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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.
Lol, I have 15000+ tabs across 13 windows.
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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.
I have 298 tabs across 8 windows open right now and I can already tell firefox is about to crash at any moment. I go to about:memory and mash the buttons in the "free memory" box to buy some extra time, but eventually firefox goes down in flames and I lose all my open tabs. When it does finally crash Firefox can never restore my tabs, but I blame myself/my settings for that.
When things get to this point where I know firefox will die soon I end up bookmarking them all or even copying each URL into a text document with dreams that I'll go back to them after my browser has been closed and re-opened, but I almost never manage it. At least I have the option I guess and I know that if I ever do I'll find things that are of interest to me. There's just no shortage of other things that are of interest to me online so the newest stuff tends to win out.
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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.
My bookmark list is huge and basically acts as (part of) a knowledge base. Conversely, open tabs are something of a hybrid between a "read this later" and to-do list.
I'm sure there are many other styles of organizing tasks/knowledge, and I would be a bit careful about discrediting what apparently works for other people.
There's borderline cases of working against UI paradigms like using the trash as a folder to store important documents, but I'd argue that this one isn't one of them.
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.
Maybe add to reading list, close the tab and let it sit in there
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.
Open-new-tab is faster than finding your old tab (… is there one still open?) for enough things that they stack up fast. Add a dose of “I’ll come back to this after the current distraction…” (you don’t) and “I’m not sure the current distraction is actually over, better leave those open” and it quickly becomes a self-reinforcing problem. Eventually you just mass-bookmark all few hundred of ‘em and close them all (that…
“average person has 7400 tabs” factoid actually just statistical error. average person uses bookmarks. Tabs Hazel is an outlier and should not have been counted
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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. :)
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Open-new-tab is faster than finding your old tab (… is there one still open?) for enough things that they stack up fast. Add a dose of “I’ll come back to this after the current distraction…” (you don’t) and “I’m not sure the current distraction is actually over, better leave those open” and it quickly becomes a self-reinforcing problem. Eventually you just mass-bookmark all few hundred of ‘em and close them all (that…
If you regularly do the 'bookmark them all in a folder and close them' behavior, you should try Simple Tab Groups.
Bookmark-all-and-close works pretty well since I’ve literally never gone back and looked at the bookmarks in the 15ish years I’ve been using the approach. Groups would solve a different problem (task-specific tabs get mixed together) but add enough friction that I simply don’t use them.