I closed a lot of browser tabs • Hacker News Board

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by shalmanese » Mon, Aug 16, 2021, 3:10 AM UTC

theshrike79 wrote: post #57

This is a type of FOMO. You start collecting Absolutely Essential Reading in tabs, stuff that you'll for sure read later, no joke, seriously. You never will. But you can't close the tab or you can't find the content again and bookmarking is mostly useless if you use multiple computers and browsers daily. I got over my tab-itis with Pinboard[0]. If stuff seems to sit in my tabs for too long, I can send the link easily…

Chiming in to say this was one of my checks notes currently 508 tabs that I saved to read later which I did eventually come back to read and engage in so tab hoarding isn't entirely always fruitless.

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by agent327 » Wed, Aug 18, 2021, 5:56 PM UTC

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.

Hi! If you ever see this, you can vote on the idea here: https://mozilla.crowdicity.com/post/728459

Thanks :-)

Re: I closed a lot of browser tabs

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Post by jkmcf » Fri, Aug 20, 2021, 4:50 PM UTC

miguelrochefort wrote: post #133

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…

The solution is trivial: Show related bookmarks at the top of Google Search results. It blows my mind that neither Google nor Pocket implemented this feature (natively and/or as a browser extension).

IIRC Readability used to do this. It was my favorite feature, and I've pinged Pocket and others about this.