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I prefer The Great Discarder [1]; saves more memory, and Chrome starts very quickly even with thousands (really) of tabs open. To put another way, Chrome becomes usable almost immediately, with much less time elapsed than needed to shut down.

Tabs Outliner looks interesting. Is this a replacement for the "vertical tabs" extension I've seen others rave about for Firefox?

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-discarde...

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It is like Tree Style Tabs but with better keyboard shortcuts, handles a tree of the entire browsing session and not just for a single window and it can act as a session manager where you can close entire (sub-)trees without losing their tree hierarchy. It also can (periodically) upload the tree to GDrive and allows you to restore the hierarchy on different devices.

The drawbacks are that some features are paid only, it is closed source and afaik, it doesn't even work on other Chrome-based browsers because it relies heavily on the Google account login.

Tabs Outliner looked interesting. Four things I noticed in a cursory tryout:

* I did not see a way to search tabs. * I like how the sidebar auto-updates based on the selected window, but it does not do so to the point of always making the current tab visible in the sidebar * The sidebar window interferes with CLUT,[1] my "Alt-Tab between tabs" extension of choice. * Most seriously, I notice a slight but perceptible slowdown when opening new tabs and moving between tabs.

Since tab-navigation speed is important, and I need to search for tabs much more often than an always-visible vertical list, I've gone back to Tab Manager Plus;[2] before that I used TooManyTabs.[3]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toomanytabs-for-ch...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clut-cycle-last-us...

[2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-manager-plus-f...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/toomanytabs-for-ch...