A year or so ago, I started using an addon to put tabs in categories/windows because of this. Then I added more categories. And more.
I have easily a few hundred tabs now. My “general” category has maybe 60? My (unsaved) porn category, shit 300+? Then I’ve got server management, shopping, and a few others, with like 25ish each. And then I was like, ah ha, I’ll be smart, I’ll save things as bookmarks so stuff I’m shopping or researching or whatever is moved out of the way until I need it, then I’ll export and use linkding to manage it all. Fuck it, I’ll just use it for all categories as I clean up this mess slowly. Well long story short now I have a fuckload of tabs and 1k+ bookmark links. But the good news is I can simultaneously link you details about implementing Fail2Ban, info on a dozen docker containers, show you my progress so far on locally-hosted security systems, and a dozen tabs about whatever kink you want, without searching for anything.
screams
Most browsers are now “sleeping” tabs so it’s only saving the URL, and not any of the data/objects on it. It’s kind of necessary given that modern
websitesadware has the system requirements of Crysis.Imagine giving websites unfiltered permission to run code and display ads.
I was amazed to find out you can open a new tab by using middle-click in firefox.
Can you not do that in other browsers?
You can, another comment mentioned that. Only, I didn’t mean to spread misinformation because I haven’t used anything else in years.
What is your phone made of 32 gb ram
I think it might have exploded if I hit “undo”
Fr lmao
vertical tabs for the win! I switched recently and it ignited this habit for me 😅
I have 21 tabs open right now, including this one. That’s on my personal machine. Don’t ask how many I have open on my work machine that I haven’t rebooted in a few weeks.
Tree Style Tabs are pretty great if you like having hundreds of tabs open: https://addons.mozilla.org/pt-BR/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
It slows down the browser though. I switched to sidebery.
and then you get to close all tabs right of the first
And everything freezes for like 3 seconds while it churns through that process. Lol.
Browser: “Are you gonna order somethin’ kid!?” (all subsequent data streams to Google for future sale)
User: “Uh yeah, give me, gimme a tab.”
Browser: “A tab. I can’t give you a tab unless you order something!”
User: “But I’m jonesin for some saccharin … not that newtra-schweddy or whatever it is”
Biff Yaml enters; sits two spaces down, feeling sexagesimal: “What are you looking at, BUTTHEAD!?” (all of his comments are one line)
Python Strickland enters: "User what are you doing? Four spaces are used for indentation. You got a real attitude problem, user; you’re a slacker! You remind me of your dunder father when he went here; he was a slacker, too! Quack quack. (his package is poorly managed)
Linus Torvalds enters: heavy breathing … curses in Finnish (Älykääpiö!) … gits out
IBM Selectric: “Hold my beer … and my ball”
Obnoxious neighbor kid walks in (a real ascii): Invokes char(11)/VT; sits on the floor. His Mylar balloon flies away, hits a high voltage line, and the power goes out.
Browser: “Well, looks like the milkshake machine’s broken.”
Teletype Model 28 looks up from drinking coffee and reading the morning paper tape: “I would like to be … modified”
Doc Mill (nee’ Rampazetto) enters: (shudders) “Momma bollocks!”
During this time, Helium was on a noble mission and did not react.
Jeezus crust
Somewhere… far in the future, a distant entity read this marvelously nonsensical opus & decided humanity wasn’t always completely hopeless.
We have here with us, my fellow humans; a truly ‘Hoopy Frood’…if I’m allowed to quote Douglas without seeming rude.
Hey, guys? Bookmarks. Every browser has nesting, organizable, searchable bookmark folders. Get your laundry off the chair, fold it, and put it in drawers.
Even easier to be lazy is to use Onetab.
The goal is not to be lazy, it’s to build a file system that efficiently combines related tasks and interests. Lazy is just leaving your clean laundry in a pile.
Really going hard on this laundry analogy. I feel like there’s a story here, maybe you’re a frustrated parent?
Also, bookmarks ftw.
I jokingly made the comment but I do use bookmarks. It’s just better with a tab session saving add on, because I don’t want to clutter my actually useful bookmark list with links that I’ll only need to check once as the meme in the op shows.
Bookmarks are superb now, I can add keywords and tags to each bookmark so I can browse for exactly what sort of sites i’m looking for. So yeah I’m all for sorting all my briefs and speedos with gusto 👍
My old sock drawer has been cleaned out more recently than my browser bookmarks. Just saying…
Thousands of those
When you have more tabs than a pharmacy, it’s time to worry!
Man, I’m so glad my ADHD kicks in the other way with this
The only time I let myself get over 3/4 tabs is when I’m searching for an answer in documentation or downloading game mods or similar, middle-click a whole shitton of pages then go through them, but always close them when I’m done with them because otherwise how will I find anything?
My bookmarks are organized, but also contain links to pages that died 10 years ago so maybe I should clean that
I will just leave these here:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/dustman
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/duplicate-tabs-closer
I have more than 100 tabs open on my phone browser and it still works fine, so meh.
So genuine question, what are the benefits or reasons for having multiple tables open rather than saving as bookmarks or links? It just doesn’t make any sense to me but seems to be pretty common for people to do any more and I want to understand
Sub-optimal ADHD coping strategy (kind of a joke). Some people just… don’t have object permanence? Like if they don’t have visual reminders it falls completely out of their brain. I don’t get it because I have a terrible memory but I deal with that by organizing and developing habits like always putting things down in the same spot. I hate sifting through clutter.
If I bookmark a link then close out of it I’m far more likely to forget about it. Vs just opening a tab and getting to it when I get to it, or just mass closing tabs every once in a while.
