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I'd say it's both.

Anecdotally, to me being able to see the whole title and in a vertical list is just enough to like it, it makes it so much easier to find something among a shitload of tabs. Also, I feel it's a much better use of space in widescreen displays.

The tree part of it is less important, but also very useful to visually group related tabs.

Task-managing feels wrong to me in most (all?) OSes I've tried. A browser window with 100 tabs, relating to different research topics and ideas, feels wrong.

For that, I'd rather use one window per topic, and have the tabs in there be related, and that's what I tend to do. It's not always comfortable, and having several big/fullscreen windows from the same app in MacOS is a PITA. Also, you don't always know how much a task is gowing to grow and branch out...

I'm always curious to know how other people deal with this and how they feel about it.




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