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I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt
by sva_ 4y ago
I once used Vimium and some bug caused the extension to permanently close my hard-earned ~500 tab collection. So while I feel like I lost a lot, I've never felt so much at peace since either.
- johnhenry 4y agoThat used to be my solution for managing tabs in chrome. Every few months it would just crash, I'd lose all my tab, and I'd think "probably for the best". Now chrome is a lot more stable :/.
- bakuninsbart 4y agoThis causes me some level of anxiety. An important end of day ritual for me is to close every tab I'm not 100% sure I will need the next morning.
- samb1729 4y agoMy approach is to use Firefox Nightly and restart it whenever it prompts me to do so. Keeps me at a low tab count :)
- sodapopcan 4y agoHoly shit... 500 tabs? I thought I was bad about accumulating tabs but had no idea ~500 was even possible. I'm trying to even but I literally can't--You might say "I literally can't even".
- Arelius 4y agoHonestly, I don't know how you all stay so low, I'm down to 1172, and getting it even that low feels like a bit of an accomplishment.
- tyre 4y agoWhat are you doing with these tabs? Are they a reading list? Things like gmail that you could reopen whenever?
- mkl 4y agoTwo things: tabs as bookmarks, and groups/windows of tabs relating to different projects so you can easily pick up where you left off.
- helmholtz 4y agoZen. And MaxTabs. I limit myself to 5 tabs by force. Anything more, it means I'm becoming scatterbrained and need to revisit what I already have opened and think more linearly rather than in a spastic manner. I tried saving tabs for reference material, but I prefer something simpler. I shutdown my PC at the end of the day. I have a dump.txt where every link that might get needed tomorrow gets pasted.
- sodapopcan 4y agoThis is intriguing. Do you happen to have a blog post or similar documentation about your process?
- NERD_ALERT 4y agoI don’t understand what’s so complicated about this. I’ve also never allowed myself to have more than 5-6 tabs at a time because it just seemed reasonable. I’m not sure what I could possibly be doing that requires more tabs. I have an organized bookmark folder structure for things I absolutely need to get back to/visit regularly. I’m using my browser for no more than a couple streams of thought at any given time.
- sodapopcan 4y agoThat's a pretty aggressive and unhelpful response. While your brain might be tuned to perfect tab management, I've worked with very talented people who hang on to tons of tabs (amongst other idiosyncrasies). Some want to change (I deign to consider myself one of these people), others don't and still go on to be productive, awesome developers. You seem to have mastered pure focus which is an amazing, coveted trait, but we don't all have it.
- rottc0dd 4y agoI have once went upto 1674 in Firefox.
- mkl 4y agoI have 7-8000 on one machine, multiple thousands on at least two others. Session Buddy + either Auto Tab Discard or The Marvellous Suspender means I don't lose any even in crashes and it doesn't use too much RAM.
- ambarp2 4y agoAlso my exact setup! Have hundreds of tabs and in between Session Buddy and The Marvellous Suspender, I haven’t lost one yet.
- mrcsno 4y agoI thought Suspender had been taken down due to some change upstream that introduced trackers or something else shady. Great to see it got forked. I’ve been using Auto Tab Discard but it doesn’t feel as effective on diminishing RAM usage. Has that been your experience as well?
- mkl 4y agoThat was The Great Suspender. Marvellous is a fork that seems to work just like the original. I actually have trouble with it with more than ~2000 (3000?) tabs. It gets unstable and slow. Auto Tab Discard doesn't have that problem, but does occasionally disappear and stop suspending tabs until you reload it.
- komali2 4y agoYou successfully closed a vim-UX interfaced program? I'm sorry you lost your tabs but congratulations nonetheless. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-vim https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11828270/how-do-i-exit-v...
- leshenka 4y agoThey've said it's a bug. You'd never close anything was it not for this bug
- mrmr1993 4y agoI think this may have been this issue[0], which was fixed in [1]. Seems like the limit has crept up from 3 to 25 at some point in the last decade-ish, but in theory it should be undoable with 25X (or by mashing X to undo as many x commands as required). [0]: https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/1126 https://github.com/philc/vimium/issues/1126 [1]: https://github.com/philc/vimium/pull/1128 https://github.com/philc/vimium/pull/1128
- epigramx 4y agois this some kind of modern-day hoarding? how would you even find that useful? why don't you use bookmarks for the earliest ones?
- chii 4y agoIt's interesting, because i've asked many people who have massive tab counts this same question, and it seems the overwhelming answer is that bookmarks are harder to manage than tabs. It takes more time to bookmark a link, than it is to open it in a new tab. The positioning of the tab is an indication of approx. when that tab had been opened, and the other tabs near it is likely similar in subject matter, or is related somehow. It acts as a queue to be processed as well. And for a lot of browsers, the auto-preloading means you can have the tab "saved" and you can view it, even if it took long time to load. It's a form of "offline" viewing. If bookmarks can achieve _all_ of the above, without having the need for the user to do anything extra, it would actually replace tabs. But so far, i've not seen anyone switch.
- herewulf 4y agoI'm a "tab hoarder" and you've hit the nail right on the head.
- Izkata 4y ago> The positioning of the tab is an indication of approx. when that tab had been opened, and the other tabs near it is likely similar in subject matter, or is related somehow. Add in tree style tabs and you get this relationship on steroids - new tabs are automatically a child of the source tab, and you can expand/collapse the tree.
- gibspaulding 4y agoThank you for this, it's something I never understood. I have to shut down everything at the end of the day and start from a clean reboot the next or I get overwhelmed. I think it's sort of my way of unloading work stuff from my brain at the end of the day and loading up again at the beginning of the next.
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- reportgunner 4y agoIf you can't remember all of those 500 tabs, did you really need them ?
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- magios 4y agomy solution to beat the tab accumulation problem is to have firefox simply close all tabs, clear browsing and download history, clear form and search history, and clear cache upon the user choosing to close the program. if the browser or computer crashes the tabs and everything else still exist. if a site meets your interests, bookmark it. note that cookies remain but are usually cleared periodically. also you can setup a folder of bookmarks, or a new tab page, that you can open up everyday and check the websites you want.