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Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open? Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend e

Just for my understanding, any special reason to have 100's of tabs open? Meaning: I basically have a mindset which as a programmer would say: "shall I spend effort trying to optimize my app for users that have 200 tabs open? Naaaa, I don't see a usecase for that to happen."

weberc2 7y ago
Optimize for the user who has 100s of tabs open or the user who has 10 tabs but one is Slack.
- zepearl 7y ago
  This is funny - here in Switzerland & Germany I have never, ever heard anybody mentioning "Slack". I read about it the first time when I was reading docs & posts about the chat riot.im/matrix some months ago (maybe in connection with the Matrix "bridges") and from time to time here on HN but I never payed much attention to it.
jacquesm 7y ago
Yes, sure. I do technical due diligence for a living and when researching a particular company every time I come across another interesting link that hasn't changed color yet I open another tab. Then I just keep reading until there are no more tabs open, and no more interesting notes to take. It's part of my workflow (and one of the reasons why the scrapbook add-on is essential to me, another reason I do my work on the older machine).
- zepearl 7y ago
  Oohh, ok, I think that I got it (you keep opening new/unknown links in additional tabs and once you have them all you go through them) - thx.
- sfink 7y ago
  I'm hovering around 250 tabs these days and it's doing fine, but most of those aren't loaded. Sounds like yours would be. You might want to try a tab unloading extension.
- teddyh 7y ago
  > the scrapbook add-on is essential to me I found the ScrapbookQ plugin, which also is able (with some work, admittedly) to import data from the old Scrapbook plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbookq/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbookq/
TeMPOraL 7y ago
An alternative and pretty useful point of view is: optimizing for 100s of tabs essentially creates new use cases that weren't possible before.
baroffoos 7y ago
It happens when you use tabs as bookmarks. The solution is to use bookmarks.
- chii 7y ago
  Using tabs as bookmarks is just so much easier that I find I don't use bookmarks anymore. Perhaps there should be a way to passivate tabs so that they don't take up memory when they are not used for a while.
  - kylek 7y ago
    Wanted to point out that there are a few different firefox addons that allow you to suspend tabs which does unload them. I believe there is at least one with a timer to automatically suspend tabs as well. (sorry can't point out examples now)

weberc2 7y ago

Optimize for the user who has 100s of tabs open or the user who has 10 tabs but one is Slack.

zepearl 7y ago
This is funny - here in Switzerland & Germany I have never, ever heard anybody mentioning "Slack". I read about it the first time when I was reading docs & posts about the chat riot.im/matrix some months ago (maybe in connection with the Matrix "bridges") and from time to time here on HN but I never payed much attention to it.

jacquesm 7y ago

Yes, sure. I do technical due diligence for a living and when researching a particular company every time I come across another interesting link that hasn't changed color yet I open another tab. Then I just keep reading until there are no more tabs open, and no more interesting notes to take. It's part of my workflow (and one of the reasons why the scrapbook add-on is essential to me, another reason I do my work on the older machine).

zepearl 7y ago
Oohh, ok, I think that I got it (you keep opening new/unknown links in additional tabs and once you have them all you go through them) - thx.
sfink 7y ago
I'm hovering around 250 tabs these days and it's doing fine, but most of those aren't loaded. Sounds like yours would be. You might want to try a tab unloading extension.
teddyh 7y ago
> the scrapbook add-on is essential to me I found the ScrapbookQ plugin, which also is able (with some work, admittedly) to import data from the old Scrapbook plugin: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbookq/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scrapbookq/

TeMPOraL 7y ago

An alternative and pretty useful point of view is: optimizing for 100s of tabs essentially creates new use cases that weren't possible before.

baroffoos 7y ago

It happens when you use tabs as bookmarks. The solution is to use bookmarks.

chii 7y ago
Using tabs as bookmarks is just so much easier that I find I don't use bookmarks anymore. Perhaps there should be a way to passivate tabs so that they don't take up memory when they are not used for a while.
- kylek 7y ago
  Wanted to point out that there are a few different firefox addons that allow you to suspend tabs which does unload them. I believe there is at least one with a timer to automatically suspend tabs as well. (sorry can't point out examples now)