This makes me feel good about my 300+ open tabsπ
this post was submitted on 04 May 2024
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So from a security mindset, this is a nightmare. This person must be a paid plant for Big Cross-Site-Tracking
So anyone can be a power user if they never close their tabs?
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.
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 I'm 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
If I want to keep a site longer than a day I bookmark it. I have no clue how anyone can cope with this many tabs, it's like an email backlog but for your browser.
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
534 tabs for me currently on FF Android. A good part of it is fanfiction, the ones I've not read or chosen not to bookmark yet.
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
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