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Re: 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

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Post by melagonster »

deprecative wrote: post #19
TillE wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For me at least, it's basically a substitute for a good bookmarking system. I want to get back to that tab eventually, but if I just bookmark it, it'll get lost in the churn and forgotten forever. I hope some day there will be a holy grail of bookmarking software which somehow solves this, but I don't even know what that would look like. If I'm working on a specific project and find a great resource, I'll definitely…

I dunno dude, if you want to save the tab but it gets forgotten if you save it then it probably wasn't all that important. I'd argue that most folks that save tabs or thrive on tab bloat are doing themselves a major disservice and are overly invested in passing fancies rather than meaningful consumption they purport.

sometimes I open 5 different documents for reading, and I still searching another help on stack overflow. It is easy to reach 10 Tabs on my browser:(

Re: 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

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Post by melagonster »

ratg13 wrote: post #16
piceas wrote: post #13

My tabs are a convenientish curated list. It is wasteful and I hate it. At worst (best?) I've taken to sending a tab to another device as a way of dismissing it for later. I hope someone jumps on the language model hype and makes an extension that summarizes what I have read, seen, and done on the web. Perhaps with a choice screenshot or two. I don't need a tree of pages, a spreadsheet, or a pie chart of time wasted…

OneTab and Pocket seem like they might be a good fit for you.

I am using OneTab, it is good for let my yesterday workspace go back.

Re: 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

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Post by deprecative »

melagonster wrote: post #21
deprecative wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I dunno dude, if you want to save the tab but it gets forgotten if you save it then it probably wasn't all that important. I'd argue that most folks that save tabs or thrive on tab bloat are doing themselves a major disservice and are overly invested in passing fancies rather than meaningful consumption they purport.

sometimes I open 5 different documents for reading, and I still searching another help on stack overflow. It is easy to reach 10 Tabs on my browser:(

Well, that's easy. You can't read 5 documents at once. Chat-GPT summarize four of them and read one. Easy.

Half joke aside, I think it's easy to get to 4-5 tabs depending on what you do but I don't understand tabs so small the favicon barely fits. That just seems like you've got psychological hoarding issues. You being general and not you-you strictly speaking.

Re: 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

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Post by asadotzler »

Our telemetry says 98% of Firefox users have fewer than 20 tabs open. And that's Beta data so heavily skewed to more sophisticated users. I wouldn't be surprised if it was closer to 99% maxing out at under 20. 95% have fewer than 10 tabs open. 75% have 3 or fewer.

Re: 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

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Post by aldanor »

wvenable wrote: post #2

20? I'm up an average of 200. For those wondering how that is manageable I use Firefox with multirow tabs. And how it gets so high is that I always open links in new tabs in the background when doing any research.

200? I'm an average of 1-2k with TST on Firefox...

Re: 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

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Post by shapefrog »

wvenable wrote: post #2

20? I'm up an average of 200. For those wondering how that is manageable I use Firefox with multirow tabs. And how it gets so high is that I always open links in new tabs in the background when doing any research.

200? You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.

Re: 45% of people have 20 browser tabs open at a time

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Post by asksomeoneelse »

aldanor wrote: post #27
wvenable wrote: post #2

20? I'm up an average of 200. For those wondering how that is manageable I use Firefox with multirow tabs. And how it gets so high is that I always open links in new tabs in the background when doing any research.

200? I'm an average of 1-2k with TST on Firefox...

2K ? I learned the hard way that Firefox has a limit of 8000 tabs per window when reloading a previous session. Wrote a small app to split the tabs to save my decade-old session. The day I close a tab without having read it hasn't come yet !
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