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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.

  • Mango@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    42 is supposed to be the exaggeration meme???

    Bro my mobile browser has so many tabs open it stopped giving me a number and gives me a smiley face instead. It’s like 150.

    • orbitz@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      How do you find which one you want with 150 open? Genuinely curious is all, I’m old and mostly use PC and can type quick enough to find what I want if I know which site (wikis for games and such). If I had to scroll through 150 tabs I’d spend half the time looking through a list so wonder how it helps to have that many open. Or maybe I just don’t read fast enough to scroll well.

      • Matthew@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        The search bar will show open tabs matching the query along side a switch to tab button. I’ve seen it on desktop anyway, I’d think it’s on mobile as well. I’d wager that individuals with that many tabs left open never go back to them though lol

    • 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.orgEnglish
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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

    • tweeks@feddit.nl
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      2 months ago

      Chrome went to a :D above 99. But I believe they changed that, not sure as I use FF now too.

    • 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.worldEnglish
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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!

          • takeda@lemmy.world
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            2 months ago

            I have it set to close after a week, but still reaching a point when ff no longer bothers to count them.

          • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            2 months ago

            I actually use the feature that groups them when inactive long enough. If I save a tab on my computer I’m never going back to it but, for some reason, I do eventually get to it on my phone before closing. Usually news articles in reader mode.

  • 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. 🤷

    • 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.

        • 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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            2 months ago

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

        • tyler@programming.dev
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          2 months 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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            2 months 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.

    • 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.

  • 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.