• Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM
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    7 months ago

    My daughter never closes tabs. It’s infuriating. I’m doing online school with her and I have to constantly tell her to close tabs. “You don’t need to keep that O. Henry story tab open anymore. You didn’t even like it.”

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      7 months ago

      Stop me if you’ve heard this before: “But if I need it again later it’ll be goooooone…!”

      Today we’re going to teach you all about bookmarks.

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        I have that issue myself but I just use an add on or extension that unloads the tab when I’m not using it, or something like one tab where I can store tabs indefinitely “just in case” and ease my tab hoarding mind. Cause I don’t wanna bookmark the tabs, I prefer to use bookmarks for important links or ones I revisit regularly, I just often don’t know if I might need a tab one more time again in the future, or might plan to go back to it eventually, so I need a different method to manage it.

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    I downloaded Firefox on my dad’s computer and made it the main browser, then added an add on that unloads tabs that haven’t been used after a certain amount of time, specifically to avoid this lol.

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      7 months ago

      “Why do you always have a 2TB SSD attached to your computer?”

      “Oh, that’s my external RAM drive.”

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    I just recently closed about 2,000 tabs across 3 Firefox windows. Takes about 29GB of my 32GB RAM and a couple minutes to close any of the larger windows.

    EDIT: Found a screeny from it winding up

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      For me, Having 7 desktops open all with different programs and Firefox windows also makes 32 gigs if ram seem small lol

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    7 months ago

    Or just set expiration time for old tabs for people that don’t bother with closing manually. 1 week should be totally more than enough.

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    7 months ago

    When you google en passant each time someone tells you to do it. Don’t do it, worst mistake of my life

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    7 months ago

    Ctrl+W

    Works for closing many things, not just in browsers.

    Or middle mouse click.

    Closing tabs would be a chore and remain open if all you knew was hitting the little X

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        it’s the browser. if they haven’t updated their browser in 10 years then closing the tabs will do nothing.