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pugsnroses77, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

my firefox app gave up counting and just shows an infinity symbol :(

Swarfega,

That’s all I ever see on my wife’s phone in Chrome. Just a smiley face. Personally it bugs the shit out of me. I close any unwanted tabs.

kratoz29,
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phone in Chrome

I was so confused when I saw that face in my parents phones, I thought it was some kind of easter egg, well, maybe it actually is.

androidul,

hey I saw that as well on my wife’s chrome on phone, it’s really scary

Vilian,

chrome don’t have a way to automaticly close tabs like firefox?

Swarfega,

Not that I know of

ctag,
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That’s… kinda scary. How much RAM do you have?

DarkThoughts,

Doesn't matter that much if they're unloaded.

TonyTonyChopper,
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take notes Chrome

kratoz29,
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Chrome in Android behaves very similar to Firefox, perhaps a bit more aggressive due to being a system app.

Firefox in macOS keeps all my tabs open, and that is a huge perk for me, Safari would just randomly unload them because of high resource usage crap, like dude, I have 16 GBs or RAM, let me hoard enjoy it.

GadgetGirlOz, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

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

penquin,

So that’s not the norm?

GadgetGirlOz,

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

ctag,
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I dig it, start fresh each time.

Honytawk,

So how did you type this comment?

GadgetGirlOz,

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

wheeldawg,

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.

kratoz29,
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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.

dmention7,

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…

kratoz29,
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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.

moonpiedumplings, (edited )

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.

3TH4Li4, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

Usually one, maximum 10.

ctag,
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I admire your self control!

3TH4Li4,

Look, it’s not self control. Too many tabs just scare me.

ctag,
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I’m scared of them too, it’s just too late for me haha.

regbin_,

Just close them. Can always do another search when you really need it. It’ll sit in your history anyway.

ctag,
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I’ve never found searching browsing history to be very reliable. I guess it’s just a preference.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA, (edited )
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I use multiple profiles. Got both personal and work ones for both me and the wife, close the windows when they’re not active, and they are set to keep track of the tabs. But keeping them open? Hell no. And I’m retired now. It’s been six months since I’ve used the work profile.

If you want to do profiles (in Firefox), add -p to the shortcut’s target line, at least in windows. I think. It’s been a while since I set it up. It’s -p somewhere

Towerofpain11,

I’m the same. Too many tabs confuses me and I start clicking around forgetting what I was doing. Keep it to a minimum.

puppy, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

Right now? 2. Generally? under 10.

ctag,
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I envy that, it certainly sounds like the proper amount.

ZeroCool, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

Six.

ctag,
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That’s a good number!

Hubi, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

This one. I used to have a bunch of tabs pinned but having to restore them frequently just became a hassle, so I added them to my bookmarks.

otter,

When I start up, I right click on a folder and “open all in new tabs”

Then shift click to pin them again. Makes it easier to restart when I need to

Prandom_returns,

I think you can middle-click the folder.

ctag,
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I need to do that. I hate when pinned tabs crash or get messed up.

OutlierBlue, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

24, including the one I opened for this thread.

ctag,
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24 is a respectable number. Not too cluttered but still getting things done. Do you keep them on a single window?

OutlierBlue,

Yes, all in one window.

… although you just reminded me I have another tab open in a separate window, and 4 more open in a private window. I’ll close those windows once I stop working on them though.

SHamblingSHapes, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?

Zero. I don’t have a browser open, just a phone app.

ctag,
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I’m still counting that as one. What app do you use and how do you like it?

SHamblingSHapes,

Boost. I used Boost for Reddit, so this app for Lemmy feels very familiar.

I like how few taps it takes to switch accounts. I like how I can set my default feed and sort and it sticks where some other lemmy apps I tried frequently reset to a trending feed, gross.

I like the feature that allows me to apply a custom tag to users that only I can see. I use it to keep an eye on potential trolls. If I have a person tagged as “MAGA troll”, I know not to engage with them but to grab the popcorn and enjoy the ride.

ctag,
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Thanks!

kindenough, to asklemmy in How many tabs do you have open?
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One

NotSpez, to comicstrips in Cat & Girl in "One Man's 90s Trash"

I still hate Friends

Omega_Haxors, to memes in Shenanigans are afoot

spoilerIt’s the dog

TeddE, to memes in my sweater
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For a fraction of a second, my poor heart skipped a beat, hoping Pushing Daisies had some new news. 😅

Iron_Lynx, to memes in Shenanigans are afoot

FROM: any cat:

To whomever keeps taking the content of my pissed-in litter box,

That’s just taking the piss.

Peppycito, to comicstrips in Cat & Girl in "One Man's 90s Trash"

She says she wishes she was alive in the 60’s, well I got news for you sister, there was a lot of shit going on in the 60’s and you probably would have got your little hippy ass killed or something you goddamn shit face.

Any Ween fans in here?

HonoraryMancunian, to memes in my sweater

This guy was one half of a duo that holds a very special place in 12-year-old-me’s heart

lars,

Spill the tea

HonoraryMancunian,
lars,

Whoa — you’re about 8472729737382 times cooler than me. I didn’t even know such a show existed.

HonoraryMancunian,

Being pre-internet and shown on terrestrial TV with its plethora of (random, funny, weird) softcore porn, it was a very coming-of-age show for a lot of us now in our 30s and 40s

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