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If they're lost, I wasn't meant to have them. (lemmy.world)
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[–] Donjuanme@lemmy.world 1 points 7 minutes ago

I lost 5 years worth of restaurants and travel places I'd been secretly saving to do retirement trips with my wife someday (lol, retirement...)

They got moved to "archived" and then apparently they get removed from archived after 30 days unless you disable that "feature"

I went to add a restaurant one day and the entire set of tabs was gone. No idea how long it had been gone for, and browsing through my history of closed tabs on my cell phone was neigh impossible.

I'm still incredibly salty about that.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 31 minutes ago

For all y'all thinking closing 800 tabs is bad, that's a habit exploited by session stealing attacks to take your money, socials, and email.

[–] Killer57@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Laughs nervously

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

How? Why?

[–] Johanno@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 hour ago

I can delete them any time. I am not addicted. I definitely need them again at some point

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Bro, every one of those websites has now seen everything you've done online with the cookies. I think. I have firefox set up to clear on exit, and do so multiple times a day if using it a lot. Obviously after porn, but other stuff too.

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

If the tabs truly love you, they will come back.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

They don't, the tabs are using you, they will leave you after you don't serve them any longer. Whores.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago

Fucking philospher over here. Fuck restoring tabs though. It's bad luck, there might be a reason it crashed that has to do with evil spirits.

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

I'm screwed - I use Linux.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Your OS use so little RAM so you can open too many tabs and since you never restart you hoard them like a dragon?

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You're screwed because you use a fully featured OS with many browsers that have that exact feature?

[–] Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I don't do so many restarts.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Haha ok got it

[–] MoffKalast@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

Firefox on Kubuntu always offers to restore tabs for me, like some kind of crack dealer.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 25 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

I'm always surprised people hoard tabs. The explanation is always some crazy shit and they're basically bookmarks to some

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 20 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

You may find handy the extension "onetab"

[–] Signtist@bookwyr.me 1 points 52 minutes ago

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.

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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)

[–] shneancy@lemmy.world 5 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Saapas@piefed.zip 2 points 3 hours ago

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

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 hours ago

Yeah it kind of makes me irrationally angry when people try to defend it lol

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Tabs are ephemeral

I don’t even save history

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 21 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Funnily enough, on firefox on my PC I have an entire extension called "no tabs" which does exactly what it says and disables tabs. On my phone just never open any tho :3

[–] Zorcron@lemmy.zip 8 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Disables tabs? Like you have to close one site to look at another? I am envious that you can make that work.

[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 5 points 4 hours ago

Well, if any site attempts to open a new tab, it'll just automatically pull it to a new browser window instead :3. Otherwise in general I would have to close the site im looking at if I wanted to open something else in the same window, rather than launching a new one

[–] JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 5 hours ago

Maybe it's just me but I've never had a problem with building up too many tabs. Like I can't stand having more than like four.

Bookmarks, however, I have a lot of bookmarks.

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 hours ago

I have like 50 tabs across various groups. A lot are things I want to read but haven't gotten to yet, a few are just work (email, slack, onedrive). Some are for job apps. I do restore my tabs lol.

Bookmarks are messier because the papers aren't necessary all the time and their citations are in endnote. But if I bookmarked all the papers I'd have some thousands which is too messy in a browser.

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 4 points 4 hours ago

I honestly pisses me off that restoring tabs is default behavior. If I closed the browser I meant too and if I didn't mean to oh fucking well. If I wanted to save that shit for later it would have been a bookmark.

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I've honestly started doing that at least once a week and it really feels good for my mind to let that go. I can find whatever site it was later on when I actually need it again

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

Have you heard of bookmarks? There's even a bookmark bar that is right up there near the tabs. You can even edit the bookmark and delete the name so it's just a tiny icon on the bookmarks bar.

[–] scytale@piefed.zip 1 points 52 minutes ago

People who have a hard time wrangling tabs will just have the same problem with bookmarks.

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

But I don’t like bookmarks, they’re way more work. Sure, if I’m trying to get the best performance possible, I’ll close my browser (all tabs will reopen when I start the browser again), but I mostly need a fuckload of tabs and a word processor, so it doesn’t normally impact my usage to have a bunch of tabs open.

[–] X@piefed.world 2 points 4 hours ago

blasphemy burn the witch cease your lies

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

On Monday morning turn on the extension “tabs2text”

Export to markdown and paste into an Emacs org-file under a new date.

Close all tabs and turn off the extension.

Now you are clear to start another week without fear of losing a link and without the burden of any open tabs.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago

Sometimes I’ll declare tab bankruptcy and just close the whole window. If it’s important I’ll find it again

[–] mashugana@nord.pub 4 points 5 hours ago

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was.

[–] c64z86@piefed.social 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I prefer to just have one tab open unless I'm copying or pasting or have to reference something from another site at the same time.

My goldfish memory makes me forget about the other open tabs after a while anyway, so they become useless xD

[–] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 hours ago

The fun of being a supervillain

[–] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

I switched to vertical tabs and started using tab groups so I never lose anything I don't mean to (I treat non-grouped tabs as ephemeral)

But that's just because I always have the same stuff open (LAN services, but also videos and music because I use tabs like a pseudo playlist)