runjun,

Seeing that many tabs gives me actual anxiety.

penquin,

How can anyone even track them? Like is there anyone out there with that many tabs open who actually knows which is which?

synae,
@synae@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

I don’t need to know which is which, they’re more or less sorted by recency. So I go through the most recent tabs and get the info I need or do the task associated, then close them, until I get back to the previous task or subject.

Sometimes I get interrupted with a new thing to look up or do, and more tabs get made and the cycle begins anew, regardless of how many already exist.

Some projects last days or weeks, and tabs related to them end up being longer-lived. If I get on one of those tabs and don’t want to work on the project right then, I’ll continue going back (leftwards) til I find something I can do or read in the time I have available. So I definitely have tabs that have been open for months but I do need to get to eventually.

Also, sometimes when I need to look at something I know I have (or had) open in a tab, I’ll just search for it (literally, i.e. Google) again in a new tab and handle it there. Then if I do come across the old tab, it gets closed quickly.

I’m “done” when I’m back at my inbox or calendar (first or 2nd tabs, pinned). This rarely happens and when it does I’m sure there is a something in my email or a new ticket in JIRA for me to start on…

So overall it’s not about knowing what’s in each tab, but having a system to navigate them that works for you.

ctag,
@ctag@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Me too :( Since about 2017 I’ve been telling myself I’ll get around to cleaning them.

Hubi,

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,
@ctag@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

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

Tlaloc_Temporal,
@Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca avatar

After closing a dozen left over from looking up various topics over the last few days, 164 tabs, some of which are probably 5 years old. I swear I’ll look at them someday!

ctag,
@ctag@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

You’re entering the danger zone of tab hoarding there…

257m,

More than I can count thats for sure.

oxideseven,

Bare minimum is 7 cus they are pinned. These are tabs I reference constantly. 2 for monitoring servers, 2 for emails, 2 for chat, 1 for lofi girl.

After that it’s just based on the current project. So anywhere from 1 for browsing to 20 while doing research.

Add another 7 if you include my work computer for the various sites I work out of.

I try to close anything not currently used quite often and just store things in bookmarks.

sbv,

I use a browser extension that closes the least recently used tab after 15 minutes. It stops closing when it reaches five for the current window.

I don’t think I’m missing anything.

Kase,

That sounds cool! Do you have the name?

sbv,

Tab Wrangler

1984,
@1984@lemmy.today avatar

Usually not more then 30 before I close most of them with “Close all tabs to the right”.

I have browsing history so don’t need tabs.

namingthingsiseasy,

Agreed. My rule of thumb is: if it takes enough more than a second to figure out why I had the tab open, then I might as well just close it and re-open it if the need to have it available reemerges. It takes a lot of effort (several seconds and a lot of mental energy) to create the mental context that I need to make use of the tab. On the other hand, opening it takes a few seconds and requires little to no thought whatsoever.

So I just close them. In fact, having too many tabs open just makes it take longer to find the open tabs that I’m actually currently using.

sheepishly,
@sheepishly@kbin.social avatar

69 (okay actually it was 67 but I opened a few more to make it the funny number)

PixxlMan, (edited )

I had over 2000 in Firefox. That’s when I decided to clear them…

ctag,
@ctag@lemmy.sdf.org avatar
CowsLookLikeMaps,

Savaran,

A few hundred. At the end of a “project/idea/thing” I’ll bookmark the entire set, dated, described, and close them all at once, things always come back in need later. It’s very satisfying.

For normal day to day browsing I have a window with about 15 pinned tabs that I just cycle through in the morning catching up on stuff and then close that window.

Icaria,

8 windows, ~17 tabs.

ctag,
@ctag@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

That’s a pretty good mix.

Icaria,

Basically just an evolution of the same way I used my desktop 20 years ago. Always had this concept of an Internet-connected computer as a dynamic newspaper, windows were individual columns arranged around the page/screen. Used to be a bunch of IRC windows along the bottom of my screen, maybe a couple of MSN windows up the side, and one or two browser windows (substitute one browser window with an email client or RSS reader) taking up the rest of the screen.

Well now everything is javascript. Google had the same idea with Google Wave a few years later, they abandoned it, but the javascript future happened anyway. Bunch of tiny browser windows along the bottom of the screen for discord, two large ones across the top for everything else (webmail, content aggregators like lemmy have largely replaced RSS), and a couple more on a second monitor.

weeeeum,

It fluctuates as I’m researching a topic to me snapping out of it and realizing “damn that’s a lot of tabs” and closing pretty much all of them.

So it usually goes from around 30 or something, down to 3 or 5 and it repeats.

On my phone I do actually have 1,500 since my browser opens another one everytime I use search on the home screen

AceFuzzLord, (edited )

Zero across my phone and desktop at the moment. Having more than around 5 tabs open at once does not sit well with me.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA,
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Never more than ten. Currently, seven.

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