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[–] [email protected] 55 points 11 months ago (4 children)

Zero. I think I’m the odd one out here. I have a habit of closing all tabs once I’m done, always have.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I dig it, start fresh each time.

[–] wheeldawg 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Exactly. I cannot comprehend people with dozens of windows with thousands of them. How do you find literally anything at that point?

I usually close all, sometimes if I start a long video I'll keep it open and paused until I come back to watch more of it. But that's just one, and just because that site won't remember where I left off, and I don't want to memorize what the timestamp is. I will have to refresh the page to get it to resume loading the video, but I can remember the timestamp for the 2 seconds it takes to reload and click back to it. But I'll forget if I have to come back hours later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

On linux, with kde, there is usually a browser extension preinstalled called plasma integration.

It makes it so that when you search from the KDE equivalent of window's start menu, you can also search open browser tabs or history.

I close all tabs once I'm done, but when trying to solve a programming/devops related problem, having lots of tabs open lets me see more than one approach to a problem, along with opinions, side by side.

And research in general requires a lot of tabs, in my experience.

[–] wheeldawg 1 points 7 months ago

That's kinda nifty. I had no idea that was there.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you find literally anything at that point?

I got so used to the Safari tab system that I decided to replicate it in Firefox (recently switched).

For me Three Styles Tabs and Simple Tabs Groups have helped me enormously to keep track of all of my tabs, additionally, I think you can search your tabs within the search section.

As almost all crap I have, I keep categories/groups of it:

Random searches

NAS related stuff

Mac related stuff etc.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The part I can't figure out is why?

Bookmarks/favorites are designed specifically for managing large collections of more or less frequently accessed sites. They have descriptions, tags, folder structures, etc all built in and requiring a few kb of disk space each instead of 100MB of RAM. I'm wracking my brain for a reason why deliberately keeping hundreds or thousands of tabs loaded could possibly be more effective at managing a collection of resources. I got nothing though...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Well, using the aforementioned add-ons is way faster IMHO.

Have you ever given a look at Vivaldi browser? That is power user tab management indeed.

I only use bookmarks to, well bookmark links that I really like a lot, not anything related to "ongoing projects".

On top of that, browsers can offload the tabs thus making the ram usage minimal, but yeah that would only be useful if you have a ton of stuff opened.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Judging by a lot of the replies and other discussions I’ve seen, no it’s not the norm.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

So how did you type this comment?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I’m using an iPhone app. Nothing to do with a web browser or tabs.