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>> "Chrome with 300 tabs open." Why? Genuinely curious why anyone would ever need that many tabs open. Why can't you use bookmarks/reading list? It doesn't see

>> "Chrome with 300 tabs open." Why? Genuinely curious why anyone would ever need that many tabs open. Why can't you use bookmarks/reading list? It doesn't seem possible that you would be actively using all of those regularly enough to need them all open.

Pxtl 12y ago
It's not that they use them all, just as you work you keep adding more tabs and there's no GC for tabs.
- k-mcgrady 12y ago
  Of course but why not close of bookmark the ones you're done with (i.e. not going to use for the next several hours)?
  - Pxtl 12y ago
    That sounds like work.
  - wyclif 12y ago
    It's not really work IMO, as another commenter claims (assuming he/she wasn't being sarcastic, which is entirely possible). If you have the pinboard.in extension, it's a simple ⌘-D to save.
- oneeyedpigeon 12y ago
  Every now and then I carry out my own manual garbage collection of tabs: iterate through, copy URL of any I don't really need right now, collect the URLs in a text file somewhere. I usually end up losing the text file but no disaster ensues. I'm currently running with 19 tabs open. Any more than that and it becomes too difficult to identify them. Ideally, I try to trim it down to about 10 when I can. How anyone can be even remotely productive with 300 open is beyond me.
  - _deh 12y ago
    I've found Evernote's web clipper to be a good replacement for that same process.
fredley 12y ago
Garbage Collector for tabs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-garbage-collector/pnhaaefbdpppebmmlikhfgpdjggdklln https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tab-garbage-collec...