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Text: My browser when I open the 42nd tab and beyond
A 2 panel image of Michael Jordan: Stop it. Get some help.
42? If only I could have so few 😅
Guess I need rehab.
I’ve had about 1000+ tabs open before, but I’ve gotten better at keeping them under control. It’s very normal for me to hit a couple hundred, once in a while, though, before I go through them all and weed out the ones I’m done with. Right now I only have 24, but 19 of them are my pinned tabs that are used all the time.
The sense of loss when you can’t get them back for some reason. I swear I’ve had my career set back by losing my tabs. It’s basically my working memory.
Right? I’ve been training myself to use this one weird browser feature I hardly ever use called “bookmarks.” Shits wild
Bookmarks my friend, bookmarks.
“Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years”
Somehow, not an Onion article
Last year I had 2200 or something like that open, but I haven’t counted this year. FF handles it fine. Chrome wasn’t ever able to handle more than a hundred or so. I haven’t used chrome in 6 or 7 years now though.
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More like save the whole session for later use. Who the hell saves hundreds of even thousands of bookmarks?
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I don’t really understand how bookmarks would help. Like, let’s imagine you’re in your office doing research and your office happens to be the Library of Congress. You have a bunch of books with different references open on the table. You need to go to sleep. Is it easier to write down every single page you have bookmarked and put it on a piece of paper on the table, then close all the books put them back on the shelf, go to sleep, wake up, and then take all the books back off of the shelf, reference your paper, and open every book again back to those pages to continue working? I very much doubt so. Bookmarks are one of the worst inventions of the browser honestly. They do not accomplish anything they mean to. I use bookmarks for one thing. Pages I visit daily and don’t need to remember context in. e.g. github repos. And then I use vimium to navigate to them with fuzzy search. Working projects always stay open and I use Sidebery to maintain groupings.
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Tree style tabs is my enabler 😖
Oh no don’t make me install this
Bookmarks exist for this reason, man
Once you hit 99+ in Firefox on mobile it changes to ∞
Chrome went to a :D above 99. But I believe they changed that, not sure as I use FF now too.
There is a rule about having more than 34 tabs. Search Firefox rule 34 and you can see what happens.
It’s important to tell all your coworkers about this, too
not me using up all 32GB of my RAM with firefox tabs lmao
Firefox doesn’t let all of your tabs have memory all the time. It’s quite aggressive in taking them out of memory into your disk.
A fun Easter egg on Chromium browsers is that, when you get to 100 tabs, the number just turns into a smiley face.
I have that and the infinity symbol on Firefox right now on my phone
Tab suspender and session manager goes brrrr
I once closed 9k tabs on the phone. I swear I felt a mild earthquake and power went off in the whole building. Eye of google appeared before me with hissy “I see you”
The thing is, that eye is always there, even when you don’t see it!
Bookmarking doesn’t work for me, too limited, and starts a horrible trend of duplicating them. So they are useless for tab history managment. Also, the linear tab history is not very useful… same problem, the entries get duped eventually. I often don’t want to restore the tabs from the last day whatever, but restore an specific set of tabs. Some times even multiple sets, and switch between these.
I really would like an Firefox feature, where the tabs would be part of a “tab history tree”. Opening a link in a tab would add it as a “sub-tab” of the parent tab. In history.
So when a doing a search or refining one many times, this would end-up linking all the opened tabs to the originating tab. A new tree of tabs could be started by just opening an empty tab, and a “tab organizer UI” should allow to move/group that into an existing tab tree if needed. (The tab-bar UI doesn’t need to visualize the tree-of-tabs. The tabs would be just auto-organized this way in the history)
I think this would allow to clear all of the currently open tabs in any window, but the tabs could still be neatly restored from the history on per-tree basis in any window. Restoring a tab-tree would allow to continue making refinements to it, or clone it. Currently multi-window tab restoring in FF is kinda borked, and only the last window’s open tabs are restored automatically.
/end-of-wordsoup-for-today.
