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If you have to deal with a lot of task switching, blindly closing browser tabs would be a huge waste of time. You can individually check each tab before closing
by SerLava 10y ago
If you have to deal with a lot of task switching, blindly closing browser tabs would be a huge waste of time. You can individually check each tab before closing the ones you don't need, but that takes time and cognitive load.
So I leave them open until the computer can't handle it.
- k__ 10y agoFinding the right tab is much harder if you got a whole bunch of them. I always close them, most aren't needed for a long time. But if I need stuff I closed I just hit 'reopen closed tab' a few times.
- scholia 10y agoMuch easier in Firefox since you just start typing the name of the site then choose to switch to that tab from the drop-down menu. Or you can pick it off the (down-arrow) drop-down list of your tabs, or just use the mouse-wheel to scroll quickly through all the tab headings.... I typically have 100 or so tabs in Firefox. I did get over 600 once, but that's too many ;-)
- blauditore 10y agoWell, it's quite similar to garbage collection, or disk defragmentation. It comes with some cost but improves performance, so it's all about finding the best trade-off.