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Because they have not found the bookmarks feature yet.

by eznzt 6y ago

edeion 6y ago
That brings me to the problem with links as well as with e-books: you don't usually see them. When you have an open tab, you see it all day long until you get rid of it. When you have a printed book, you bump in it on a daily basis (unless you hide it in more books).
- hungryforcodes 6y ago
  Also bookmarks don't save page context. If I'm doing something -- even something simple like scrolling down a page -- and get interrupted, it's just easier to leave it open.
  - superkuh 6y ago
    Yep. Tab history is important. How I got to some page is almost as important as the page itself. I've been using large tab sessions ever since Opera 5 in the early 2000s. Back then I'd have 20-50 tabs or so. These days I have sessions of 500 active tabs and 500 suspended. It's great. I have full text tab search, and since my sessions last years, I know the general location of all important tabs. ALso, since I use a single process brower and NoScript, all those 500+ tabs take under <3 GB of ram. It's matter of taste, but it's no new trend. Tabs, and tab users, have been around for 20 years now.
ortusdux 6y ago
When I have 100 tabs open, 90 of them are one time use pages. I need to compile bits of information from each page, and then I never need those pages again. Why would I use bookmarks? For example, last week I was shopping for a very specific, very expensive ceramic thrust bearing. I had 20+ pages open from 10+ suppliers and documentation sources. I needed those open all week while we decided on which one to buy. This was a minor background task, so I also had 60 other tabs open for my normal work flow. Just because people use a tool differently than you doesn't make them wrong.
gmiller123456 6y ago
It'd be great if someone invented a method of working with bookmarks that worked as easily and seamlessly as tabs. Back in the days of social bookmarks (like del.icio.us) pretty much everyone had a "toread" folder. The main problem is that you have to remember to delete them after reading them. That's not really a problem for good articles you remember reading, but the crap articles you don't remember, or quit reading are easy to forget to delete from the bookmarks. So, you end up reading the same crap articles several times. With a tab, you close the window and you're done. With bookmarks, you have to close the window, go through your bookmarks, find the one that was crap that you have already forgotten and delete it. There's several other advantages to tabs too: Like the fact that they're naturally organized by window based on the task you're doing. You'll see them more often, and thus be reminded more often. They save context, like forwards and back history, and information you may have typed in, or a UI you may have manipulated.

Because they have not found the bookmarks feature yet.

by eznzt 6y ago

Because they have not found the bookmarks feature yet.

That brings me to the problem with links as well as with e-books: you don't usually see them. When you have an open tab, you see it all day long until you get rid of it. When you have a printed book, you bump in it on a daily basis (unless you hide it in more books).

hungryforcodes 6y ago
Also bookmarks don't save page context. If I'm doing something -- even something simple like scrolling down a page -- and get interrupted, it's just easier to leave it open.
- superkuh 6y ago
  Yep. Tab history is important. How I got to some page is almost as important as the page itself. I've been using large tab sessions ever since Opera 5 in the early 2000s. Back then I'd have 20-50 tabs or so. These days I have sessions of 500 active tabs and 500 suspended. It's great. I have full text tab search, and since my sessions last years, I know the general location of all important tabs. ALso, since I use a single process brower and NoScript, all those 500+ tabs take under <3 GB of ram. It's matter of taste, but it's no new trend. Tabs, and tab users, have been around for 20 years now.

ortusdux 6y ago

When I have 100 tabs open, 90 of them are one time use pages. I need to compile bits of information from each page, and then I never need those pages again. Why would I use bookmarks? For example, last week I was shopping for a very specific, very expensive ceramic thrust bearing. I had 20+ pages open from 10+ suppliers and documentation sources. I needed those open all week while we decided on which one to buy. This was a minor background task, so I also had 60 other tabs open for my normal work flow. Just because people use a tool differently than you doesn't make them wrong.

gmiller123456 6y ago

It'd be great if someone invented a method of working with bookmarks that worked as easily and seamlessly as tabs. Back in the days of social bookmarks (like del.icio.us) pretty much everyone had a "toread" folder. The main problem is that you have to remember to delete them after reading them. That's not really a problem for good articles you remember reading, but the crap articles you don't remember, or quit reading are easy to forget to delete from the bookmarks. So, you end up reading the same crap articles several times. With a tab, you close the window and you're done. With bookmarks, you have to close the window, go through your bookmarks, find the one that was crap that you have already forgotten and delete it. There's several other advantages to tabs too: Like the fact that they're naturally organized by window based on the task you're doing. You'll see them more often, and thus be reminded more often. They save context, like forwards and back history, and information you may have typed in, or a UI you may have manipulated.