I’m always surprised people hoard tabs. The explanation is always some crazy shit and they’re basically bookmarks to some
Yeah it kind of makes me irrationally angry when people try to defend it lol
If I bookmark it I will forget about it and never visit it again.
Could put it in the bookmarks toolbar I guess. But sounds like many people hoard the toolbars because they want to visit the sites but never actually do
Laughs nervously
How? Why?
I can delete them any time. I am not addicted. I definitely need them again at some point
it opens another level of “why” when you realize according to those stats, they have 5 other windows that have a cumulative 474 tabs. the 863 is just that window
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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.
Do it
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
Disables tabs? Like you have to close one site to look at another? I am envious that you can make that work.
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
Tabs are a new thing. They have not existed as long as browsers have.
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.
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
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.
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.
I just find it really laborious to organize bookmarks properly when you get into the hundreds, and it’s more work to delete and easier to forget which in practice just means I still have decades old bookmarks I’m not interested in anymore. Tabs at least are in the way so I can remember to close them. I do use a few extensions to make it all a little easier to manage when I do deep dives into something and “need” ~50 new tabs for a little while.
People who have a hard time wrangling tabs will just have the same problem with bookmarks.
It’s not the same problem though because they’re not actively draining your memory.
Maybe browsers have made that less of a problem, but only because so many people were misusing tabs in the first place. So they had to make them more like bookmarks so it wasn’t strangling people’s PC
Yes, but the OP in this thread is talking more about the mental and organizational aspect of tab/bookmarking, not RAM. Someone who isn’t great at managing tabs will also have a hard time managing bookmarks.
blasphemy burn the witch cease your lies
I will open 15 tabs, forget why, and just close my browser. I keep history off. Writing a commemt? Doesn’t matter. Email? There’s probably a draft. Half finished video? The algorithm will guide it back to me if it was meant to be.
I dream about one day achieving this vibe. But what if I need it later???
Redo it. Don’t overwhlem yourself with managaing everything all at once. If needed, plan your actions, but leaving your life in a constant state of chaos is really only a distraction. When you do come back, you had enough incentive to return. It’ll help motivate you to finish stuff.
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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.
This is what bookmarks are for. I have folders of bookmarks.
If the tabs truly love you, they will come back.
They don’t, the tabs are using you, they will leave you after you don’t serve them any longer. Whores.
Tabs are ephemeral
I don’t even save history
Insanity. Those are all things I want to look at later.
It 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.
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)
Set them free. If they come back it’s meant to be.
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.
