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I'm always curious about the use case of having so many open tabs. Is there some context you work in where so many tabs are needed? Are you able to find already

I'm always curious about the use case of having so many open tabs. Is there some context you work in where so many tabs are needed? Are you able to find already open tabs, or do you just end up with 50 hacker news tabs because you just open new ones? Do you actually look at each tab, or do you open in the background and never load them? Are you using extensions to make tabs management easier, like tree style tabs? Once I get past 40 or so I purge old tabs because it makes it hard to find others I'm actively using. Besides, opening a tab again isn't a huge burden.

csydas 4y ago
I questioned it also but I guess tabs have become the replacement for bookmarks. AFAIk both chrome and Firefox have a search function specifically for open tabs so for some it's easier to track and store sites that way, especially since the browser can handle it well enough. It's not my preference as I like having a clean browser window; too many tabs is distracting and it's harder for me to contextualize what work I'm focusing on (windows + tabs for tasks is my preference), but I can see how it works for some.
prox 4y ago
Yeah, using is 40 tabs is weird to me. Here is my strategy, just have current tabs open that are relevant for my computing session. When I need something else that I visited, I use the history shortcut, search for the word (usually its in the title) and I got the info I need. Same with bookmarks which I usually tag. So many tabs just seems redundant I feel.
pivo 4y ago
> Are you able to find already open tabs Yes https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefo... This search also returns results for tabs open in Firefox on other devices. Opening the tab again isn't hard if you can remember what that tab was to begin with.
hombre_fatal 4y ago
Tabs are just more concrete than bookmarks. Tabs aren't things I thought I would want to revisit in the future that I went out of my way to save to a list of such things that I will never visit again. Rather, tabs are even more useful than that: things I was actually doing adjacent to the thing I was doing right next to it. There's a spatial element to it. Nothing compares to tabs. Especially not browser history which is one long list of urls I once visited, who cares. Tabs are a list of urls I settled on.
- formerly_proven 4y ago
  Yep, by using multiple windows (one per project/topic) I get a nice spatial relationship between tabs and they're just as easy to search as bookmarks.

csydas 4y ago

I questioned it also but I guess tabs have become the replacement for bookmarks. AFAIk both chrome and Firefox have a search function specifically for open tabs so for some it's easier to track and store sites that way, especially since the browser can handle it well enough. It's not my preference as I like having a clean browser window; too many tabs is distracting and it's harder for me to contextualize what work I'm focusing on (windows + tabs for tasks is my preference), but I can see how it works for some.

prox 4y ago

Yeah, using is 40 tabs is weird to me. Here is my strategy, just have current tabs open that are relevant for my computing session. When I need something else that I visited, I use the history shortcut, search for the word (usually its in the title) and I got the info I need. Same with bookmarks which I usually tag. So many tabs just seems redundant I feel.

pivo 4y ago

> Are you able to find already open tabs Yes https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefox https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-open-tabs-firefo... This search also returns results for tabs open in Firefox on other devices. Opening the tab again isn't hard if you can remember what that tab was to begin with.

hombre_fatal 4y ago

Tabs are just more concrete than bookmarks. Tabs aren't things I thought I would want to revisit in the future that I went out of my way to save to a list of such things that I will never visit again. Rather, tabs are even more useful than that: things I was actually doing adjacent to the thing I was doing right next to it. There's a spatial element to it. Nothing compares to tabs. Especially not browser history which is one long list of urls I once visited, who cares. Tabs are a list of urls I settled on.

formerly_proven 4y ago
Yep, by using multiple windows (one per project/topic) I get a nice spatial relationship between tabs and they're just as easy to search as bookmarks.