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Finally back down to 14 tabs, still too embarrassed to show anyone (lemmy.world)
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[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 52 points 8 months ago (7 children)

How is that embarrassing? I have literally 639 tabs right now, across 39 windows. Just live your life as you see fit.

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 24 points 8 months ago

My god

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 months ago

I usually clear mine out when I get over 150 or so. My workflow absolutely doesn't work on Chrome, but Firefox seems to handle it fine.

[–] trigonated@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Probably because 10 out of 14 of them are porn lol

[–] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Finally, someone who understands me

[–] BlackPenguins@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How much memory does your computer have?

[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

32gb. The browser is using about 11.2gb of ram at the moment, but I haven't restarted the browser or the computer in about a week. After a browser restart it's usually only using 5~6gb, though that steadily climbs as I reactivate hibernated tabs.

Reposting from a previous comment I've made about this topic:

Bookmarks are for things I’ll need to reference again and again in the coming years. I do keep a tightly-curated bookmark collection, I just don’t want it clogged up with a bunch of stuff I can’t foresee needing in the long term.

Tabs are for things I’m working on right now and don’t need bookmarking for the long term. And, for what it’s worth, most of the browser windows are custom-titled, so the windows themselves are a lot like bookmark folders, while the tabs are like temporary bookmarks.

Plus, the ability to search through tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+A means that it ends up being faster to search through my tabs than my bookmarks, without using the mouse. ex: Ctrl+Shift+A, Type needed page, up/down arrows if needed, then hit enter to move to the tab. With Ctrl+Shift+O, you don’t get the same ease of scrolling the results without tabbing through a bunch of junk first.

There are other reasons, including neurological ones surely, but those are my primary justifications.

[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

..............why?

[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reposting a comment I wrote in another thread that explains it:

Bookmarks are for things I’ll need to reference again and again in the coming years. I do keep a tightly-curated bookmark collection, I just don’t want it clogged up with a bunch of stuff I can’t foresee needing in the long term.

Tabs are for things I’m working on right now and don’t need bookmarking for the long term. And, for what it’s worth, most of the browser windows are custom-titled, so the windows themselves are a lot like bookmark folders, while the tabs are like temporary bookmarks.

Plus, the ability to search through tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+A means that it ends up being faster to search through my tabs than my bookmarks, without using the mouse. ex: Ctrl+Shift+A, Type needed page, up/down arrows if needed, then hit enter to move to the tab. With Ctrl+Shift+O, you don’t get the same ease of scrolling the results without tabbing through a bunch of junk first.

There are other reasons, including neurological ones surely, but those are my primary justifications.

[–] Kindness@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

In Firefox Ctl+T opens a new tab, "% " will search your open tabs.

[–] LengAwaits@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You caught me. I still daily drive Chrome. I am an on-again off-again Firefox user and have been for nearly 2 decades.

That said, I appreciate that input. I've been working on switching over to using Firefox as my daily driver, but it's going to take some time for me to fully transition, unless you know of an extension or script that can migrate all my chrome tabs over to Firefox. I'm curious to see if it can handle my full browsing habits, now that they've evolved into what most would consider "tab hoarder" behavior.

[–] Kindness@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

No shame, we all do what we do. Keep doing what works for you.

I'm not sure if One Tab will work for you, but it's worth a shot if you want to switch.

Typically FF will make background tabs sleep after a time, to reclaim resources.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

Yeah, I see no issue with this. Im not gonna save seasons or bookmark entire window, Ill just leve it there, why not. RAM is there to be used.