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WHAT? doesn't every developer have like 50+ tabs open?

by abledon 4y ago

ramesh31 4y ago
It's just doing the thing Safari has done forever. Taking a snapshot of idle tabs and reloading on focus.
- whstl 4y ago
  Does Safari freeze/reloads pages? As far as I can tell, at least to me it just slows down Javascript execution but keeps them open, to the point it messes up with some websites, like this: https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/ https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/ . I never "caught" it reloading pages like the old Chrome Sleeping Tabs extension did. Or do you mean Safari for iOS? I'm thinking of macOS Safari here.
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saghm 4y ago
I assume this is rhetorical, but in case it's not: I don't think I've ever had more than 10-15 tabs open at a time, and even that is pretty rare for me. I generally have maybe five or six, and that's counting pinned tabs like Slack if I'm on my work computer or Spotify if I'm on my personal computer. I've never found it useful to have so many tabs that I'd need to use some sort of search functionality to actually find the one I'm looking for because I can already do that with my browser history without needing to make the half dozen tabs I'm actively using impossible to scan visually. I'm sure my preferred way of working seems as bizarre to some people as having dozens of tabs open at once does to me, but...that's exactly my point; no workflow, including having 50+ tabs open, is going to be universal.
marcosdumay 4y ago
Use the bookmarks, Luke. Really, no, not every developer has 50+ tabs open. And it is very easy to avoid having them without losing anything if you want. Life gets much simpler when you can just alternate between every active thing on your current desktop area.
- paulpauper 4y ago
  bookmarks are vastly inferior to having the tabs open. state data can change when reloading it. I have so many tabs, I have a second computer just for the tabs, which I keep running with all the tabs. For extra measures, they are bookmarked too, but I want them open so I can refer to them. It's like having a library.
  - herewulf 4y ago
    I hear you. In 2016 I supported my tabs with a workstation with 32 GB of RAM. Then in 2020 I bumped that up to 64 GB.
  - WastingMyTime89 4y ago
    Why do you keep reference material in your browser where it can change, be lost, is hard to find again and use a ton of ressources? I think the most tab I ever had open at the same times was 10 when cross referencing something through a ton of tickets and a secondary system and that was already a pain.
- RHSeeger 4y ago
  > And it is very easy to avoid having them without losing anything if you want It wouldn't be for me. I tend to keep hundreds of tabs open for various reasons. And when I reboot and Chrome screws up reloading my session, it's super frustrating. Do I _need_ those tabs open? No. Does having them open save me a 5-10 seconds a hundred times a day? Sure does.
neogodless 4y ago
During certain troubleshooting scenarios, I'll end up with a few dozen tabs open. The last one to be opened happens to be tied to the solution, and I realize there was never any reason to leave the previous 33 tabs open (except perhaps as a checklist of solutions I'd already eliminated...)

WHAT? doesn't every developer have like 50+ tabs open?

ramesh31 4y ago

It's just doing the thing Safari has done forever. Taking a snapshot of idle tabs and reloading on focus.

whstl 4y ago
Does Safari freeze/reloads pages? As far as I can tell, at least to me it just slows down Javascript execution but keeps them open, to the point it messes up with some websites, like this: https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/ https://www.vitling.xyz/toys/acid-banger/ . I never "caught" it reloading pages like the old Chrome Sleeping Tabs extension did. Or do you mean Safari for iOS? I'm thinking of macOS Safari here.
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saghm 4y ago

I assume this is rhetorical, but in case it's not: I don't think I've ever had more than 10-15 tabs open at a time, and even that is pretty rare for me. I generally have maybe five or six, and that's counting pinned tabs like Slack if I'm on my work computer or Spotify if I'm on my personal computer. I've never found it useful to have so many tabs that I'd need to use some sort of search functionality to actually find the one I'm looking for because I can already do that with my browser history without needing to make the half dozen tabs I'm actively using impossible to scan visually. I'm sure my preferred way of working seems as bizarre to some people as having dozens of tabs open at once does to me, but...that's exactly my point; no workflow, including having 50+ tabs open, is going to be universal.

marcosdumay 4y ago

Use the bookmarks, Luke. Really, no, not every developer has 50+ tabs open. And it is very easy to avoid having them without losing anything if you want. Life gets much simpler when you can just alternate between every active thing on your current desktop area.

paulpauper 4y ago
bookmarks are vastly inferior to having the tabs open. state data can change when reloading it. I have so many tabs, I have a second computer just for the tabs, which I keep running with all the tabs. For extra measures, they are bookmarked too, but I want them open so I can refer to them. It's like having a library.
- herewulf 4y ago
  I hear you. In 2016 I supported my tabs with a workstation with 32 GB of RAM. Then in 2020 I bumped that up to 64 GB.
- WastingMyTime89 4y ago
  Why do you keep reference material in your browser where it can change, be lost, is hard to find again and use a ton of ressources? I think the most tab I ever had open at the same times was 10 when cross referencing something through a ton of tickets and a secondary system and that was already a pain.
RHSeeger 4y ago
> And it is very easy to avoid having them without losing anything if you want It wouldn't be for me. I tend to keep hundreds of tabs open for various reasons. And when I reboot and Chrome screws up reloading my session, it's super frustrating. Do I _need_ those tabs open? No. Does having them open save me a 5-10 seconds a hundred times a day? Sure does.

neogodless 4y ago

During certain troubleshooting scenarios, I'll end up with a few dozen tabs open. The last one to be opened happens to be tied to the solution, and I realize there was never any reason to leave the previous 33 tabs open (except perhaps as a checklist of solutions I'd already eliminated...)