I am reading a text and there's a link in it, that I want to follow up. But first I want to finish the text, so I open the link in the background.
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Most people I know who do that use them as kinda bookmarks. Tbh, I do also sort of do this on my phone. I keep some tabs open with stuff I still wanted to check out. And every now and then I go through them and close the ones I don't need. But on PC I just close the whole session with all tabs when I'm done
porn? some people watch some embarrasing content that they dont want people seeing.
Those are fucking rookie numbers.
Too stupid to use bookmarks.
Have you seen the price of RAM lately? You gotta do something to make sure you're getting your moneys worth.
Saw a Loops video about it a few days ago. Other than that, I have no idea.
No need to worry about RAM prices since you can always just download more RAM.
I will come back to it eventually, when the time is right.
It's not important enough to bookmark, it's not urgent enough to get to right now, but it's too interesting to ignore entirely. When the time is right for a tab, I will return to it. Sometimes I scroll through them to jog my memory. Sometimes I'll decide it wasn't as interesting as I thought and delete it.
That’s sort of like the “watch later” feature in YouTube. Hey, wasn’t Firefox Pocket meant to be like that?
People have that many tabs open for the same reason people have full piss bottles next to their computers.
I'm seeing a lot of excuses in this thread for their poor habit.
I have close to 200. Every task I start has a new set of tabs. In theory I’ll complete them and work my way back through the stack
Why not just close them and open them back up later? Like you can bookmark the pages so you don’t lose your spot but I find it annoying to find the tab I am looking for at around 10 I would imagine it’s much worse at 200
You can search specifically for open tabs in Firefox and probably most other browsers (enter % [keyword] in Firefox' address bar). If you tend to have related tabs near it, it's less work than opening all those tabs back up through bookmarks or history.
HO HO HO BOY you should not have told me that. My tab hoarding is about to become infinitely worse 😈
Join the dark side 😈
At about 10 I start questioning things. You'll either forget what the tab was about so it wasn't important, and if it is important, well, you found it somehow in the first place, you'll find it again.
"Close tabs to the right" and we're done.
I hate the default way most browsers handle tabs. Moved over to this setup years ago and I'm definitely never going back.
Firefox plus either Sideberry or Tree Style Tabs - both will organize your tabs vertically along the side of the window in a tree format. Follow a link in a new tab, it opens up as a new branch under the current one.
Pair that with Auto Tab Discard to keep memory usage down, and something like Open Link with New Tab to automatically open links across domains in a new child tab.
Now I tend to just collapse trees of related tabs and further organize broad related subjects in windows.
Interesting. Let's open those links in the background.
I used to use sideberry too, now I'm on the zen browser firefox fork and its pretty great
From some comments I've seen about this back on Reddit, it seems like some people don't know about bookmarks.
But also professionals, like a lot of Lemmings, tend to keep a lot of tabs open for references or other material they need to check often and quickly. Faster to leave tabs open than reopening the page every time you need to check something on it.
To some extent, I do that as well. However, in my case, it’s not hundreds of tabs. More like 5 sites that I reference frequently enough to keep them open most of the time. I also have bookmarks for the same sites so I can quickly open them when I need to.
However, what I’m really curious about is the people who have hundreds of tabs open all the time. What kind of workflow is that how does it work?
but once I’m done, I close them all
Same. But I also have a continuous stream of new projects that never get finished.
When I have a lot of unfinished things going on, they begin to bother me. I need to close things and start from a clean slate. Doesn’t that bother you at all?
Oh, so much. I'm still trying to figure out how to actually complete things.
Idk it's crazy to see the browser windows of some teammates during screen share.
Read the thing, write down the relevant stuff / copy it to reference notes, bookmark it with raindrop or something that allows you to tag for context, close the whole browser.
I keep bumping into Raindrop all the time, but nobody explained what it is. As if everyone already knows what it is. I didn’t, until I finally took the time to open that site. In a new tab, obviously 😀
Anyway, seems like a pretty neat idea. So, how does that better than using normal bookmarks of your browser?
I do for work because I usually have to recall information and don’t want to look it back up every time.
Pro tip: Auto-unloading the tabs (via extensions) certainly helps retain memory.
Interesting. I should look into that. What’s your favorite auto unload extension?
You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders....
right?
You know every modern browser has bookmarks, and I think all of them have a bookmark toolbar, and the ability to organize bookmarks into folders....
I’m fully aware, however, I am not about to start bookmarking job’s labelled as #20000 -> 50000 and all their PDF’s, documents an such. Some jobs last 2+ years, like bridge projects, whereas other last a couple weeks to a month, easier to just leave tabs open for what I am focusing on within that current month.
Edit: If I really wanted to do that I could just self-host a bookmarking service that way bookmarks stay centralized, but then I’m taking work home, so screw that.
You might get some use from Jira or a similar tool..
Yeah, but they you gotta organize it, and garden it, and maintain it. Or it's just another useless dump of probably useless information. This can be difficult for folks with ADHD and similar.
Not to mention that many tabs are transient, they are not meant to be permanent. Making them permanent means they are out of sight out of mind and will pile up even more
I view my tabs as very transient, but I’ve learned that many people consider them much more permanent than that. Some even compare them to the files on your computer, which is mind blowing to me.
However, everything that is out of sight and out of mind will pile up. For example, various work related files, like documents and spreadsheets tend to accumulate over the years. Most of them are just there waiting for that one day when I might need them. If someone secretly deleted 50% of my files, it might take years before I would notice.
But that’s an interesting point about tabs. If you can’t see them, they will pile up. Totally agree with that. However, many people still prefer to keep sites as tabs rather than bookmarks specifically because they can see them all the time.
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Uhhh because I need them all
All 500 of them?
Maybe not now but I will need them eventually
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