I closed a lot of browser tabs
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I closed a lot of browser tabs
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Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#2Is that a lot?
I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14.
I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#3Is that a lot? I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14. I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
When you have this many tabs, do you actively manage them or even have any idea what they contain. How do you find the information you need amongst 3000+ tabs. Isn't it annoying to have to shuffle through lots of windows with lots of tabs? I start to lose track after a dozen or so.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#4Is that a lot? I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14. I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
I just don’t understand how anyone could have less than 14 tabs open at any time. Just using a search engine requires at least 4 at a time, and I’ve often got four or five searches going at any time. And then there’s at least a half dozen communication tabs.
Even when I declare browser bankruptcy and close whole windows dedicated to some topic, I don’t think I can get my total count below 14.
I mean, I get that my workflow is unique, but I’m apparently truly out of touch with typical browser usage.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#5Is that a lot? I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14. I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
When you have this many tabs, do you actively manage them or even have any idea what they contain. How do you find the information you need amongst 3000+ tabs. Isn't it annoying to have to shuffle through lots of windows with lots of tabs? I start to lose track after a dozen or so.
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Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#6Vivaldi allows placing the tab bar vertically[1], I've used this since Opera times (an Opera founder departed the company after its Chinese takeover, and started Vivaldi), I currently have around 120 tabs open in 5 windows (actually you can also scroll on the tab bar itself), yeah too damn many.
I suppose people without AppleScript can write a browser extension that iterates through all the tabs and report the count to a Grafana. It would also be interesting to also record ages of tabs (e.g. time since it was opened/time since it was last seen)...
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#7Is that a lot? I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14. I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
I just don’t understand how anyone could have less than 14 tabs open at any time. Just using a search engine requires at least 4 at a time, and I’ve often got four or five searches going at any time. And then there’s at least a half dozen communication tabs. Even when I declare browser bankruptcy and close whole windows dedicated to some topic, I don’t think I can get my total count below 14. I mean, I get that my wo…
I regularly have only one or two at once. When I am done with a tab, I close it - this makes it very simple. Sure I might temporarily open 10 at once when searching, but many will be culled within the first 10-20 seconds of reading the page as either the info I need is not there, or I've found what I need so can close the rest.
Occasionally when cross-referencing stuff I will go up to perhaps 5 or even 10 in extreme circumstances, but then - as before - I close the tab when I am done.
For stuff I want to come back to "later" I just use a bookmark instead of just leaving it open.
At work I tend to leave email chat and calendar open all day, but that is only an extra 3 tabs.
In my experience - both at work and at home - it is better to concentrate on only a small number of things at once and try to work them through to completion (or as far as you can get) so you can just drop it from your head when you are done and not need to dedicate and brain energy on juggling all these differen "in-flight" tasks. I find it easier to concentrate and way more productive to finish a task and then move on, rather than context-switching every 2 minutes and wasting endless time hunting for "that tab with that thing I need" on it.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#8Is that a lot? I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14. I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
I just don’t understand how anyone could have less than 14 tabs open at any time. Just using a search engine requires at least 4 at a time, and I’ve often got four or five searches going at any time. And then there’s at least a half dozen communication tabs. Even when I declare browser bankruptcy and close whole windows dedicated to some topic, I don’t think I can get my total count below 14. I mean, I get that my wo…
All non-pinned tabs are temporary. I may get to over 20 sometimes, but I always aim to deal with them and get back to 3 or so. Usually I do it within the day, sometimes I have some unfinished long articles or something that stay open a few days.
I used to have hundreds of tabs like some people. At some point I started to get very bothered by having too many tabs. I don't remember what happened, but I always keep a low count now. I make heavy use of bookmarks and qutebrowser's quickmarks, and have pretty good luck pulling stuff from my history as well. Some tabs just get bookmarked and immediately closed, like if I find an interesting project on github but have no plans to do anything related to it.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#9Maybe this a generation thing, I never have more than 10 open, on average.
Anything worth keeping, bookmarks.
Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs
#10Is that a lot? I think I've got Firefox up to 3500, indeed I mentioned this when I went to a meetup hosted by Mozilla, and they said that few people use more than 14. I think some of the tab tools start to make it unstable, but the root issue is that it'd be good to clear down browser tabs often.
I just don’t understand how anyone could have less than 14 tabs open at any time. Just using a search engine requires at least 4 at a time, and I’ve often got four or five searches going at any time. And then there’s at least a half dozen communication tabs. Even when I declare browser bankruptcy and close whole windows dedicated to some topic, I don’t think I can get my total count below 14. I mean, I get that my wo…
As answered on a fellow comment, my average are 10.
Anything not being used is closed and kept in bookmarks.