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.
Sending this to my wife. She flips her shit when she loses her tab prison.
Set them free. If they come back it’s meant to be.
When troubleshooting a problem I’ll often end up with 10-20 tabs open. I realize many people end up with hundreds or more and, if that works for them, fine; however, I find even what I open stressful. As a result, I’ve occasionally found it helpful to fully close my browser and relaunch without any of the old stuff.
I also do a lot of searching in private mode, but that’s mostly because I’m embarrassed about some of the simple things I have to look up. Supposedly the company doesn’t actively track what sites we visit and now there’s no local evidence of how stupid I am. Well, at least not via my web searches.
ctrl-shift-t
If I want to save something, I bookmark it.
This is why I have different broswer profiles for different things with links to them in my start menu. Helps me maintain order amidst the chaos that is my broswer tabs/bookmarks.
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?
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.
Insanity. Those are all things I want to look at later.
I close all tabs before I close the browser.
I only have more than two or three open if I’m researching something.
I use bookmarks, I have maybe 75 bookmarks.
I use the Singlefile extension to save full pages if I think I’ll want to reference something in the future, but don’t want to use a bookmark.
Laughs nervously
Do it
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How? Why?
I can delete them any time. I am not addicted. I definitely need them again at some point
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.
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
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.
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
Yeah it kind of makes me irrationally angry when people try to defend it lol
I lost 5 years worth of restaurants and travel places I’d been secretly saving to do retirement trips with my wife someday (lol, retirement…)
They got moved to “archived” and then apparently they get removed from archived after 30 days unless you disable that “feature”
I went to add a restaurant one day and the entire set of tabs was gone. No idea how long it had been gone for, and browsing through my history of closed tabs on my cell phone was neigh impossible.
I’m still incredibly salty about that.
This is what bookmarks are for. I have folders of bookmarks.
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.
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.
