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With autocomplete, typing can be faster than a bookmark when all you have to do is type "h" then press down and ok.
by rms 17y ago
With autocomplete, typing can be faster than a bookmark when all you have to do is type "h" then press down and ok.
- simonsarris 17y agoAmusingly, all I do is type "n" and then press enter, and Google Chrome takes me here using the normal address.
- apotheon 17y agoI typically get as far as "new", but then, I routinely have more than a hundred tabs open in Firefox. If Chrom(e|ium) worked on FreeBSD, I'd probably be using that instead.
- Pistos2 17y agoI like leaving things open, but I'm really curious how having over 30 tabs is an improved user experience. The most common places I visit are either always etched in the address bar history, and so are reachable in a few keystrokes, or have outright aliases, so I can type a keyword and it transforms into a URL. Everything else is just a handful of keystrokes away, via Selfmarks (my bookmarks-on-the-internet service). How can you navigate among your tabs with any semblance of ease or speed?
- jey 17y agoYeah, I keep hearing of people (esp. power users) using web browsers with hundreds of tabs open, and I don't understand why they need so many, nor how it remains manageable/useful/navigable. When I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. Whatever the reason is, it's probably some use case(s) that could be better handled by the browser or an extension. Are they using all the tabs as a queue of stuff to read? That's a problem I run into, and I deal with it by keeping a vim buffer open with a list of URLs.
- biotech 17y agoWhen I end up with > 25 tabs, it usually just means I need to run a garbage collection cycle. I agree in theory; that many tabs are pretty difficult to manage. Unfortunately, a garbage collection cycle forces me to focus on garbage collecting (since I will usually have several important sites open among the trash), breaking my concentration on the research. It ends up being more productive to leave them open for a while, until they reach some threshold where I have to do too much work to find the important open sites among the garbage. That point for me is definitely more than 25 but also less than 100. I assume that it's different for different people.
- jacquesm 17y agoI use my browser as my 'auxiliary memory', if I don't have time to read something right away I just open a tab and leave it until I have time. On a typical day this means that in the morning I start with the session I left the evening before, say 25 tabs or so (usually project + whatever documentation I need for it), then as the day goes by the number of open tabs slowly increases. By the evening it probably is at its peak somewhere between 50 and 70 or so, then before I go to bed I catch up on my reading and close anything that doesn't have to do with work ready for the next cycle.
- apotheon 17y agoI write professionally, and I often have close to a dozen tabs open for research toward the completion of a single article.
- sh1mmer 17y agoExactly, the same happens for me "n" is for Hacker News in my Firefox vunderbar.
- chaosprophet 17y agoI just type "Hacker news" into the awesomebar of Firefox and Google does the rest.
- sharjeel 17y agoseems more like a Chuck Norris fact
- Dobbs 17y agoFor vimperator users you can use marks: 'M<a-z>' where <a-z> is the letter you want, to set the mark. Then: 'go<a-z>' to open in the current tab. 'gn<a-z>' for a new tab.