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.
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.
Years ago I made a habit of actively closing all tabs one-by-one when I’m done with work/research.
I’ll also do this partially throughout the day. Imo feels nice and tidy.
Anything I might need later (aka never again in 99% of cases) I’ll save as a bookmark or a as a note somewhere else.
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
Do it
How? Why?
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
I can delete them any time. I am not addicted. I definitely need them again at some point
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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.
Sending this to my wife. She flips her shit when she loses her tab prison.
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.
Insanity. Those are all things I want to look at later.
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.
If I want to save something, I bookmark it.
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.
ctrl-shift-t
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.
