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Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by mr_mitm » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:28 PM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #18

adam_arthur wrote: post #17

Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?

Isn't that a good use case for the bookmark function?

To answer the actual question: I don't. Either I read it immediately or will never get back to it. There is always enough fresh content. I don't need another backlog.

And let's be honest, if you have a backlog of 7400 pages, neither do you.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by iamthirsty » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #18

adam_arthur wrote: post #17

Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?

Bookmarks. Reading lists. Notes.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by agumonkey » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

Wow, I never crossed the 2000 line, 7400 is quite a feat. Also Firefox doesn't suffer visibly until 800~ on my old laptop, and it starts to show above 1500. Thanks for supporting hoarders like us.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by neglesaks » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #11

ranger_danger wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My 100+ tabs consuming 12GB of RAM says otherwise...

I upgraded from 16gb to 32gb of RAM expressly because of firefox.

And the saying used to be that Chrome was the chief RAM gobbler of most users' PCs. :)

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by ortusdux » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

I like Session Buddy for Chrome. It saves all of your tabs & windows as dated collections. You can also manually save and label sets. When researching, I will often have 100+ tabs open sorted into different windows, and it's nice to be able to save the session for later.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/session-buddy/edacc...

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by adam_arthur » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:29 PM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #18

adam_arthur wrote: post #17

Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?

I go to the same set of pages all the time, and the browser has it in the search history. So usually only have to type a few characters to navigate to it.

Do people often seek out obscure pages without entering from a more common context?

e.g. hackernews to any article link

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by jerlam » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:30 PM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #18

adam_arthur wrote: post #17

Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?

Saving 100s of tabs isn't going to work either, unless you can remember the name of the window and then tediously look through the list of open tabs. In that case, just search through your history instead of having the tabs.

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by b112 » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:30 PM UTC

lxgr wrote: post #18

adam_arthur wrote: post #17

Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

How do you remember which pages you still need to/want to get back to?

I agree. Me, I'm into furry porn, but where they're shaved so you can't tell they're furries.

That's really hard to Google, so I keep those tabs open!

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by gpvos » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:31 PM UTC

I've had 7000 tabs open as well (currently 3700, I backup the session file and start again every half year or so). What I think would be handy would be if tabs would be auto-grouped by domain name, and that I could define domain groups (like work, newspapers, computing sites, youtube, etc.).

Re: Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400 Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years

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Post by gpvos » Fri, May 03, 2024, 7:32 PM UTC

adam_arthur wrote: post #17

Why do people open 100s of tabs when you can easily get back to that page in less than a second in most cases? Seems the clutter and organizational requirement is more of a productivity loss than gain. Never understood this.

They just stay open. Going back and deciding which ones to close is a hassle.