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Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by rjmunro »

I now can't decide whether to leave this tab open as a reminder for me to implement open tabs vs time graph. Rather than run a server on my machine, I'd prefer a tiny extension that sent an updated count to a service every time I open or close a tab. The easiest service to use would probably be a google sheet.

I use https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfein... to let me search through my tabs across different windows etc. and it tells me I have 320 open at the moment in my work profile and 56 in my personal profile.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by account42 »

jraph wrote: post #98
globular-toast wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe. For some reason many people just don't use bookmarks at all. The question is why don't they use them. Have they tried but found it broken? Or have they never tried?

I don't use bookmarks. I rely on history. If I want to find something, I'll type relevant keywords and the page shows up. It works without using bookmarks. I usually memorize parts of urls or title without effort, if I didn't have that I guess I would need bookmarks. I think bookmarks would be good for building lists. Like recipes. But I'm not organized well enough to do this.

Careful, Browsers don't keep infinite history.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by automatic6131 »

ninkendo wrote: post #120

My solution is simple: When I feel like I have a lot of tabs [0], I close all of them. What happens when I close a tab I wanted open? I use browser history. Browser history is one of those things that I feel most people don’t use enough. It’s easy to search, it contains everything you visited, and (for the macOS/iOS ecosystem at least) is synced across devices. A quick cmd-Y and search makes for a very efficient user…

This is the way

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by dgellow »

ninkendo wrote: post #120

My solution is simple: When I feel like I have a lot of tabs [0], I close all of them. What happens when I close a tab I wanted open? I use browser history. Browser history is one of those things that I feel most people don’t use enough. It’s easy to search, it contains everything you visited, and (for the macOS/iOS ecosystem at least) is synced across devices. A quick cmd-Y and search makes for a very efficient user…

It took me a very long time to learn this. I always had multiple hundred of tabs open, until the day I decided to stop caring about it and let them all go. I almost never actually used old open tabs, just refused to close them, by fear of missing something. That’s in fact not true, I now close all of them at the end of the day and start fresh every morning. Anything I have to keep from one day to the other is written down in my daily notes, but it’s really a small amount. Or I just use the history, as you said.

People say it’s a bookmarking issue, I personally think it’s driven by fear of missing out, which isn’t really something solved by tools.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

#125

Post by jccalhoun »

I'm not a tons of tabs open person. I am a multiple browser person. Right now I am writing this in firefox on my main window with this tab and the tab for my custom homepage. I just opened Edge for work-related stuff. On my secondary monitor I have chrome with my more entertainment-based stuff: twitch (currently multitwitch with two streams), a tab for the video stream of the radio show I listen to in the morning, twitter, and facebook

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by HunOL »

_Microft wrote: post #46
cookiengineer wrote: post #16

Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…

Firefox allows to search your bookmarks by prepending * (an asterisk) to the input of the adress bar. They have also added a button for that a while ago. It's next to the search engine buttons at the bottom of the results panel. These buttons also show the shortcut symbols in their hover-text.

It's necessary to add that it's searching all bookmarks by title, URL and tags.

Another convinien search shortcut is ^ (for history) and % (for open tabs).

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by pjmlp »

nextaccountic wrote: post #103
pjmlp wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I see it as refusal to learn how to use bookmarks. I fail to see how what is so hard regarding organizing information in folders per subject, when in doubt choose the more generic one. Firefox also allows me to easily search for bookmarks, and has a quite nice bookmark manager. Using bookmarks since 1995 across different kinds of browsers, always migrating them along.

I want to search the contents (inside the html) of web pages in my bookmarks, and not just bookmark titles, urls or tags. Do you know a bookmark system that does that?

No, same applies to searching across tabs without browser plugins.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by Maxburn »

cookiengineer wrote: post #16

Isn't this tab fatigue of every user not more a hint that bookmarking is broken? I mean, no matter how I bookmark a website, omnibar is absolutely useless in every browser when it comes to re-discovering your bookmarks via keywords that you remember. Sometimes I bookmark the same URL multiple times, because the Browser is too stupid to realize that a #generated-hashbang or a ?utm_source is a generated tracking parame…

YES!!

I was a long time user of Xmarks for online bookmark syncing (cross platform and browser). I was sorely hurt when it was discontinued. I moved over to EverHelper.

These days I don't try to sync bookmarks to browsers, they inevitably get corrupted or lost somewhere shomehow. I just use the EverHelper website as my bookmark manager.

I'd love to find a open source thing I can host myself to fully own my bookmarks too so if anyone knows of that let me know.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by miguelrochefort »

The worst part about Safari for iPhone is that they limit the number of open tabs to 500 (it used to be much lower, around 10 on my iPad 2).

Whenever you open one more tab, Safari will dismiss the oldest tab. I've lost hundreds of tabs before noticing that behavior.

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