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There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have multiple tabs open that doesn't really have to do with "hoarding". For games, I often have a bunch of wiki tabs
by Night_Thastus 3y ago
There are plenty of legitimate reasons to have multiple tabs open that doesn't really have to do with "hoarding".
For games, I often have a bunch of wiki tabs open at the same time.
- grogenaut 3y agoFor me I just type titles or word back into the browser bar and Firefox searches history. How are you searching/navigating to find the right tab of several hundred to go back to that tab?
- SomeHacker44 3y agoToo many sites have useless titles, or URLs that if you go back to you don't get to the same state you had when you closed the window. So, I find that history is for the most part useless. Sometimes it works - but not reliably.
- sundarurfriend 3y agoVimium - press shift-T - search among all page titles and URLs of open tabs.
- grogenaut 3y agoWhy is that better than searching history or bookmarks?
- sundarurfriend 3y agoBookmarks are long-term useful things to keep saved, and don't serve the same purpose as these open tabs. As for history, imagine you're researching a topic and have gone through fifteen search results, decided three of them were relevant, and closed the others. Your history is polluted with all fifteen, whereas this tab search will directly return you these most relevant pages only.
- beltsazar 3y agoYou can also search open tabs in the address bar: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplete-firefox#w_changing-results-on-the-fly https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet... I hardly use it, though, because I usually have < 100 open tabs, not thousands like others have. I identify tabs by their tree structures (parents, children, siblings tabs) and the prefixes of the titles, whose lengths don't depend on how many tabs opened, because the tabs are arranged vertically.
- manuelmoreale 3y agoA bunch is reasonable but I’ve seen people here on HN claim to have multiple windows with thousand of tabs on them. That is beyond comprehension for me but if it works for them that’s awesome.
- Night_Thastus 3y agoOh, yeah thousands seems like a lot. But I'm not sure, maybe there's a workflow where that makes sense.
- TremendousJudge 3y agoYou end up using them as bookmarks of some sort, especially with the search bar doubling as tab search
- entropicdrifter 3y agoI'm convinced that a significant proportion of people today don't use bookmarks and have never leveraged their power because they grew up with tabs and never bothered to explore their other options for organizing websites. You can save all of the tabs of your current session as a bookmark folder in one fell swoop! Your research tabs can be all saved together and opened as a group! Your gift ideas that you won't close because you don't want to forget about them can be saved in a folder named gift ideas so the next time you need them you have them, without the cost of using up your extra RAM and CPU cycles!
- Night_Thastus 3y agoOn modern browsers, don't unused/old tabs take up basically no resources? I remember both Chrome and FF making a big deal over that point years ago.
- seba_dos1 3y agoThere were extensions for it more than a decade ago already, but these days it is indeed the regular out-of-box behavior (though Chrome got it only a few months ago IIRC).