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Text: My browser when I open the 42nd tab and beyond
A 2 panel image of Michael Jordan: Stop it. Get some help.
- Skua ( @Skua@kbin.earth ) 35•2 months ago
“Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years”
Somehow, not an Onion article
- tyler ( @tyler@programming.dev ) 17•2 months ago
Last year I had 2200 or something like that open, but I haven’t counted this year. FF handles it fine. Chrome wasn’t ever able to handle more than a hundred or so. I haven’t used chrome in 6 or 7 years now though.
- kusivittula ( @kusivittula@sopuli.xyz ) 3•2 months ago
why not just bookmark that stuff and close the tabs?
- tyler ( @tyler@programming.dev ) 2•2 months ago
I don’t really understand how bookmarks would help. Like, let’s imagine you’re in your office doing research and your office happens to be the Library of Congress. You have a bunch of books with different references open on the table. You need to go to sleep. Is it easier to write down every single page you have bookmarked and put it on a piece of paper on the table, then close all the books put them back on the shelf, go to sleep, wake up, and then take all the books back off of the shelf, reference your paper, and open every book again back to those pages to continue working? I very much doubt so. Bookmarks are one of the worst inventions of the browser honestly. They do not accomplish anything they mean to. I use bookmarks for one thing. Pages I visit daily and don’t need to remember context in. e.g. github repos. And then I use vimium to navigate to them with fuzzy search. Working projects always stay open and I use Sidebery to maintain groupings.
- kusivittula ( @kusivittula@sopuli.xyz ) 2•2 months ago
i thought we were talking about random tabs that have been open for a long time. ofc i wouldn’t close ones that i’m working with.
- jherazob ( @jherazob@beehaw.org ) English22•2 months ago
Only 42?
- BorgDrone ( @BorgDrone@lemmy.one ) 10•2 months ago
Yeah, I usually hover around 300-400 open tabs. I clean them up once in a while but it just builds up again.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English4•2 months ago
I had to install a plugin to just close tabs I hadn’t viewed in a while. I’m certainly not going to develop better tab discipline
- BorgDrone ( @BorgDrone@lemmy.one ) 1•2 months ago
I use Safari which has this feature built in.
- curiousaur ( @curiousaur@reddthat.com ) 15•2 months ago
The sense of loss when you can’t get them back for some reason. I swear I’ve had my career set back by losing my tabs. It’s basically my working memory.
- The Cuuuuube ( @Cube6392@beehaw.org ) English5•2 months ago
Right? I’ve been training myself to use this one weird browser feature I hardly ever use called “bookmarks.” Shits wild
- Emmie ( @Emmie@lemm.ee ) 7•2 months ago
I once closed 9k tabs on the phone. I swear I felt a mild earthquake and power went off in the whole building. Eye of google appeared before me with hissy “I see you”
- Schorsch ( @Schorsch@feddit.org ) 3•2 months ago
The thing is, that eye is always there, even when you don’t see it!
- KeriKitty (They(/It)) ( @RiikkaTheIcePrincess@pawb.social ) English7•2 months ago
42? If only I could have so few 😅
- onlinepersona ( @onlinepersona@programming.dev ) 6•2 months ago
- masterofn001 ( @masterofn001@lemmy.ca ) 6•2 months ago
Guess I need rehab.
- megabat ( @megabat@lemm.ee ) 6•2 months ago
Tree style tabs is my enabler 😖
- pewpew ( @pewpew@feddit.it ) 5•2 months ago
Bookmarks exist for this reason, man
- clb92 ( @clb92@feddit.dk ) English4•2 months ago
I’ve had about 1000+ tabs open before, but I’ve gotten better at keeping them under control. It’s very normal for me to hit a couple hundred, once in a while, though, before I go through them all and weed out the ones I’m done with. Right now I only have 24, but 19 of them are my pinned tabs that are used all the time.
- umbrella ( @umbrella@lemmy.ml ) 3•2 months ago
jesus 20 is already way too much
- randint ( @r@piefed.social ) English2•2 months ago
I have 57 open right now
- rimjob_rainer ( @rimjob_rainer@discuss.tchncs.de ) 2•2 months ago
You mean 420
- rem26_art ( @rem26_art@fedia.io ) 1•2 months ago
not me using up all 32GB of my RAM with firefox tabs lmao