly? It just looks like a list of open tabs.

[Frumple]

What's the Internet Explorer equivalent if there is one?

Mocking laughter in the distance, I think.

... more seriously, IE 8/9 apparently has tab grouping, as well. Just... check the help file or something. Or do a google for IE tab grouping.

Incidentally, tab groups really annoy me and I still haven't figured out how to turn them off in Opera

Spoiler: This is how Frumple does tabs (click to show/hide)

Is slow past few weeks, really.

[Greiger]

It allows you to separate your tabs out into groups, so that you can have dozens of tabs open at once without running out of space at the top.

For Example I now have Bay 12 related tabs in their own group.  When in the bay 12 group it looks like I'm only at bay 12.  But I can hit the groups button on the right side of the screen and it shows me all my groups, Bay 12 Stuff, Guild Wars 2 stuff, Cataclysm DDA stuff, School stuff.  And I can just click on one of those groups to bring up those tabs.

It's essentially like having multiple firefox windows open, except 100% easier to navigate.

[Sirus]

...How do you create these groups? Sounds crazy useful, but I'm not getting anything by right-clicking or whatever. Maybe this version doesn't have the proper functionality...

[Greiger]

You drag one window within the box outside the box.  That makes a new box that you can move and resize how you see fit.  You can even name the boxes at the top.

[Sirus]

Clicking and dragging! Dear me, I didn't even think of that. I'm used to right-clicking for most every functionality

Does it actually improve performance at all? I notice that having several tabs open and loaded tends to slow my computer down over time, to the point where it could eventually crash.

[Rose]

I manage tabs by only opening the ones I need when I need them.

Am I a heretic?

[Descan]

Kinda.

I at least bookmark the ones I want to read later and never open them again.

[Greiger]

Not actually sure of that bit.  But It's too late at night for me to do ‼SCIENCE‼.  It's helpful organizationally at least.  And would certainly help me doing school related stuff for me to not be sidetracked by that one bay 12 tab between Speech and Programming classes.

And since the school computers use firefox I might be able to use it to cheat during tests too, just keep Wolfram Alpha and stuff like that in another group while taking the test.  Looks like the only tab I have open is the test.

[SalmonGod]

Kinda.

I at least bookmark the ones I want to read later and never open them again.

Oh god I have a bookmark folder labeled "Queue" that's bloated as all hell at this point.

[Mech#4]

What's the Internet Explorer equivalent if there is one?

Mocking laughter in the distance, I think.

... more seriously, IE 8/9 apparently has tab grouping, as well. Just... check the help file or something. Or do a google for IE tab grouping.

Incidentally, tab groups really annoy me and I still haven't figured out how to turn them off in Opera

Spoiler: This is how Frumple does tabs (click to show/hide)

Is slow past few weeks, really.

Heh heh, that looks like the frame-bar from Flash.
I only really ever have 3-4 tabs open. One for Facebook, one for this forum and one for Youtube/google/whatever.

[Cthulhu]

My head is suddenly just bursting with ideas for stories.  Some of them are great, some not so great, others just bizarre.

A Detroit machinist gets his arm chewed off in the gears of a malfunctioning piece of equipment, and finds his body slowly turning into machinery.  The story covers his initial panic, his attempts to leverage it into some kind of vigilantism (I'm thinking someone close to him gets in trouble, like organized crime trouble, and he just fucks it up), and finally just self-destructive anger and violence directed at the guy responsible for the accident.  Call it Iron Man.

A meek, unassuming man lives a life of submission to his work, his peers, authority, everything.  One day he wakes up and his identity is gone.  No one remembers him, his birth certificate, drivers license, everything has vanished, and anyone who loses track of him for more than a few minutes completely forgets about him.  He abuses his new power in increasingly transgressive ways until he either regains his identity or comes to some sort of bad end.  I'm not sure, I've only got the concept in my head.  I guess you could call it social commentary, about how anonymity brings out the monster in people.

This last one's a more straight-up horror story, about a guy who goes too deep into the local swamp and finds something terrible, which in turn inspires him to do terrible things.  A shameless pastiche of Billy Lee in The Secret World.  In the game, a hippie commune moves into a mansion for a festival of hippie stuff, Billy Lee is one of them, he goes out into the local forbidden swamp and sees this shit and promptly decides to kill everyone at the commune.

So what do you guys think?  Which of these, if any, should I work on first?  I'm leaning toward the second.

[Scelly9]

The second one does sound interesting.

[Frumple]

Obviously, you must triple-down and combine the three.

[Xantalos]

The second reminds me of that thing H.G Wells did ... the Invisible Man or something. Also the Ring of Gygas.