can I watch an intervention for a tab addict
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2025
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surely bookmark exist, why not bookmark your opened page ?
i remembered my old friend who has tons of chrome tab filled with porn
There are search in tab title extensions around, if your herding extension for the thousands of tabs not already supports that.
Pretty sure Firefox can search for open tabs directly from the Awesome Bar out of the box. Can't remember the specific character that activates that filter on the bar. Maybe ^ or ~
For the record (because I just looked it up, as I also have this problem): it's ctrl+tab, but only if you enable "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order" in Settings first.
Default behavior is for psychopaths.
I'm so confused every time I use a new browser.
Isn't it alt + left? I could swear I've done it before (but maybe not on Firefox...?)
That's the back button
My brain can't handle more than a dozen open tabs. If I need more than 8 or so, I'll sling some in another browser instance. I honestly don't know if this is because I'm dumb or smart, but at my last jobs the smarter people always had about 2 dozen tabs open. LOL, no one ever rebooted.
I work with someone who never closes a tab. They'll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn't bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.
I had a user that did this with outlook emails all the time. Since she was in leadership, we had to put up with it. At one point we even had to escalate it to Microsoft and they came back saying that Outlook is simply not designed to be used in such a fashion. That did not dissuade the user at all. After maxing out the computer specs, she ended up exceeding the actual limitation of the software for resources used.
I think eventually she got fired for incompetence for other things. It was quite a relief.
For other things? That just speaks to the incompetence of the morons above her...
Firefox tabs survive reboots and waste about as much resources as a bookmark. Those people should really migrate.
You can set Firefox to purge everything when you close it, not sure why its not set as default
clearly they need more RAM
i know that you're suffering but, still, thanks for the laughter ! @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml
Dude answered his own question. Click random tab -> drag current tab off the window -> window returns to previous tab without any tabs being closed.
Unhinged behavior nonetheless
Best start a new tab and Google whatever you were looking at.
Crtl + L to go to address bar, type % then a space, then the tab you looking for. Will search open tabs
In this I wish Firefox was more like Chromium. I use tab search a lot and Ctrl + Shift + A is much more efficient than this 3-step combo
- will let you search your bookmark. I think there might be one for history as well.
Plus there might be a similar macro in Firefox I just don't know about
Helpful, but only works if I remember the name of the tab.
It's either Facebook or Facebook.
Or TvTropes
This is why tab search is a thing 😭
But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I'm dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I'll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.
It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.
That seems perfectly reasonable. That is little more than 100 tabs per window. I routinely have more than 500 tabs per window. Currently, I have 3 windows open with a rough total of 15000 tabs
Bro use the fucking bookmarks feature. Your electric company will appreciate the 10% reduction in grid load.
Why?
ADHD is like that.
No, it's really not. That's a gross inability to let things go, not forgetting you found something intersting once.
Fine AD4K is like that.
Meanwhile when I was looking for a new browser a bit back I tried finding one without a tab feature at all lol
How much ram do they have?
in case you're not aware: modern browsers don't actually keep all tabs loaded all the time.
Shhhh don't make us feel old.
all of it
I was wondering why I couldn't find mine. I figured I just had short term memory loss.
This is the way.
probably shift-command-tilde, since command-tilde is “next tab”. You can remember it because it’s one key away from command-tab and shift-command-tab to go to the next application and previous application.
@aard@kyu.de is that an actual issue for you?
treestyle tabs helps a lot with tab organization. Reasonably amount of tabs can't really be managed with the default tab interface of any browser (haven't tried the recently added native vertical tabs yet - they also added in tab groups, which I was heavily relying on before they ripped it out a bit over a decade ago. Not sure if I'll find back to my old workflow after all that time, though)
Is that you Scott?