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The use of what most HN users would consider an absurd number of tabs is shockingly (to me anyway) common among the non-tech-worker crowd. I'd say about half of
by Arcsech 9y ago
The use of what most HN users would consider an absurd number of tabs is shockingly (to me anyway) common among the non-tech-worker crowd. I'd say about half of my family members that don't work in tech have at least dozens and probably hundreds of tabs open at any given time.
I think it's the sort of thing where this works well enough for the same purpose that other people use a read-later or bookmarking system for, and it's reliable enough that people don't care to switch (or don't know there's an alternative).
It's good that Firefox is trying to adapt to the way people use technology, rather than trying to force people to adapt to how the technology works - I think that's a much faster road to widespread adoption, and it creates more goodwill on the part of their users.
- xbmcuser 9y agoI can understand opening 20-30 tabs but with 100 or so it would take me longer to find the tab then just searching it for in Google or history. I went from Netscape/internet explorer to Firefox then because of the frequent crashes and how slow it was to Chrome. I am to entrenched in the Google eco system to change now so just can hope this will make Chrome cut down on the bloat.
- eitland 9y ago> but with 100 or so it would take me longer to find the tab then just searching it for in Google or history. With FF when you start to type it intelligently suggests tabs you already have open. Perfect for keyboard lovers like me :)
- weaksauce 9y agoI think this is a pretty common practice. I know I have hundreds of tabs open as a temporary bookmark system over many windows(48 windows, 354 tabs right now) ... to the point that I made a simple extension to find what I am looking for visually and have links on the page that focus that window and tab. I find it pretty useful in practice. firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tabist/ chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiogfkaldbfphfdkpggjemaha https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabist/hdjegjggiog... source: https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist https://github.com/fiveNinePlusR/tabist
- seanp2k2 9y agohttps://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfeinjfmenlddahdjdmgpbokiacbbb?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/quick-tabs/jnjfein... and similar are also great. People flip at work when I hit the keyboard shortcut to cut back to the tab I was just on. They look at me like I just did some magic, and they ask about it.
- weaksauce 9y agoThat is pretty neat. I might add a MRU menu like that perhaps. I planned on doing the entire list by age too but haven't gotten around to it yet.