You might (might not) find my extension useful. I made it for people that horde tabs like you and me. It's a page that lists tabs per window visually and if you click on one of the links it focuses the tab for you.
I just installed it (Tabist reports 415 tabs in 9 windows). Looks tentatively useful, I'll keep it around.
If it's easy to add a by-date-last-opened to the order-by at the top, that MIGHT be useful? If it's easy to add the text of the window title to the table, that MIGHT be useful? Those are just top-of-my-head spitball ideas.
415 tabs! Wow, that's even more than I typically have... 200ish over many windows.
One thing that is not 100% clear is that you can press cmd-shift-e to bring up the tabist page. or ctrl-shift-e if you are on windows/linux.
> by-date-last-opened to the order-by at the top
That's planned but not easily attained information from the browser so it'd have to be tracked by the extension from the startup of it.
> If it's easy to add the text of the window title to the table
That's how the extension works but there was a bug[1] that I fixed in firefox that needs to be propagated through the builds in order for it to show up in release. I believe it will land in firefox 51 which comes out early next year... yeah 2017-01-24 is when it will be released[2]. If you want it now you can get on the beta build and it will be fixed.
Thanks, I will definitely try this one since I use tons of tabs as an interface for "read it later" stuff and avoid forgetting about them altogether.
It'd be nice to include the favicon (if available) next to each link so that a visual scan is easy to perform. Otherwise a "Find on page" (Ctrl+F) would have to be used to find something in a list of a few hundred tabs. Sort options like the ones mentioned in another comment here about the date added, and additionally grouping links by domain, would also be useful.
I hope it is useful for you! The favicon is actually already displayed but I didn't update the example gif yet.
Sorting by the date added/visited is a planed feature but a little tougher to get from firefox so it will take a little bit of work. The extension actually has a group by domain sort(but not strictly group by domain as it's grouped by window first)
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/
and chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog...
It's also open source: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
If you end up trying it, let me know if you find it useful/hate it or have something that should be added :)