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Why? I open up a lot of tabs while researching things, and once I have found my solution, I can either review the rest of the tabs or close the window. So wha

by mitchty 10y ago

Why? I open up a lot of tabs while researching things, and once I have found my solution, I can either review the rest of the tabs or close the window. So what is the human problem with having many tabs exactly?

Alphasite_ 10y ago
Honestly, Chromes UI for lots of tabs sucks as well. Safari has multiple allowances for it and never shrinks tabs down into a tiny, useless state[1] nor does Safari have a tab limit. Frankly, Chrome sucks with a lot of tabs and sucks at conserving power, on a laptop it loses out on the two things that actually matter to me. [1] https://imgur.com/bZTgrCg https://imgur.com/bZTgrCg
- mitchty 10y ago
  No argument there, I use safari both for tab sanity and low battery use, I just don't get the hate for people using many tabs. They're basically stacks of mini bookmarks in my view.
miloshadzic 10y ago
Many tabs is not a hundred tabs. You can't really manage a hundred tabs. Try using bookmarks and a search engine.
- dr_zoidberg 10y ago
  I have a similar use pattern, and the short answer is: it isn't worth bookmarking. I (we?) are reading a lot and evaluating if it's even worth keeping. Once I've decided if it's worth keeping then yes, I will bookmark. But first I have to scan through the bunch of documents/pages/topics I have opened and see if they're of any use.
- kryptiskt 10y ago
  Tabs can be managed easily, I close them when I'm done. Bookmarks are long-term memory, tabs are short-term memory.
- mstade 10y ago
  I tried that, but it ended up just being a dump of oh so many bookmarks and I'd spend more time searching, finding all sorts of interesting stuff in my dumps of bookmarks, open those up, and then all of a sudden I'm back to having loads and loads of tabs open. Seriously, I'm like a tab addict. I need help.
  - drcross 10y ago
    It would be great if browsers had an option to only allow one instance of a certain website. Half my problem is opening multiple tabs of gmail, whatsapp and facebook, for example, when i'm only actually looking for one instance of them.
    - mstade 10y ago
      Pinnes tabs solve that, actually. Whenever I hit a Facebook link or whatever it just switches to and navigates the Facebook tab to the URL. This is an awesome feature and probably singelhandedly responsible for cutting my tab count by the tens anyway. Still not enough, but definitely a step in the right direction.
      - drcross 10y ago
        Do you mean pinned tabs? It doesn't switch to the existing tab for me on chrome with osx. In what environment does this work because I'm very interested in it.
        mstade 10y ago
        Oh sorry, I meant in Safari. Pinned tabs in Chrome was the killer feature that kept me around. When Safari finally got them I switched in a heart beat and haven't looked back since. (Other than for dev.)
- kentt 10y ago
  I manage 100 tabs and use vimium to search through them. I like this workflow and it's productive. I could close them and manage a bunch of bookmarks, but I find this is better for me.
dr_zoidberg 10y ago
I do almost the same as you, but with Firefox under Windows. A year ago I had to switch to the beta channel because the memory leaks in the "satble" version would crash it on restart (I have it configured to reload the previous session). A few months later problems began with beta version. Things got nasty when they tried the multiprocess architecture (which luckily has disappeared for good). Now (v 47) they've found a sweet spot. I have also slightly modified my usage patterns to mitigate the problem: * I would open one "main page" (HN, for example) and keep that open, refreshing and loading tabs in that window related to news, discussions, posts, etc. I'd never close this tab/window. -> (what I suspect) this would cause FF to keep hundreds (thousands?) of URLs and state in memory to respond to the Shift+T (reopen tab) command. * I now close the "main window" more often, and thus keep this behaviour at bay. This alone must be the one thing that impacted the browsers stability. * I try to keep less than 6 windows open at the same time (one with my email accounts, facebook main page, etc, another one for reddit/HN, and then specific windows for different topics). I haven't had to modify my habits any further fortunately. But I did use to have 20+ windows with ~20 tabs each in average.

by mitchty 10y ago

Alphasite_ 10y ago

Honestly, Chromes UI for lots of tabs sucks as well. Safari has multiple allowances for it and never shrinks tabs down into a tiny, useless state[1] nor does Safari have a tab limit. Frankly, Chrome sucks with a lot of tabs and sucks at conserving power, on a laptop it loses out on the two things that actually matter to me. [1] https://imgur.com/bZTgrCg https://imgur.com/bZTgrCg

mitchty 10y ago
No argument there, I use safari both for tab sanity and low battery use, I just don't get the hate for people using many tabs. They're basically stacks of mini bookmarks in my view.

miloshadzic 10y ago

Many tabs is not a hundred tabs. You can't really manage a hundred tabs. Try using bookmarks and a search engine.

dr_zoidberg 10y ago
I have a similar use pattern, and the short answer is: it isn't worth bookmarking. I (we?) are reading a lot and evaluating if it's even worth keeping. Once I've decided if it's worth keeping then yes, I will bookmark. But first I have to scan through the bunch of documents/pages/topics I have opened and see if they're of any use.
kryptiskt 10y ago
Tabs can be managed easily, I close them when I'm done. Bookmarks are long-term memory, tabs are short-term memory.
mstade 10y ago
I tried that, but it ended up just being a dump of oh so many bookmarks and I'd spend more time searching, finding all sorts of interesting stuff in my dumps of bookmarks, open those up, and then all of a sudden I'm back to having loads and loads of tabs open. Seriously, I'm like a tab addict. I need help.
- drcross 10y ago
  It would be great if browsers had an option to only allow one instance of a certain website. Half my problem is opening multiple tabs of gmail, whatsapp and facebook, for example, when i'm only actually looking for one instance of them.
  - mstade 10y ago
    Pinnes tabs solve that, actually. Whenever I hit a Facebook link or whatever it just switches to and navigates the Facebook tab to the URL. This is an awesome feature and probably singelhandedly responsible for cutting my tab count by the tens anyway. Still not enough, but definitely a step in the right direction.
    - drcross 10y ago
      Do you mean pinned tabs? It doesn't switch to the existing tab for me on chrome with osx. In what environment does this work because I'm very interested in it.
      - mstade 10y ago
        Oh sorry, I meant in Safari. Pinned tabs in Chrome was the killer feature that kept me around. When Safari finally got them I switched in a heart beat and haven't looked back since. (Other than for dev.)
kentt 10y ago
I manage 100 tabs and use vimium to search through them. I like this workflow and it's productive. I could close them and manage a bunch of bookmarks, but I find this is better for me.

dr_zoidberg 10y ago

I do almost the same as you, but with Firefox under Windows. A year ago I had to switch to the beta channel because the memory leaks in the "satble" version would crash it on restart (I have it configured to reload the previous session). A few months later problems began with beta version. Things got nasty when they tried the multiprocess architecture (which luckily has disappeared for good). Now (v 47) they've found a sweet spot. I have also slightly modified my usage patterns to mitigate the problem: * I would open one "main page" (HN, for example) and keep that open, refreshing and loading tabs in that window related to news, discussions, posts, etc. I'd never close this tab/window. -> (what I suspect) this would cause FF to keep hundreds (thousands?) of URLs and state in memory to respond to the Shift+T (reopen tab) command. * I now close the "main window" more often, and thus keep this behaviour at bay. This alone must be the one thing that impacted the browsers stability. * I try to keep less than 6 windows open at the same time (one with my email accounts, facebook main page, etc, another one for reddit/HN, and then specific windows for different topics). I haven't had to modify my habits any further fortunately. But I did use to have 20+ windows with ~20 tabs each in average.