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 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.
Hello Sir, it’s Stephen from IT,
Sir. Please reboot your PC before you ever even think about giving us a call.
Hope to never hear from you. hangs up
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.
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
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.
I have three categories of tabs:
- web apps I want to keep open all the time for notifications that I don’t want to install (Discord, calendar, email)
- tabs I’m currently switching back and forth between or plan to soon
- tabs from the second category that I forgot to close or left open because I never got around to the task I planned to use them for
The last one is the largest by several orders of magnitude.
So I understand the first one, if you don’t want an app open handling them. I still usually just open email or calendars when I want to check them, and close the tab again after, but also don’t have a job that requires me to constantly monitor them.
The second point I guess I do as well in short term, but more whatever I am actively, currently try working on. I’ve never needed a long term organization for that, though, since it was always more like having several loose leaf papers spread on my desk and less like putting multiple bookmarks in a book and coming back to it over several hours or days. If there’s no need to use it in the next 20 minutes or so, I just bookmark and close it.
The third I just really don’t grok. Maybe I just really need a tidy browser workspace, but I usually have one, maybe two tabs open at a time when I’m not actively using them and referencing between them. I dont have any tabs that can be forgotten, because I close them immediately after I use them and no longer need them right now.
I guess it is no different than having bookmarks for everything, except I can hide those. I just hate the “look” of a bunch of tabs open (as a personal preference).
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.
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
Is managing your tabs and searching for a particular one faster than using a search engine though?
Fair point. My browser (FF) supports ‘search in tabs’ as well and suggest it over a new search engine result when typed in the address bar. I don’t know what about the style makes me think this, but it looks like FF on Windows in the Screenshot.
I keep open tabs with stuff I want to check regularly, so that I don’t forget
And do you?
Here I am getting claustrophobic with more than 6 tabs, I usually close my browser after a project so all the history and cookies clear
I have 69 right now … On my phone.
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.
My old sock drawer has been cleaned out more recently than my browser bookmarks. Just saying…
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
The feeling I have about people that have more than 8 tabs open is the same feeling I have for people that have their desktop full of random shit.
Which is…?
Asking for a friend.
My desktop is empty because I don’t use it. I hide all icons as well so the system ones don’t show either. As for my tabs… why don’t we talk about something else, and not why I got 64gb of ram so I could open more tabs.
The funny thing is I’m in IT. The amount of tabs I have open is usually due to solving issues, opening multiple tabs of info to research without losing place. Just I often tend to forget to close some when done, or I get interrupted by either other work, questions (I’m an escalation point so helping my coworkers is also part of my job), or straight up ADHD. I used to keep tabs open to track manga/manhwa I’m interested or reading, but I use an app for that now and close apps way more often now.
I still might get a bunch open when trying to figure out game stuff or making choices for either shopping or D&D/Pathfinder or just something I need to look up, but the manga/manhwa was really the one that kept stuff open for days at a time.
To be fair, I’m the opposite of efficient with my tab usage. I close tabs often as soon as I switch to a different task, only to find out I still needed that tab.
I only just weeks ago discovered that tabs are kept open after rebooting (I had to turn power off during a session). That is how automatically I close tabs normally. A blessing and a curse.
I feel this, I like to see my wallpaper
I have like 10 icons on my desktop. And it’s mostly just junk that added itself to the desktop and I just haven’t deleted it yet because I never actually see my desktop.
Shivers
Nightmare fuel I tell you. NIGHTMARE FUEL!
why search on google when i can search my open tabs?
Having your tabs trees in runtimedir on a rolling distro, so you have to clean up and save as bookmarks every weekend.
Or – living on the edge.
deleted by creator
I was amazed to find out you can open a new tab by using middle-click in firefox.
In all browsers. For like 15 years already.
Close it as well, don’t need to press the X.
Also works in Windows Explorer
Ctrl+w
Ctrl+shift+t to recover a tab you closed by accident
You mean Ctrl + Shift+ t t t t t t
Because the thing you needed was always like 6 tabs ago
I feel called out both in this comment and the post
Can you not do that in other browsers?
When you have more tabs than a pharmacy, it’s time to worry!
I have more than 100 tabs open on my phone browser and it still works fine, so meh.
Are you sure you want to close 208 tabs?
The Lord of the Tabs? Bilbo Tabbins?
deleted by creator
The dwarves of yore made mighty tabs,
Windows open like unsightly slabs
In websites deep, where dark things creep,
In mother’s basement beneath the hells.
