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YaketySaxreply
discuss.online

I've just counted and I have 74 Firefox windows open... god knows how many tabs that is...

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mateomauireply
reddthat.com

Damn this gives me anxiety but makes me feel better at the same time.

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… and I was just trying to wrap my head around 400 tabs in 8 windows.

edit: I think I’ve just gotten a habit of saving to bookmarks so the browser doesn’t take forever to open, before unloading inactive tabs became a thing.

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lemm.ee

I mean 8 windows alone are anoying enough. How are you supposed to find your main one, without circulating through all of them?

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Fetusreply
lemmy.world

Each window serves a different purpose, and tabs in each window are usually grouped together so that they're somewhat related.

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As someone who does something similar, you should try Sidebery. It lets you have tab panels - basically groups - and each one has a tree of tabs. Much better than having a large amount of windows.

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kbin.social

27? My phone has so many tabs open that it only shows a ":D" as the number.

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Meeechreply
lemmy.world

I just did a purge and I'm down to 4. It'll be interesting to see how fast it gets back to :D

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Appoxoreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

.....
I counted the tabs on the phone browser I use for reading user submitted stories...471 tabs in total...
More than I thought.

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Since it counts grouped tabs (chrome android) I only had to count about 15 groups.

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lemmy.world

I mean if you have over 5000 tabs open, your system is probably smoking weed and drinking molten salt, just to keep cool.

Bob knows that my system can't really function with more than about 250 tabs open.

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dankmreply

Firefox gives up keeping open tabs up to date. I've had 5000 tabs open without any slowdown. But I do realise this is about Chrome....

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kbin.social

I use Firefox and I'm kind of old school, I don't usually leave tabs open.

I just have a bookmark folder for temporary bookmarks. All 500 of them.

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x4740Nreply
lemmy.world

And here's me who uses tab groups but ends up putting most of my random tabs in random tab groups so it ends up being unorganised

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I believe I have between 100 and 200 open tabs. That’s just on my main browser. I’ll get back to them, I swear

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x4740N
lemmy.world

Should be moving to Firefox, chrome is like a toxic girlfriend that's evil to the core but tries to keep you with gaslighting

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I would love to go back to Firefox, but ironically Edge is better at syncing things regularly for me. And I need that sync so that I don’t need to have all the 50 or so tabs on my phone too.

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lemmy.world

It's funny seeing a tweet of someone I know irl on Lemmy.

But as I told him when he first posted this 27 tabs is nothing. I've had hundreds. Firefox doesn't even flinch the absolute Chad of a browser it is.

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Cethinreply

Firefox is better about it, but it doesn't stop me from having several GB of RAM eaten up by all my tabs and windows.

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I had to start using bookmarks again because I had tabs open for months

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Between all my devices, I probably have more like 27^27

That's 4.43426488243e+38, so yeah.

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You can use Stash Tab extension and move the shame to a place you don't see near your face constnatly while ignoring it lol. And because it saves as different tabs (under date and time, although you might be able to edit the title name), it becomes a bit less overwhelming to come back to.

But yes, only at mobile I got around 200 tabs :(

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Now this is one I can't relate to. Keeping browser tabs open when I'm not using them bothers the hell out of me.

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I just use bookmarks for stuff I want to keep more than one sitting

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midwest.social

I will never understand the need for a shit load of tabs for personal use. Work/school stuff, sure, but having tabs open for stuff "in case I need it later" is insane. Bookmark it.

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Not important enough to bookmark, too important to close.

Pinning a tab hits the middle ground between these.

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Azzureply
lemm.ee

I have vertical tabs, so I can see ~30 tabs clearly on one window. Long time non-visited tabs also use no resources. Bookmarking would just be one more click, moving the tab somewhere not easily visible.

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midwest.social

My bookmarks are clearly visible and take only a single click to open. If you didn't have a ton of tabs just sitting there, maybe opening a new one wouldn't "move it somewhere not easily visible."

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Azzureply
lemm.ee

I have no bookmarks displayed, so doing it your way would only lose screen space for me. Tabs are displayed in any case, bookmarks or no.

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My bookmarks are on the same level as my address bar, I lose no space to this other than having a slightly shorter address bar, which is too long anyway.

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