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Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by bodge5000 »

wintermutestwin wrote: post #214
bodge5000 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The solution for me is to use the great suspender (pre kerfuffle version) which makes tabs act kind of like temporary bookmarks, but you're right in that something better is needed. I guess the problem is that a lot of people, myself included, use tabs as a kind of todo list of things to look at (whether thats effective or not is another point), whereas bookmarks hide themselves out of sight and out of mind

>pre kerfuffle version What does that mean? I am using Total Suspender

The Great Suspender was sold to an unknown party which made some less than trustworthy changes, forcing google to eventually take it down for containing malware.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by thefr0g »

mrweasel wrote: post #99
thefr0g wrote: post #70

I don't get why people litter their browser with tabs. I pretty sure I never used more than 30 at the same time. I just close them if I don't need them anymore. At the latest when I can't read the titles anymore the garbage collection runs. If I might still need it I just bookmark the page. (It helps to sort your bookmarks and have proper syncing)

I normally just exit the browser if I reach 20 tabs. Mentally I can’t/won’t deal with it and just declare tab bankrupcy and exists everything. Browsers like Safari have excellent time based history, should I need a page within the next few days. On problem with this method is that is has made me hate webapps, including PWAs, as it they incompatible with the browser being closed down a few times a day.

> On problem with this method is that is has made me hate webapps, including PWAs

Javascript is the new Flash...

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by ttctciyf »

tomsmeding wrote: post #132
ttctciyf wrote: post #73

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> I don't remember URLs with /some/post/id/123.html. I remember headlines When I open a new window[1] in Firefox and start typing in the address bar, I get matches based on the page title not just on the url. For example, I open a new window and type "brow" and the matches I get include "I closed a lot of brow ser tabs | Hacker News" (see image[2].) So I rarely if ever use bookmarks, I can almost always find what I'm…

> I use customise to put the "open new window" icon onto my buttons, next to the address bar. Note that ctrl-shift-N opens a new window.

> ctrl-shift-N opens a new window

As does ctrl-n, which I mentioned in the comment you're replying to ;-D

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by unicornporn »

DrSiemer wrote: post #233
unicornporn wrote: post #81

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» It's still not as good as Firefox's nested Tree Style Tab once was (and might be again?) but I'm kind of locked into Chrome at this point. What terrible being is locking people into Chrome?

If it's where your passwords and addons live, switching takes effort. Besides, what is the big advantage of Firefox? Chrome has 65% of the worldwide market share. Firefox does not even have 4 [1]. About half of the stuff I build will literally only ever run in Chrome anyway. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

OK, you're one of those noble devs working hard to further entrench the Blink/WebKit monopoly situation. I'm sure its practical right now, but try not to be too short sighted. Sorry for the bitterness, but this infuriates me.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by kasabali »

miguelrochefort wrote: post #130

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.

500 is generous. Samsung's "Internet" browser has 50 tabs limit with the same behavior. However unlike Safari, it warns you that you've hit the limit after it had gone ahead and closed the oldest tab.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by piceas »

rsync wrote: post #165

Why can't we just have: about:tabs ... which would be a plain text listing of all the URLs of all the tabs you have open ? You could just copy and paste it to a file or whatever. No fancy bookmarking scheme needed. Instead, we need to dig several directories deep into /Library (or whatever, depending on your OS) and then use JSON tools to export ... I've already lost most people. Go search for "how can I export tabs"…

Share to Dropbox effectively has this behaviour and works pretty well for me from mobile. I only access a fraction of the links but it's fast easy and not reliant on browsers or plugins.

I'm occasionally tempted to modify Syncthing to have the same behaviour.

On desktop I mostly don't bookmark. The site is saved to pdf/screenshot png of the relevant content.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by gxqoz »

cxr wrote: post #231
gxqoz wrote: post #183

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I use Pocket a lot. There are like 10 easy feature requests I'd love for them to do but I find it at least usable for storing stuff and finding it later once you get used to it. Most of the problems in that post have been at least partly addressed, although I don't ever use tags so have no comments about those.

> There are like 10 easy feature requests I'd love for them to do Consider that if Mozilla hadn't lied about how it was going to open source it when they announced they were buying Pocket (alternatively, if people actually held them accountable instead of demonstrating that the public's short memory means that you can lie about pretty much anything), then someone would have probably fixed at least a few of those. If…

One of my main use cases of Pocket is basically using it like a podcast app (via text2speech and syncing across different devices) with highlighting capability. I've created some of my own workarounds for its failings (such as not being able to save articles behind some paywalled websites).

I'd ideally like to move to something else but I haven't found an alternative that's as good. Not being able to export my data, do any kind of advanced searching, or access a few of my files in Pocket really does suck.

I see Zotero has a third-party Android app, maybe I'll try that and see if it is decent.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by DrSiemer »

unicornporn wrote: post #254
DrSiemer wrote: post #233

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's where your passwords and addons live, switching takes effort. Besides, what is the big advantage of Firefox? Chrome has 65% of the worldwide market share. Firefox does not even have 4 [1]. About half of the stuff I build will literally only ever run in Chrome anyway. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share

OK, you're one of those noble devs working hard to further entrench the Blink/WebKit monopoly situation. I'm sure its practical right now, but try not to be too short sighted. Sorry for the bitterness, but this infuriates me.

Note: the Chrome-only stuff I mentioned runs in a sandbox environment and will not make any difference to the global market. Public projects will work just fine in FF.

But of all the things I am actively fighting for, like decreasing the emission of greenhouse gases, preserving nature and the furthering of various struggling causes that will truly make a difference, I just can't be bothered to take on this fight as well.

Good for you that you can afford to be furious about something like browser market share. For me that's nowhere near the top of my list. Maybe it will move up some day, but at this time I don't feel the need to raise a banner for it.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by Tagbert »

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…

I just open the bookmark sidebar cmd-B

Then I use the search box at the top.

The bookmark appears.

Close the sidebar cmd-B

(Why does the HN text editor ignore single new lines?)

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by beagle3 »

tigerlily wrote: post #72
agent327 wrote: post #64

Here's something I'd love to have. Let's you are reading hacker news. Clicking a link gives you two options: open in a new tab, or open, replacing the current tab. Opening in a new tab works, but leaves you with a lot of tabs open that are cognitively hard to deal with ("why did I think this would be interesting?"). Replacing the current tab removes the context. When you return to the front page, it may have changed,…

So like a left and right pane? That would be extremely useful, especially for search engine results, you could click on results in the left pane and quickly view them in succession in the right side pane.

Iirc polar (getpolarized.io, I think) does that.

I was going to test it, but their v2 dropped local storage in favor of cloud only, so I lost interest.

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