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Text: My browser when I open the 42nd tab and beyond

A 2 panel image of Michael Jordan: Stop it. Get some help.

  • clb92@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    I’ve had about 1000+ tabs open before, but I’ve gotten better at keeping them under control. It’s very normal for me to hit a couple hundred, once in a while, though, before I go through them all and weed out the ones I’m done with. Right now I only have 24, but 19 of them are my pinned tabs that are used all the time.

    • BorgDrone@lemmy.one
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, I usually hover around 300-400 open tabs. I clean them up once in a while but it just builds up again.

      • The Cuuuuube@beehaw.org
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        2 months ago

        I had to install a plugin to just close tabs I hadn’t viewed in a while. I’m certainly not going to develop better tab discipline

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    On Desktop, as soon as the tab bars are getting smaller to make room for more tabs on the screen, I feel like I have too many open.

    • takeda@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The old Opera when it used the Pesto engine was even better at it.

      I believe literally everyone who used Opera had the habit of having a lot of tabs. They were extremely lightweight.

      Sadly they abandoned the engine and now Opera is yet another chrome clone.

    • SuzyQ@sh.itjust.works
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      2 months ago

      I feel called out 😅

      I have had whatever number of tabs open on Firefox mobile where it stops giving you a number and you get the ∞ symbol…

      • Sanctus@lemmy.world
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        2 months ago

        I feel like mobile is fair. Things open new tabs automatically a lot more. But I have seen some scary posts asking how to organize tens of thousands of tabs. There’s a neat part to that.

        • cheddar@programming.dev
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          2 months ago

          Doesn’t Firefox on mobile can be configured to automatically close tabs after some period? I recall enabling that. That solves this problem!

  • Emmie@lemm.ee
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    1 month ago

    I once closed 9k tabs on the phone. I swear I felt a mild earthquake and power went off in the whole building. Eye of google appeared before me with hissy “I see you”

  • Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    There is a rule about having more than 34 tabs. Search Firefox rule 34 and you can see what happens.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Firefox doesn’t let all of your tabs have memory all the time. It’s quite aggressive in taking them out of memory into your disk.

    • tyler@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Last year I had 2200 or something like that open, but I haven’t counted this year. FF handles it fine. Chrome wasn’t ever able to handle more than a hundred or so. I haven’t used chrome in 6 or 7 years now though.

        • tyler@programming.dev
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          1 month ago

          I don’t really understand how bookmarks would help. Like, let’s imagine you’re in your office doing research and your office happens to be the Library of Congress. You have a bunch of books with different references open on the table. You need to go to sleep. Is it easier to write down every single page you have bookmarked and put it on a piece of paper on the table, then close all the books put them back on the shelf, go to sleep, wake up, and then take all the books back off of the shelf, reference your paper, and open every book again back to those pages to continue working? I very much doubt so. Bookmarks are one of the worst inventions of the browser honestly. They do not accomplish anything they mean to. I use bookmarks for one thing. Pages I visit daily and don’t need to remember context in. e.g. github repos. And then I use vimium to navigate to them with fuzzy search. Working projects always stay open and I use Sidebery to maintain groupings.

          • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
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            1 month ago

            i thought we were talking about random tabs that have been open for a long time. ofc i wouldn’t close ones that i’m working with.

        • Eheran@lemmy.world
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          2 months ago

          More like save the whole session for later use. Who the hell saves hundreds of even thousands of bookmarks?

          • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
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            1 month ago

            i save everything i think i may find useful later. i have categorized them into a few folders. but still not hundreds.

  • db2@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    65 on my phone. None of them are junk, one is the new tab page so I can search immediately. 🤷