Meanwhile, my dad has had the same tabs open for years and multiple computers at this point.
I’m always surprised people hoard tabs. The explanation is always some crazy shit and they’re basically bookmarks to some
I view bookmarks as being for sites that I intend to visit regularly enough to warrant making a handy link. A tab is for a place I plan to visit once, probably soon, but not right now, so I want to remember it, but not to the point where I’ll make a dedicated bookmark link to it. Usually it’s a video I want to watch at some point when I have more time, or a recipe I think I’ll try making in a few days. The issue is when I don’t get the motivation to do what I kept the tab open to do, so I start getting a backlog of tabs that I simultaneously don’t want to lose because I kept them open for a reason, but I don’t want to visit because there are too many of them to parse through.
I just use bookmarks for that. If it isn’t worth bookmarking I’m just not gonna bother. I’ll find it in the history if I want to for whatever reason (almost never happens)
if i bookmark something i might as well have deleted it (my object permanence is bad). when it’s a tab i can at least see it there at all times
There’s the bookmarks bar. I use it mostly for most used stuff but if you have space there you could just save stuff there. It is visible but not as a tab
But if tabs work for you, no reason to change that tbh
I use my bookmark bar for nostolgia. All those sites from middle/high school that I am never clicking again and likely don’t exist anymore. But seeing the names of the sites bring me joy at times.
Look into extensions like “read it later” or the like if your browser doesn’t support it out of the box. It is a list of things you need to read/view once and when done, it is removed from the list.
You may find handy the extension “onetab”
Nah, the tabs have to be in the way. The inconvenience of having a lot of tabs is the point. If i can just export a list or turn them into bookmarks and forget about them, I will. It’s like the 10 different alarms that I have on my phone that go off every week on the off chance that this time I’ll actually be motivated to do what they’re reminding me to do. I always get around to it eventually, it just takes time.
Yeah it kind of makes me irrationally angry when people try to defend it lol
If I bookmark it I will forget about it and never visit it again.
And you would remember to visit them again when they are in your 800 tabs?
Could put it in the bookmarks toolbar I guess. But sounds like many people hoard the toolbars because they want to visit the sites but never actually do
Laughs nervously
How? Why?
I can delete them any time. I am not addicted. I definitely need them again at some point
it opens another level of “why” when you realize according to those stats, they have 5 other windows that have a cumulative 474 tabs. the 863 is just that window
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Bro, every one of those websites has now seen everything you’ve done online with the cookies. I think. I have firefox set up to clear on exit, and do so multiple times a day if using it a lot. Obviously after porn, but other stuff too.
Do it
I will open 15 tabs, forget why, and just close my browser. I keep history off. Writing a commemt? Doesn’t matter. Email? There’s probably a draft. Half finished video? The algorithm will guide it back to me if it was meant to be.
I dream about one day achieving this vibe. But what if I need it later???
Redo it. Don’t overwhlem yourself with managaing everything all at once. If needed, plan your actions, but leaving your life in a constant state of chaos is really only a distraction. When you do come back, you had enough incentive to return. It’ll help motivate you to finish stuff.
Set them free. If they come back it’s meant to be.
Funnily enough, on firefox on my PC I have an entire extension called “no tabs” which does exactly what it says and disables tabs. On my phone just never open any tho :3
Disables tabs? Like you have to close one site to look at another? I am envious that you can make that work.
Well, if any site attempts to open a new tab, it’ll just automatically pull it to a new browser window instead :3. Otherwise in general I would have to close the site im looking at if I wanted to open something else in the same window, rather than launching a new one
Tabs are a new thing. They have not existed as long as browsers have.
Maybe it’s just me but I’ve never had a problem with building up too many tabs. Like I can’t stand having more than like four.
Bookmarks, however, I have a lot of bookmarks.
Insanity. Those are all things I want to look at later.
I have firefox setup to close pins on my mobile after a week of not being accessed. if I haven’t touched them in a week I don’t need them.
My PC browser doesn’t remember last session anyway so I’ve never had to worry.
If the tabs truly love you, they will come back.
They don’t, the tabs are using you, they will leave you after you don’t serve them any longer. Whores.
I do not understand people who have dozens of tabs open at once. i have three, maybe four at max. Most the time i have only two. what is even the point of having a dozen or more tavs open, you aren’t using them all, are you?
Backlogs, unloaded tab are functionally not that different from bookmarks so opening and leaving an effective and universal “watch later” function. I usually keep a dozen or two sorted from least to most interesting. Communications - I usually have email, discord, calendar, work email, slack, jira open and pinned at all times. Plus a few (container) tabs where I’m signed under different roles in a system that Im working on so that i dont have to relog all the time. Wikipedia rabbitholes on something like theoretical physics, research projects and shopping for something highly specific like car parts or niche hobby products can easily explode into 50-100 tabs where it’s easier to have a ton of tabs for cross referencing rather than going back and forth every time.
But that’s just my flow, others might have different needs and solutions
Well, I used to think like you too, having only active tabs I needed and bookmarking important stuff.
But now I have tabs, which are important, but not as important to bookmark them permanently. So I persist tabs across sessions now, because else my bookmarks are way too cluttered for my tastes.
I’ve honestly started doing that at least once a week and it really feels good for my mind to let that go. I can find whatever site it was later on when I actually need it again
Have you heard of bookmarks? There’s even a bookmark bar that is right up there near the tabs. You can even edit the bookmark and delete the name so it’s just a tiny icon on the bookmarks bar.
But I don’t like bookmarks, they’re way more work. Sure, if I’m trying to get the best performance possible, I’ll close my browser (all tabs will reopen when I start the browser again), but I mostly need a fuckload of tabs and a word processor, so it doesn’t normally impact my usage to have a bunch of tabs open.
I just find it really laborious to organize bookmarks properly when you get into the hundreds, and it’s more work to delete and easier to forget which in practice just means I still have decades old bookmarks I’m not interested in anymore. Tabs at least are in the way so I can remember to close them. I do use a few extensions to make it all a little easier to manage when I do deep dives into something and “need” ~50 new tabs for a little while.
blasphemy burn the witch cease your lies
People who have a hard time wrangling tabs will just have the same problem with bookmarks.
It’s not the same problem though because they’re not actively draining your memory.
Maybe browsers have made that less of a problem, but only because so many people were misusing tabs in the first place. So they had to make them more like bookmarks so it wasn’t strangling people’s PC
Yes, but the OP in this thread is talking more about the mental and organizational aspect of tab/bookmarking, not RAM. Someone who isn’t great at managing tabs will also have a hard time managing bookmarks.
Sending this to my wife. She flips her shit when she loses her tab prison.
Tabs are ephemeral
I don’t even save history
On Monday morning turn on the extension “tabs2text”
Export to markdown and paste into an Emacs org-file under a new date.
Close all tabs and turn off the extension.
Now you are clear to start another week without fear of losing a link and without the burden of any open tabs.
