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Recently hit 4000, with ~2000 in a single window. One thing that I think helps is remembering that you (ostensibly) have a browser history. Rather than keeping
by bsanr2 6y ago
Recently hit 4000, with ~2000 in a single window. One thing that I think helps is remembering that you (ostensibly) have a browser history. Rather than keeping every tab you might want to come back to, close the ones you expect to be unchanged later (or that don't currently hold a particular needed state). You can then reopen ones that float up to your consciousness (i.e., the ones that are important) as necessary. Taking this approach made culling 1000 tabs not too difficult. Of course, this would be made much easier with a robust history search function, but good luck with that.
There is also at least a Chrome extension that lets you filter and close tabs by domain (name escapes me).
- dmckeon 6y agoThere is a "Close Similar Tabs" extension for Firefox https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/close-similar-tabs/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/close-similar... Personally, I usually prune a window with many open tabs, usually created after a search for a solution or workaround for a bug, down to the initial search(es) and any useful results, then bookmark any remaining tabs into a folder, in the hope that a future search for the same topic might provoke an auto-suggestion, and in the usually vain hope that I might someday curate all the folders for related topics into a coherent hierarchy.
- dublin 6y agoCongrats, sir, I don't think I've ever exceeded 2400. (I almost always work in one window to reduce the session recovery risk of accidentally closing a window with a bunch of tabs I want to keep.)