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This strikes a chord with me. I do the same with the hacker news posts. Every time, I open quite a few tabs with every intention of reading them. However, due t

This strikes a chord with me. I do the same with the hacker news posts. Every time, I open quite a few tabs with every intention of reading them. However, due to time constraints, I don't. Eventually I just "onetab"(firefox addon) them. This fear of missing out on information that might be valuable is troubling me a bit.

dvtv75 9y ago
Much the same here. I have six windows open, while only a few of the tabs are Hacker News, one of them has more than 100 tabs in it and the others have about 40 tabs. That's just on this computer. My laptop has another dozen tabs open. Eventually, Firefox will crash and I will lose all my open tabs when "Restore Last Session" fails on me. Hundreds of PDF documents, about 25 on my reader, dozens of songs in sheet music some as much as half-learned. I have a Commodore 64C, monitor, floppy drive, and a pile of disks, I've used that once. I've two ZX Spectrum machines (one in a dk'tronics keyboard, nonfunctional) and a Spectrum 128, with 50 or so tapes and one of those Microdrives plus some cartridges. My father is the same with DVDs, he has a couple of thousand. The dad of one of my friends has double that. His lounge has a wooden shelf hacked together, that thing stands floor-to-ceiling along one side of the room, wraps around a corner, and is packed solid with DVDs. Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, Monkey, the Goodies, Paint Your Wagon ("Gonna paint that wagon, gonna paint it good, we ain't braggin', we're gonna coat that wood"), the list goes on. To me, my collecting and never doing anything with the items seems almost like a sickness. I still have all my University texts - I justify it to myself by quoting a friend of mine who said "I don't believe in selling textbooks, they might come in handy some day." They won't, most of them are more than a decade old, but I still can't bring myself to get rid of these books that cost me hundreds. It was hard enough dumping those ISA cards that were no use to anybody - and I still have a stack of 500 megabyte IDE drives somewhere.
- wellboy 9y ago
  How do you get any work done. My pretty fast Macbook, 3y old, becomes really slow after only 15 tabs open in 1 window.
  - Kliment 9y ago
    Do you use chrome or something? Firefox is excellent with hundreds and hundreds of tabs (on my 2011 linux machine)
  - dvtv75 9y ago
    Sandy Bridge i7 with 16 gigs and (as Kliment mentioned) Firefox, although I do occasionally have slight slowdowns. Those could be related to my six BOINC threads as the slowdowns are in YouTube.
- otto2 9y ago
  Kudos for 8-bit machines. And Microdrive! I understand your tabs behaviour - I am the same, but once when I come to 90-ish, I start culling session to cut it to more reasonable number.
  - dvtv75 9y ago
    I just wish I had space to set them up permanently. I've had a brief play with the Microdrive, it's a lot faster than the old tape deck. I don't know much about the longevity of the media, though. Now I want to get the Spectrum out for a play, but I expect I'll lie down until the urge passes! Thinking I might do a re-cap on each of the machines, two of the capacitors on the Commodore are a little bulgy. It is a 30something year old machine, though!
gymshoes 9y ago
I send them to onetab too. After a while I do cleanup and most of the tabs that look useless or too late to read, I delete them.

dvtv75 9y ago

Much the same here. I have six windows open, while only a few of the tabs are Hacker News, one of them has more than 100 tabs in it and the others have about 40 tabs. That's just on this computer. My laptop has another dozen tabs open. Eventually, Firefox will crash and I will lose all my open tabs when "Restore Last Session" fails on me. Hundreds of PDF documents, about 25 on my reader, dozens of songs in sheet music some as much as half-learned. I have a Commodore 64C, monitor, floppy drive, and a pile of disks, I've used that once. I've two ZX Spectrum machines (one in a dk'tronics keyboard, nonfunctional) and a Spectrum 128, with 50 or so tapes and one of those Microdrives plus some cartridges. My father is the same with DVDs, he has a couple of thousand. The dad of one of my friends has double that. His lounge has a wooden shelf hacked together, that thing stands floor-to-ceiling along one side of the room, wraps around a corner, and is packed solid with DVDs. Babylon 5, Red Dwarf, Monkey, the Goodies, Paint Your Wagon ("Gonna paint that wagon, gonna paint it good, we ain't braggin', we're gonna coat that wood"), the list goes on. To me, my collecting and never doing anything with the items seems almost like a sickness. I still have all my University texts - I justify it to myself by quoting a friend of mine who said "I don't believe in selling textbooks, they might come in handy some day." They won't, most of them are more than a decade old, but I still can't bring myself to get rid of these books that cost me hundreds. It was hard enough dumping those ISA cards that were no use to anybody - and I still have a stack of 500 megabyte IDE drives somewhere.

wellboy 9y ago
How do you get any work done. My pretty fast Macbook, 3y old, becomes really slow after only 15 tabs open in 1 window.
- Kliment 9y ago
  Do you use chrome or something? Firefox is excellent with hundreds and hundreds of tabs (on my 2011 linux machine)
- dvtv75 9y ago
  Sandy Bridge i7 with 16 gigs and (as Kliment mentioned) Firefox, although I do occasionally have slight slowdowns. Those could be related to my six BOINC threads as the slowdowns are in YouTube.
otto2 9y ago
Kudos for 8-bit machines. And Microdrive! I understand your tabs behaviour - I am the same, but once when I come to 90-ish, I start culling session to cut it to more reasonable number.
- dvtv75 9y ago
  I just wish I had space to set them up permanently. I've had a brief play with the Microdrive, it's a lot faster than the old tape deck. I don't know much about the longevity of the media, though. Now I want to get the Spectrum out for a play, but I expect I'll lie down until the urge passes! Thinking I might do a re-cap on each of the machines, two of the capacitors on the Commodore are a little bulgy. It is a 30something year old machine, though!

gymshoes 9y ago

I send them to onetab too. After a while I do cleanup and most of the tabs that look useless or too late to read, I delete them.