- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- datahoarder@lemmy.ml
How is that a “power user”? That’s just a poor way to use the browser. It’s basically just 7400 bookmarks in one long list; you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
A power user would use something called “bookmarks” to organise that better.
Sidebery entered the chat
you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
You can with extensions. Tree Style Tabs, I dont even have a top tab bar.
Imagine her reaction when she finds out that firefox got a browsing history feature
and it even has a bookmarks feature with folder support!
Maybe it’s just my ADHD, but I can’t even imagine managing that many tabs.
In my workflow, I start a project, then keep opening new tabs as I need to look things up, frequently moving tabs between multiple browsers spanning my 32" monitor. So long as I’m working on that problem, I just keep opening new tabs.
Then, when I’ve finally squared away the section of the project I was working on, I usually just close the browser entirely and start fresh.
Needing to manually sift through the 80+ tabs I chaotically opened in the last hour or so to figure out what’s worth keeping? Hell no. That’s what browser history is for. It’s Etch-a-Sketch time! Shake it clean and start fresh.
You want the session addon. Also profile switcher. My project topic usually span 500-1000 tabs each and I often have 15-30 projects going in a single session. Can’t wait until I can use open source LLM to ask questions about all the content of all my tavs.
Seems like your ADHD manifests in a different way than some others. I have no less than 90 tabs open across three monitors and damnit I nEeD all of them!
I typically have 50-200 browser tabs open, but I also usually have 5+ browser windows running. So, like, when I’m building something, I’ll have the thing I’m building and all its parts spread across two windows, and a third window with all my reference materials. Then I can cleanly kill them all when I’m done.
I don’t really know what I’d keep from those when that workflow is done. The thing is built, so I don’t need any of it anymore.
I feel the exact same
Seeing colleagues crawl through 10 different tabs every time they want to check a documentation is quite a bit frustrating
I can’t imagine keeping tabs open between tasks
Same. It’s just that my tasks tend to stretch multiple days and overlap, so there’s rarely a clear cutoff.
I’m a software developer and team lead, so I’m often involved in two separate releases simultaneously, planning on one or two major features, and new development on another project, so I have tabs related to each. I try to make time every couple weeks to clear out a couple hundred tabs that have accumulated.
My workflow works for me though, and it feels real good to close hundreds of tabs knowing that one big project is finally finished.
ADHD moment
“I have so many topics I want to look at at once!” proceeds to get distracted with one of them and forget about all the others
Out of sight out of mind.
That’s my problem. Three screen setup. I have three browser instances open.
Instance 1: YouTube. (Left screen) Instance 2: Gaming wiki’s and info for the game I’m currently playing. (Right screen) Instance 3. Online courses and study materials. (Right screen. I swap between instance 2 and 3 based on what in currently doing on my main monitor).
I’ll constantly delay or forget to study just because it’s not the currently opened in the foreground.
This makes me feel better about the 100-200 tabs I have perpetually open.
The first time this meme has truly resonated with my soul.
I feel like a power user would have a clean and clear bookmark game, not thousand of tabs… How the hell do you even navigate into this mess? I’ve just re-organise my bookmarks and folders, imported them in nextcloud, and I feel like the master of the internet.
With Quick Tabs Ported, you don’t need to look for where tabs are; just invoke the extension and type any part of its name to find and jump to it. It’s been life-changing for me, personally (but yeah, I don’t keep anywhere near this number of tabs, still, haha).
I use Tab Stash if I’m about to close/restart the browser or I changed the focus of my research, but if I don’t wanna lose some keywords or something, I prefer to use KNotes (or any sticky notes) and write why some keywords are important and their context, so I don’t have to maintain too many open tabs. Just yesterday I had like 15 tabs and was overwhelmed lol
I wonder if they were using FF back when they had the Panorama feature back in the day. That many tabs seems like it would be great for organizing everything. It is almost hilarious to think that FF was so far ahead of the game that it just didn’t make sense. Now all the other major browsers are adding some kind of tab groups feature.
The way FF did it was cool and was like having virtual desktops but groups of tabs. Aside from proper vertical tabs that keeps theme and doesn’t require hacking settings to get rid of the horizontal row (Edge and Brave are good examples as their hover to expand titles and collapse when using the pages are smooth). Bringing back grouping tabs like Panorama had them would be really cool to have again.
Though I would love to see a blend of nice vertical tabs and groups like what I see in screenshots of browsers like Arc. Very different looking but in a good way. If FF could make their own spin of that UI work with both vertical and horizontal tabs. It would be dope af.
I have three open and feel like its a bit much.
I have three pinned tabs, and about 10 more important ones. Here’s what I generally have open:
Pinned @ work:
- Jira
- Okta
- Postman (I’m a BE dev)
“Essential” tabs at work:
- about 5 main Github repos (we have over a dozen, but I mostly stick to those)
- a couple Confluence pages
- a couple Google Docs
- QA test run page
Pinned at home:
- wavemaker - creative writing, and I always forget the hostname
“Essential” tabs at home:
- my gitlab
- a couple game wikis
- FOSS projects in development I depend on
I can get to pretty much everything else quickly with DDG bangs or memory.
So at work, a “clean” browser is mostly filled with tabs, and at home it’s about half filled with tabs. I keep the essential ones on the far left, so “close to right” generally works well.
Same How do people navigate all those tabs? Or do they always open a new one? It’s SO much clutter
And here am I, getting twitchy the moment the tab size shrinks. I can’t imagine having so many tabs open.
It’s bad enough my brain already does that by itself
A Mozilla rep confirms to PCMag that having tons of Firefox tabs open consumes “practically no memory whatsoever.”
Is there an extension to change this? I literally want to keep all of my tabs in memory no matter what. It drives me nuts when I change tabs and it reloads the page, or the bank website will only load slowly while I’m looking at its tab.
I’m not sure if it fixes your problem, but it fixed mine.
Pin the tab.
In my case, Whatsapp web didn’t get loaded when I opened firefox, so notifications didn’t reach me unless I opened the tab at least once.
If the tab is pinned, however, it will load when you open firefox, I’m unsure if the tab stays loaded.
God, I think I had 500 open on my old phone alone… Though I usually don’t pass 50 on desktop, because they’re easier to manage and harder to bury or forget about
I have like 20 on my phone, usually 100-200 on my desktop, so the reverse. Since tabs are harder to manage on my phone, I tend to clean them up a lot more often.
…Meanwhile im over here clear all on close
Hazel sounds like my soulmate. I have a good 1500+ tabs open on any given moment
Your addon list please
I use a tab manager, and a tab killer that kills the process while not actively in use to save resources. I believe the tab killer is auto tab discard, and the tab manager I can’t remember which it is right now
May I ask you what you actually need that many tabs for? I do research for my work but I usually start closing stuff at 50ish tabs lates
A lot of things stay open and I might lose touch for sure.
But I have a lot of “per window” tab groups about specific work subjects, specific technologies, specific subjects of interest. A lot of it stays open until I look into it, which sometimes can take a while
Aren’t these bookmarks ?
Nobody actually looks at bookmarks, or at least I don’t. Bookmarks are where I dump tabs that I should look at, but probably won’t, but want to clean up tabs.
I have a few hundred bookmarks, but I don’t think I’ve actually looked at any. I usually get around to looking at my open tabs though.
That said, I generally cap out around 200 open tabs, and then I’ll cut it down to 10 or so essential tabs. This happens almost weekly. “Close to the right” and “shift click” to select multiple tabs are amazing.
I use bookmarks, but I don’t group them into folders. Instead, I add multiple keywords/tags. I don’t really use them by going to the bookmark menu. I rely on them showing up in the search recommendations when I am searching for something.
That’s how I use tabs, and I don’t need keywords or tags. Just search in the bar, and switch to the tab. It works pretty well.
How do you even know what’s open after 50??