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I don't understand this perspective. It's similar to saying "Surely there's a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nig
by awalton 9y ago
I don't understand this perspective. It's similar to saying "Surely there's a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nightmare."
It's not like you're actively monitoring every tab at once, you just have the knowledge ready to go and at a finger's whim. You use extensions like Tab Hunter to jump directly to the tab you care about.
Yeah, you could do the same with using a bunch of profiles and bookmarks... but then you need to copy your login cookies and such and it just becomes a mess. I've tried many, many other solutions over the years and simply having a huge number of tabs is the one that continues to Just Work.
- zdkl 9y ago> It's similar to saying "Surely there's a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nightmare." No, it's similar to saying "Surely there's a better solution than having 1000 radio/tv channels tuned on at once, waiting for you to decide which one is relevant" Like why not open what you need when you need it rather than squirreling all those "maybes"?
- sillysaurus3 9y agoDifferent people are different. When researching a question without a direct answer, it's more effective for me to open up tabs as I read a page and then search the most likely candidate. Whenever I reach a dead-end I can just switch tabs as opposed to pressing the back button N times. zzalpha's comment sums it up nicely: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14824086 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14824086 I know I'm a power user, but I miss how effective old Chrome was at this.
- meowface 9y agoI'm a chronic tab abuser as well, often with over 100 tabs at once. 1000 tabs still sounds insane to me.
- TheGrassyKnoll 9y agoWell, I'm running 600+ in Firefox for no particular reason. I guess that makes me only 60% insane.
- julian_1 9y agoThe same approach works well for forum discussions. One tab representing the forum, and child-tabs to track the comments section. For instance with HN, tabs provide quick navigatable references back to discussions that are relevant to my interest, and that might contain lead-off liks/references after they have fallen off the front-page.
- mustacheemperor 9y agoI'd compare it more to bringing a stack of books to your table at the library. Just because you could notate the name and position of each and fetch them as needed doesn't mean it's not helpful to have them all handy. I've never personally used that many tabs for research, but vetting sources often requires taking a look at a lot of different links for any given subtopic.
- 123e1daAdfafsdf 9y agoOr that you don't know which tabs will be useful until you open them, and your qualification process is multi-pass.
- rhizome 9y agoIt's not the same as having 1000 TV channels turned on at once.
- vacri 9y agoNo, it's like having 1000 radio/tv channels available at once, which you can tune to any one of in a mere moment.
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- fletchowns 9y agoOk let's say you remember seeing something on a tab but couldn't remember which one it was on. How do you even begin to find that tab? With 1000 files on my file system I have any number of ways of searching not only the filenames, but also the contents of the files, visualizations based on size of the files, etc etc. I don't think it's a good comparison.
- KGIII 9y agoGiven the limits of human memory, I wonder how many of those 1,000 tabs are duplicates?
- jamesrcole 9y agoSo what do you suggest is a better way to find the information, that would end up being less total work for the user? I don't think the person you're replying to was referring so much to implementation details, but rather more to function for the user. What if the browser had better support for finding items that are open in tabs?