Ben Boeckel
The nice thing about surf is that it opens a window per page, which means that they are all visible to xmonad, and navigable through things like GridSelect, which would not be the case if I simply had two dozen tabs open in Firefox. However, sometimes tabs are nice - specifically, it's practical to use CTRL-clicking to open new pages in the background.
Do you have any suggestions on how to deal with this? Some combination of Firefox hacks and xmonad layouts? How do you set up your browsers?
Personally, I just drag Firefox tabs around as needed. As for uzbl, I use a mix of Tall, TwoPane, and Full layouts to manage lots of windows depending on the case. Tall is used by default, TwoPane when I'm going through a list of things (bug tracker, emails, images, etc.), and Full for focusing on a single window.
This makes it hard to deal with having two dozen tabs open across several different windows, however. It is annoying, because in xmonad this is already a solved problem for windows... I have come to the hypothesis that the best solution is to write a Firefox hack/extension that allows GridSelect[0] to present the Firefox tabs as well as windows, and if a tab is selected, not just select the Firefox window, but also make it focus that tab. Too bad I don't really know anything about writing Firefox extensions (let alone one that can communicate with other processes), but I guess it is not too late to learn. [0]: Well, really a personal fork called gsmenu: http://sigkill.dk/pub/configs/xmonad/lib/GSMenuPick.hs -- \ Troels /\ Henriksen