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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by bigbugbag »

Houshalter wrote: post #285
elorant wrote: post #162

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So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I am tab hoarder. It's a serious problem. So many links that I want to read. But I don't feel like doing it right now. And I know for certain that if I put it into a bookmark, I will never ever look at it again. So they sit on my tab bar for months until I get around to it. Looking at my current open tabs, most of them are dense "boring" reading material like scientific papers (or reddit/HN discussions of them.) I fe…

Just don't use chrome, it is not at all suited for this use case.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by toast0 »

laythea wrote: post #68
huntie wrote: post #39

I'm really glad that people at Mozilla use ridiculous numbers of tabs too. Lazy-loading of tabs is the reason I switched to firefox. I'm not sure if it's still this way, but Chrome used to load every tab on startup. So even if you only had 100 tabs, you were looking at 5+ minute startup time. God-forbid that any of them were Youtube, or you'd have to go through and pause them all. I've just updated to Firefox 55 to t…

Yes but I have found that if you "open in new tab" then it loads the page even though it is in the background. It should do as it does as startup but doesn't.

That's probably the right behavior for those people who are never going to open the tab; but for people like me who have few tabs, open in new tab is a great way to load something I'm actually going to read soon; eg open the article in a new tab, scan the HN comments while the article loads (especially if it's from one of those sites that takes 3 minutes to load)

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by bigbugbag »

rcthompson wrote: post #185
elorant wrote: post #162

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So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

Some people effectively use tabs as bookmarks. Or, if you want to look at it the other way, bookmarks are just tabs that don't load until you click on them.

Bookmarks are stateless hence useless for many use cases.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by bigbugbag »

digitalzombie wrote: post #325
elorant wrote: post #162

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So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I tell myself I'll read it when I have the chance so I leave it there. It's not surreal if you think about it. People put off cleaning there room and such... so there are bound to be people who put off reading tabs they see interesting. If you're going to say book mark it then no. My bookmarks are a mess. I've sent Mozilla a suggestion of doing machine learning and cluster my bookmarks for me. >___< Also if they can…

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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by bigbugbag »

hossbeast wrote: post #237
elorant wrote: post #162

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So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

None of the browsers are really that good at letting you get back to things you recently looked at, or had loaded. Meanwhile there are great plugins for searching within all open tabs. When you have a wiki page that you need about ~1 time per week, and can't remember the URL for- just keep the tab open. You're augmenting your limited human memory with the computer.

Opera did back when it was not a google chrome skin.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by [deleted] »

atombender wrote: post #233
elorant wrote: post #162

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So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I wish tabs/windows worked more like persistent "workspaces". For example, say I'm booking a trip. I always open a bunch of sites (Kayak, Booking.com, lots of hotels, Google Maps, places to visit, etc.) in a single window. In pre-computer times it would be like covering a desk with a ton of papers, books and notes. Gradually I will figure out stuff, book the trip, etc. but the tabs can stay for quite a while. I feel…

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Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by sweden »

gkya wrote: post #390
vit05 wrote: post #295

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That's because the bookmarkers sucks. They do not adapt to what you are doing, you need to do a lot of setup and organize a lot to be able to use it well. It should be more organic, grow with the use you make. I still believe that anyone who makes a better bookmark will dominate more than just the browser war.

How do you organise tabs then? I've god knows how many bookmarks and I've been blindly Ctrl-D-ing since time immemorial, only tagging very distinct stuff and modifying titles if too stupid. When I need to get at sth. bookmarked, typing stuff into the url field in firefox just works.

Tree Tab Style.

Try it, then read the original post and the comments again. :)

I think this is the missing piece on all this discussion.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by bigbugbag »

fiveseven_ wrote: post #156
kibwen wrote: post #143

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Do you have to enable it? I use Firefox Nightly, and have been observing this behavior for a long, long time. It's one of those things that's so minor and yet so important that I wonder how I went without it for so long.

I believe it is enabled by default now, and the value in about:config is `media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground`

It's disabled by default on regular firefox.

I prefer to disable media.autoplay.enabled which is enabled by default.

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by emiliobumachar »

atombender wrote: post #233
elorant wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I wish tabs/windows worked more like persistent "workspaces". For example, say I'm booking a trip. I always open a bunch of sites (Kayak, Booking.com, lots of hotels, Google Maps, places to visit, etc.) in a single window. In pre-computer times it would be like covering a desk with a ton of papers, books and notes. Gradually I will figure out stuff, book the trip, etc. but the tabs can stay for quite a while. I feel…

I speculate that general-purpuse virtual machine management software would fit the bill quite well

Re: The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs

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Post by [deleted] »

atombender wrote: post #233
elorant wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So even if you only had 100 tabs This is fucking surreal. Why on Earth would anyone want 100 open tabs, besides testing? What's the real life scenario we're looking at here?

I wish tabs/windows worked more like persistent "workspaces". For example, say I'm booking a trip. I always open a bunch of sites (Kayak, Booking.com, lots of hotels, Google Maps, places to visit, etc.) in a single window. In pre-computer times it would be like covering a desk with a ton of papers, books and notes. Gradually I will figure out stuff, book the trip, etc. but the tabs can stay for quite a while. I feel…

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