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Tab minimalist here... It won't help the others. They just don't pay attention to tabs. It's like a mental blind spot for them... Maybe an outright disorder. Th

Tab minimalist here... It won't help the others. They just don't pay attention to tabs. It's like a mental blind spot for them... Maybe an outright disorder. They just keep opening new tabs every chance they get. I once sat over someone's shoulder and watched them continue to click the same link in a message over and over again to look at a JIRA while we were debugging something. Every time, it just opened up a new tab. And they just didn't care. That was how to open up that bit of info. 10, 20, 30 tabs... They just kept piling up. I almost lost my mind This is a techie, mind you, not some random office worker. It was mind boggling. What Chrome really needs is an auto close feature. Default to like 10 tabs max, with the option to increase for power users. Oldest tabs without any activity get whacked automatically. The world would save gigawatts of power overnight.

jmchuster 6y ago
You'll create an infinite number of tabs if you have the following rules: - if you will open multiple links from a page, keep that tab, and then open each link in a new tab - each tab is a train of thought -- don't overwrite a tab's train of thought, always open a new tab to keep your trains of thought distinct - only close a tab once you know that train of thought is fully complete - don't interrupt your current train of thought just to evaluate if an earlier train of thought is complete (and therefore whether you should then close that "tree" of tabs) AKA garbage collection for your mind, that only allows you to run stop-the-world when no other processes are running
- hawski 6y ago
  That's exactly how it is with me. Also it is often more convenient to open a new tab and search again for something then to find it in one of already opened tabs. It would be perfect if beside Google search results the browser would show tab results (with full FTS) and history results. I would prefer to have it there instead of search bar's completion. Then if tabs would really be just history of opened tabs the browser could do some LRU GC.
  - jmchuster 6y ago
    Firefox location bar searches through your open tabs and it was way too annoying, had to disable it. So I guess I actually missed another rule: - your current train of thought always needs to be in the rightmost tab OR it can be the leftmost tab if you have a current working set with like just 5 tabs the latter of which is what then leads to an infinite number of windows... Which is why on top of the built-in "close all tabs" and "close all tabs to the right", I also installed plugins for "close all other windows" and "close all others tabs and all other windows".

jmchuster 6y ago

You'll create an infinite number of tabs if you have the following rules: - if you will open multiple links from a page, keep that tab, and then open each link in a new tab - each tab is a train of thought -- don't overwrite a tab's train of thought, always open a new tab to keep your trains of thought distinct - only close a tab once you know that train of thought is fully complete - don't interrupt your current train of thought just to evaluate if an earlier train of thought is complete (and therefore whether you should then close that "tree" of tabs) AKA garbage collection for your mind, that only allows you to run stop-the-world when no other processes are running

hawski 6y ago
That's exactly how it is with me. Also it is often more convenient to open a new tab and search again for something then to find it in one of already opened tabs. It would be perfect if beside Google search results the browser would show tab results (with full FTS) and history results. I would prefer to have it there instead of search bar's completion. Then if tabs would really be just history of opened tabs the browser could do some LRU GC.
- jmchuster 6y ago
  Firefox location bar searches through your open tabs and it was way too annoying, had to disable it. So I guess I actually missed another rule: - your current train of thought always needs to be in the rightmost tab OR it can be the leftmost tab if you have a current working set with like just 5 tabs the latter of which is what then leads to an infinite number of windows... Which is why on top of the built-in "close all tabs" and "close all tabs to the right", I also installed plugins for "close all other windows" and "close all others tabs and all other windows".