I am ruthless with my tabs. I always close them all at the end of my day. Just like Inbox 0, I aim for Tab 0. Serenity is the reward for this small disciplined effort. Close them. They're not going anywhere. You can always find the links back tomorrow. An entire multi-million industry wants you to find them back as easily as possible. You might even find better ones when you start fresh. It's just your loss aversion…
I used to use the Bookmark all Tabs to a folder feature at the end of each day. It's the equivalent of sweeping it under the rug, or creating a folder named desktop_new and burying everything there
Doesn't Tab Overview in Safari on macOS already does that? ( Without the Drag and Drop Part ) The problem is its current implementation completely kills your SSD if you have too many tabs. The problem has been going on for years. To the point I have to manually disable Tab Overview gesture and icons.
Safari's Tab Overview is unfortunately not like the OP's idea. The lack of dragging, and also because there's no way to zoom out further and make visual groups. And I suppose being horribly slow with many tabs makes it very different from the OP's idea too. I also found Tab Overview is a disaster if you have too many tabs. I've occasionally been looking at Google Maps and done pinch-to-zoom-out. Big mistake: Safari z…
>and would typically show as using 30-40GB memory while I realised I'd have to kill and restart the Safari process to get back to work.
I have the exact problem with pinch to zoom. I had to disable it to stop Tab Overview from loading, once ran out of memory it will start paging everything to SSD, which is why I said it is basically kill the SSD.
I still dont know why the Tab Overview wouldn't automatically become a list view once it is over certain number of tabs.
The real problem here is that the "back" button doesn't really make anyone happy. If it were instantaneous (like the page was kept alive in an invisible tab, essentially) and preserved state, then 75% of the use cases for tabs would go away. The remaining use cases are more around opening a bunch of links from the same page, so we'd keep tabs around for that, but maybe auto-group them with the page of origin for some…
Huh? The back button renders the previous page absolutely instantaneously for me in Firefox and Chrome. I am plenty happy with the Back button. The problem is that my browsing is not at all linear. While reading one page, I'll open 3 or 4 links in new tabs to read once I'm done with the current one. (I have done this already on this very HN comments page.)
I just wish there were a way to save page state along with a bookmark or similar. Sometimes I'd really like to close a ton of tabs, or just close my browser, or a whole window, and reopen tomorrow. But I'm relying on scroll position to know where I am in 20 different documents, or login credentials that only last for 24 hours, or certain comment threads that have been expanded while others have been collapsed, or my…
This is (bugs withstanding) what Firefox does if you choose to"Restore previous session" int the General/Startup section of about:preferences . This feature is provided by a Gecko component called the the session store ( https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/compone... ).
Yeah I've been relying on this for about a year and have been really impressed. It's the first restore browser session I've ever used that just works. I never get "oops corrupted session, start over!" errors, etc like I used to get with chrome. Everything just fires back up with all the tabs, all the extensions, even all the different browser windows I had before. And it handles ungraceful shutdowns/restarts really well (which sadly are far, far too common on this early generation Ryzen APU laptop and the current mainline Linux kernel :( ).
Tree style tabs on the side of my window absolutely changed my computing life. I stopped seeing tabs as a collection of what Im doing and instead started using them + the browsers inclination to save my tabs across restarts to track everything. Ill have a tree of tabs for blogs im reading, a tree for work stuff, a tree for amazon orders, etc. All that context can be closed in a single click. Ill have hundreds of tabs…
I agree, I'm the same. People who sneer at large tab collections don't seem to realise that when they can be put to sleep, tidied away (various extensions allow groups to be folded), they are more like advanced bookmarks and working context. Or, they think there is no justification for having such collections. For me they are working context for different projects over years. Working on project X a month ago? 6 month…
> I asked people what they do to tackle my sorts of projects. The answers were always the same: Some ums and ahs, and it turns out they don't. They just don't take on the same kinds of things.
And what are these kinds of projects that you are the only one to tackle?
I am ruthless with my tabs. I always close them all at the end of my day. Just like Inbox 0, I aim for Tab 0. Serenity is the reward for this small disciplined effort. Close them. They're not going anywhere. You can always find the links back tomorrow. An entire multi-million industry wants you to find them back as easily as possible. You might even find better ones when you start fresh. It's just your loss aversion…
That multi-million industry does a good job at burying the content that's not fresh any more, and not a very good job at filtering out SEO manipulators. Good luck googling for that article from a year ago that had a nuanced comparison of A and B.
I am ruthless with my tabs. I always close them all at the end of my day. Just like Inbox 0, I aim for Tab 0. Serenity is the reward for this small disciplined effort. Close them. They're not going anywhere. You can always find the links back tomorrow. An entire multi-million industry wants you to find them back as easily as possible. You might even find better ones when you start fresh. It's just your loss aversion…
That multi-million industry does a good job at burying the content that's not fresh any more, and not a very good job at filtering out SEO manipulators. Good luck googling for that article from a year ago that had a nuanced comparison of A and B.
I also find search engine result signal to noise deteriorating in favour of SEO-crafted content.
On the other hand, that article from a year ago is most probably outdated by now.
Let’s call it 200. You have 5 days in the week. So that’s 40 tabs you need to visit each day. 5 different tabs each hour, just to get through them. Even! Even if you need to visit all those different things - you know what they are and you want to go there, so why not hit cmd-l and autocomplete on the name from any tab and open it? If I want intercom, I type ‘app.i - enter’. Why would I want it open?
In April 2021 I visited 5036 pages, 167 pages a day average. In the last week it was down to 157 a day. Because I've spent more time in head-down coding. 5 tabs an hour, hah.
I feel you. April 2021 : 7752 pages visited.
Generally 300+ tabs in firefox. Mostly in chunks corresponding to home or work projects that take months or longer to finish.
I feel like there are broadly 2 groups of tech literate users; those who like lots of tabs and those who keep things lean. I absolutely cannot relate to the first group, as much as I try to understand the mentality. When I’m digging deep into something new I might end up with 20 tabs, but a) it’s an exception and b) the moment I can see no more value I just close them all down and reset.
Looks like I've 81 tabs open in this Firefox window. It's not uncommon that I'll be over 1k (across one window per monitor). With `%` to search across open tabs, and an unused tab not really taking any meaningful amount of resources (especially with Auto Tab Discard) I open a whole load of tabs, close them if I realise I'm done with them while I'm looking at them, and if I don't close the tab then that's fine -- it's…
> With `%` to search across open tabs
...No way. That's my TIL for the day. Am I the only one who didn't know about this!?