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Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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Firefox: address bar is 2px too high? Garbage. Chrome: eavesdrops on everything? This is fine.

User priorities are what’s really broken.

What's so bad about firefox? I think it should be fine for 99% of the population.

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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I currently have 8260 tabs open across 9 windows, and that's just on my main laptop, across all devices I probably have over 20k tabs, and I don't really have any issues regarding tab management. I used to have issues with Firefox randomly nuking my state on load and having to restore backups, but now I use Tab Session Manager for that and never think twice about it.

Is there some specific reason why you are doing this? What possible benefit could this have beyond some weird bragging rights?

Because it works for me. Every now and then I tend to it and cut a couple hundred or thousand tabs I no longer need.

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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Is there some specific reason why you are doing this? What possible benefit could this have beyond some weird bragging rights?

Because it works for me. Every now and then I tend to it and cut a couple hundred or thousand tabs I no longer need.

You seem here and in another comment to be kind evasive around the spirit of the question…which I think is more “how does this work for you?”

You choose to do it so I assume it works for you. What benefit does this give you over the more traditional bookmarking, etc?

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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Is there some specific reason why you are doing this? What possible benefit could this have beyond some weird bragging rights?

Because it works for me. Every now and then I tend to it and cut a couple hundred or thousand tabs I no longer need.

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Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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Because it works for me. Every now and then I tend to it and cut a couple hundred or thousand tabs I no longer need.

You seem here and in another comment to be kind evasive around the spirit of the question…which I think is more “how does this work for you?” You choose to do it so I assume it works for you. What benefit does this give you over the more traditional bookmarking, etc?

I don't meant to sound evasive, and your clarified question here is easier to understand and answer appropriately.

The benefit is that I went from thousands of bookmarks, which were difficult and time-consuming to organize and navigate, to contextual pages each filling specific roles and containing ephemeral links to what I need. It works very well for my ADHD and allows me to basically have a messy desk across several domains and contexts, while still having file cabinets for things I do want organized and stashed away.

This has let me vastly simplify my bookmarks, which I typically arrange as unlabeled favicons ordered by color on my bookmarks toolbar, with some others stashed away in a folder.

I keep what I really need, and I'm always ready to drop things I don't need, and it helps me keep a better long-term working memory of ongoing tasks, interests and hobbies.

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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This is clearly a PR stunt. Perplexity knows Google would not sell Chrome, it is the holy grail of their ads strategy and would cripple their moat.

No core AI model, Its a wrapper, And valuation at $18 billion is just fabricated fake PR, After deep seek and other free Core AI models based AI tools it has no future and its CEO knows that is why he is just focusing on public stunts & then raising as much as he can and withdraw by packing massive paychecks to himself.

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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You seem here and in another comment to be kind evasive around the spirit of the question…which I think is more “how does this work for you?” You choose to do it so I assume it works for you. What benefit does this give you over the more traditional bookmarking, etc?

I don't meant to sound evasive, and your clarified question here is easier to understand and answer appropriately. The benefit is that I went from thousands of bookmarks, which were difficult and time-consuming to organize and navigate, to contextual pages each filling specific roles and containing ephemeral links to what I need. It works very well for my ADHD and allows me to basically have a messy desk across sever…

Thanks for the info—it’s interesting. I am glad you have a working system for you. At face value it would be difficult for me. I am probably the exact opposite—-I rarely go beyond two browser instances and if I get beyond 4-5 tabs in them, I’m closing something. However, it’s not just browser tabs, I am kind of a orderly minimalist freak about all things.

Re: Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5B

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User priorities are what’s really broken.

What's so bad about firefox? I think it should be fine for 99% of the population.

Maybe you misunderstood me. I was trying to say users should prioritize more important things instead of trivialities. I am a long-time Firefox user and almost never have I had any issue with it.
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