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40 Right Now, but last week it was 400+. Safari is the only browser that doesn't give a list of Tabs. Both Chrome and Firefox have it. Again, Multi ( I mean tens to hundreds or sometimes thousands ) Tab usage is still an unsolved problem.
What'll end up happening though, is that one day I'll leave that user profile for some reason and make another, which will go up to 200 and then I'll convince myself that I'll go back to my old profile after I close all the current tabs. Doesn't really happen. This is what happened to the ~2k tab profile that preceded my current profile. I still have that profile (started in 2017), don't know if it'll run with the current FF version though.
This is also why I don't use Chrome, because it's a glorified dev testing environment unto itself and not really a proper, usable browser.
Strategies for managing tabs:
- Firefox is my main browser, so I use Pocket to save sites for reading later. Tab is then immediately closed.
- Add on to save open sessions, nuke session from time to time and start over
Mobile: 4 (I have a lot on mobile because I keep some to read later, even though they should be bookmarks at some point).
Additional notes:
emails currently in inbox: 0
Mental sanity: excellent
- desktop not sure, too many folders with various reads to count
Hacker news, this post, rpilocator, (it's Wednesday, Adafruit might get some in), and You Tube.
After I submit, I'll read some comments, close this tab, close the Hacker News tab, and watch a video.
About 4500. Not kidding. Most of it is residue from "I'll read it later" or "I haven't properly understood it" sessions that inevitably crash. I run about ~50-100 (active) tabs at any given time, and the rest are "unloaded". And I don't want to get rid of them because they're a "sequence" of how I came to something (even though I document important stuff). What'll end up happening though, is that one day I'll leave t…
About 4500. Not kidding. Most of it is residue from "I'll read it later" or "I haven't properly understood it" sessions that inevitably crash. I run about ~50-100 (active) tabs at any given time, and the rest are "unloaded". And I don't want to get rid of them because they're a "sequence" of how I came to something (even though I document important stuff). What'll end up happening though, is that one day I'll leave t…
Honestly, this system sounds dysfunctional and unproductive. I know HN rules discourage psychological analysis, so I'll stick with some useful generalities - Avoidance and procrastination generate anxiety. Anxiety has a way of distorting reality by magnifying the worst outcome (often even the improbable). And thus it creates a dysfunctional behaviour-emotion loop that feeds itself. To break out of it you have to face…
I don't have any anxiety / ADHD / any other "disorder". In fact I'm far more organized than most people. Information doesn't just "outdate" itself in a mere five years.
Also, for firefox you don't need to make bookmarks of everything -- it muddies the search suggestions. `places.sqlite` and the sessionstore are the only two files that need to be backed up, and can be accessed trivially. None of this is possible in Chrome (AFAIK).