I’m always surprised people hoard tabs. The explanation is always some crazy shit and they’re basically bookmarks to some
I view bookmarks as being for sites that I intend to visit regularly enough to warrant making a handy link. A tab is for a place I plan to visit once, probably soon, but not right now, so I want to remember it, but not to the point where I’ll make a dedicated bookmark link to it. Usually it’s a video I want to watch at some point when I have more time, or a recipe I think I’ll try making in a few days. The issue is when I don’t get the motivation to do what I kept the tab open to do, so I start getting a backlog of tabs that I simultaneously don’t want to lose because I kept them open for a reason, but I don’t want to visit because there are too many of them to parse through.
I just use bookmarks for that. If it isn’t worth bookmarking I’m just not gonna bother. I’ll find it in the history if I want to for whatever reason (almost never happens)
if i bookmark something i might as well have deleted it (my object permanence is bad). when it’s a tab i can at least see it there at all times
There’s the bookmarks bar. I use it mostly for most used stuff but if you have space there you could just save stuff there. It is visible but not as a tab
But if tabs work for you, no reason to change that tbh
I use my bookmark bar for nostolgia. All those sites from middle/high school that I am never clicking again and likely don’t exist anymore. But seeing the names of the sites bring me joy at times.
Look into extensions like “read it later” or the like if your browser doesn’t support it out of the box. It is a list of things you need to read/view once and when done, it is removed from the list.
You may find handy the extension “onetab”
Nah, the tabs have to be in the way. The inconvenience of having a lot of tabs is the point. If i can just export a list or turn them into bookmarks and forget about them, I will. It’s like the 10 different alarms that I have on my phone that go off every week on the off chance that this time I’ll actually be motivated to do what they’re reminding me to do. I always get around to it eventually, it just takes time.
If I bookmark it I will forget about it and never visit it again.
Could put it in the bookmarks toolbar I guess. But sounds like many people hoard the toolbars because they want to visit the sites but never actually do
And you would remember to visit them again when they are in your 800 tabs?
Laughs nervously
How? Why?
I can delete them any time. I am not addicted. I definitely need them again at some point
it opens another level of “why” when you realize according to those stats, they have 5 other windows that have a cumulative 474 tabs. the 863 is just that window
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Bro, every one of those websites has now seen everything you’ve done online with the cookies. I think. I have firefox set up to clear on exit, and do so multiple times a day if using it a lot. Obviously after porn, but other stuff too.
Do it
Funnily enough, on firefox on my PC I have an entire extension called “no tabs” which does exactly what it says and disables tabs. On my phone just never open any tho :3
Disables tabs? Like you have to close one site to look at another? I am envious that you can make that work.
Well, if any site attempts to open a new tab, it’ll just automatically pull it to a new browser window instead :3. Otherwise in general I would have to close the site im looking at if I wanted to open something else in the same window, rather than launching a new one
Tabs are a new thing. They have not existed as long as browsers have.
I’ve honestly started doing that at least once a week and it really feels good for my mind to let that go. I can find whatever site it was later on when I actually need it again
If the tabs truly love you, they will come back.
They don’t, the tabs are using you, they will leave you after you don’t serve them any longer. Whores.
On Monday morning turn on the extension “tabs2text”
Export to markdown and paste into an Emacs org-file under a new date.
Close all tabs and turn off the extension.
Now you are clear to start another week without fear of losing a link and without the burden of any open tabs.
Insanity. Those are all things I want to look at later.
I will open 15 tabs, forget why, and just close my browser. I keep history off. Writing a commemt? Doesn’t matter. Email? There’s probably a draft. Half finished video? The algorithm will guide it back to me if it was meant to be.
I dream about one day achieving this vibe. But what if I need it later???
Redo it. Don’t overwhlem yourself with managaing everything all at once. If needed, plan your actions, but leaving your life in a constant state of chaos is really only a distraction. When you do come back, you had enough incentive to return. It’ll help motivate you to finish stuff.
Sometimes I’ll declare tab bankruptcy and just close the whole window. If it’s important I’ll find it again
Tabs are ephemeral
I don’t even save history
Set them free. If they come back it’s meant to be.
It honestly pisses me off that restoring tabs is default behavior. If I closed the browser I meant too and if I didn’t mean to oh fucking well. If I wanted to save that shit for later it would have been a bookmark.
For all y’all thinking closing 800 tabs is bad, that’s a habit exploited by session stealing attacks to take your money, socials, and email.
i think closing 10 tabs is bad. 800 who are some of you people and what are your brains like this is incredible
I switched to vertical tabs and started using tab groups so I never lose anything I don’t mean to (I treat non-grouped tabs as ephemeral)
But that’s just because I always have the same stuff open (LAN services, but also videos and music because I use tabs like a pseudo playlist)
I prefer to just have one tab open unless I’m copying or pasting or have to reference something from another site at the same time.
My goldfish memory makes me forget about the other open tabs after a while anyway, so they become useless xD
