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Just curious: what kind of workflow results in having over 1000 tabs open? (Oldschool Unix hobbyist here, so I always feel like drowning when I'm nearing 20+ ta

by marttt 3y ago

Just curious: what kind of workflow results in having over 1000 tabs open? (Oldschool Unix hobbyist here, so I always feel like drowning when I'm nearing 20+ tabs. :)

sudobash1 3y ago
Not OP, but opening almost every link as a new tab, and keeping old tabs around because you don't have a great bookmark organization system. I am trying to break myself of these habits, but they do have some benefits. For instance when I do a web search on a complex topic, I often scan the results, opening the most promising looking results as tabs. Then I look through the tabs comparing them. The trouble is I never remember to close them when the task is done.
- jaredhallen 3y ago
  I'm not a 1000+ tabbed, but I can relate to what you're describing. I'd add that it seems like it's getting harder all the time to find what you're looking for with the current state of web search, so when you come across a good page you don't want to "lose" it. Sure you could bookmark it, but you probably won't want it forever, just until you're done with whatever you were working on that prompted you to search for it in the first place. So bookmarking just moves the mess from the tab bar to the bookmark folder. Kind of like cleaning your room by stuffing all the mess in your closet.
eviks 3y ago
That feeling completely disappeared with workspaces in Vivaldi (though for me the discomfort started with maybe around twice as many, vertical layout with more smaller tab height helped)
drivers99 3y ago
For work: Mainly just not having a workflow of going back to close them. So it's just previous work like a view of some logs, a merge request, a link to a file in a repo, a monitoring dashboard, an alert in a monitoring system, etc. In Chrome, I do end up closing them eventually because there's no more space to work. For personal: it's more like a bookmark, but don't often review them rather than open a new tab to research whatever I'm currently curious about.

by marttt 3y ago

Just curious: what kind of workflow results in having over 1000 tabs open? (Oldschool Unix hobbyist here, so I always feel like drowning when I'm nearing 20+ tabs. :)

sudobash1 3y ago

Not OP, but opening almost every link as a new tab, and keeping old tabs around because you don't have a great bookmark organization system. I am trying to break myself of these habits, but they do have some benefits. For instance when I do a web search on a complex topic, I often scan the results, opening the most promising looking results as tabs. Then I look through the tabs comparing them. The trouble is I never remember to close them when the task is done.

jaredhallen 3y ago
I'm not a 1000+ tabbed, but I can relate to what you're describing. I'd add that it seems like it's getting harder all the time to find what you're looking for with the current state of web search, so when you come across a good page you don't want to "lose" it. Sure you could bookmark it, but you probably won't want it forever, just until you're done with whatever you were working on that prompted you to search for it in the first place. So bookmarking just moves the mess from the tab bar to the bookmark folder. Kind of like cleaning your room by stuffing all the mess in your closet.

eviks 3y ago

That feeling completely disappeared with workspaces in Vivaldi (though for me the discomfort started with maybe around twice as many, vertical layout with more smaller tab height helped)

drivers99 3y ago

For work: Mainly just not having a workflow of going back to close them. So it's just previous work like a view of some logs, a merge request, a link to a file in a repo, a monitoring dashboard, an alert in a monitoring system, etc. In Chrome, I do end up closing them eventually because there's no more space to work. For personal: it's more like a bookmark, but don't often review them rather than open a new tab to research whatever I'm currently curious about.