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I'm always surprised people hoard tabs. The explanation is always some crazy shit and they're basically bookmarks to some
I view bookmarks as being for sites that I intend to visit regularly enough to warrant making a handy link. A tab is for a place I plan to visit once, probably soon, but not right now, so I want to remember it, but not to the point where I'll make a dedicated bookmark link to it. Usually it's a video I want to watch at some point when I have more time, or a recipe I think I'll try making in a few days. The issue is when I don't get the motivation to do what I kept the tab open to do, so I start getting a backlog of tabs that I simultaneously don't want to lose because I kept them open for a reason, but I don't want to visit because there are too many of them to parse through.
Look into extensions like "read it later" or the like if your browser doesn't support it out of the box. It is a list of things you need to read/view once and when done, it is removed from the list.
You may find handy the extension "onetab"
Nah, the tabs have to be in the way. The inconvenience of having a lot of tabs is the point. If i can just export a list or turn them into bookmarks and forget about them, I will. It's like the 10 different alarms that I have on my phone that go off every week on the off chance that this time I'll actually be motivated to do what they're reminding me to do. I always get around to it eventually, it just takes time.
I just use bookmarks for that. If it isn't worth bookmarking I'm just not gonna bother. I'll find it in the history if I want to for whatever reason (almost never happens)
if i bookmark something i might as well have deleted it (my object permanence is bad). when it's a tab i can at least see it there at all times
There's the bookmarks bar. I use it mostly for most used stuff but if you have space there you could just save stuff there. It is visible but not as a tab
But if tabs work for you, no reason to change that tbh
Yeah it kind of makes me irrationally angry when people try to defend it lol