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Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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Re: Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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It's a mix of hating Delicious and Bookmarking not fitting with how I get things done. I feel like if I want to read something later I have to leave it open or I never will. When I bookmark or instapaper anything I never get back to reading it.

Re: Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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post #3

This problem is already solved. Consider http://readitlaterlist.com/ or https://www.instapaper.com/

It's not only a problem for reading, a lot of my tabs are not articles. Some are but some are useful projects, startups or things I may need which I want to look at later, but have no way to save at the moment.

Re: Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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post #2

It's a mix of hating Delicious and Bookmarking not fitting with how I get things done. I feel like if I want to read something later I have to leave it open or I never will. When I bookmark or instapaper anything I never get back to reading it.

I just found some decent Delicious Desktop apps, seems like this will help as it's much more integrated with my workflow (should be) but still not perfect.

Re: Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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post #4
post #3

This problem is already solved. Consider http://readitlaterlist.com/ or https://www.instapaper.com/

It's not only a problem for reading, a lot of my tabs are not articles. Some are but some are useful projects, startups or things I may need which I want to look at later, but have no way to save at the moment.

The worst part is when Firefox gets to 500mb+ and I want to restart it to free up some memory. I used to save all the open URLs in a notepad file then reopen them, but lately I've just been killing the process then letting FF recover them itself... this is probably bad practice.

Re: Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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post #6
post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not only a problem for reading, a lot of my tabs are not articles. Some are but some are useful projects, startups or things I may need which I want to look at later, but have no way to save at the moment.

The worst part is when Firefox gets to 500mb+ and I want to restart it to free up some memory. I used to save all the open URLs in a notepad file then reopen them, but lately I've just been killing the process then letting FF recover them itself... this is probably bad practice.

Yes, i've got a Macbook Pro. Which i'd say is pretty fast. Having all these URLs makes chrome slow down until when typing I have to wait for it to catch up.

Re: Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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On my desktop, 289, spread around 15 windows (Chrome takes up about 3GB of RAM) On my laptop, 120, spread around 3 windows (Chrome takes up about 1.5GB of RAM, (Mac OS X)performance gets really bad after 10 hours of running, and I usually restart Chrome a couple of times during the day because of this)

I use instapaper to "save and remove" articles from my tabs, so none of these are articles.

It's a real problem. I have regular "cleaning" sessions where I check every tab and determine its faith. But, much like trying to get inbox zero, this almost never completely works and soon it's ballooning again.

Re: Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

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post #9

On my desktop, 289, spread around 15 windows (Chrome takes up about 3GB of RAM) On my laptop, 120, spread around 3 windows (Chrome takes up about 1.5GB of RAM, (Mac OS X)performance gets really bad after 10 hours of running, and I usually restart Chrome a couple of times during the day because of this) I use instapaper to "save and remove" articles from my tabs, so none of these are articles. It's a real problem. I h…

I feel the same, this morning I had like 60 within a few windows and already made my Macbook Pro become very slow. Especially because a few have flash video loaded or flash and HTML5 elements.
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