I, personally, can’t handle having more than like 6 tabs open at a time (not including pinned tabs, which I can have 1 or 2 of at a time on top of that). It gets to where I actively close tabs to try to get my tab number closer to like 2 - 4, which is usually where i’m comfortable with.
As somebody with about 4000 open tabs, you and I have the opposite problem.
I just pull the tab into a new window when there’s too many. Unfortunately, that leads to this after a few hours:
It took me a couple seconds to realize that’s your task bar, not browser tabs lmao.
oh god…that makes it even worse. 🙈
oh god no
This image is literally my nightmare, only slightly better than being so full that all you can see are the icons.
I tab hoard to the point to where I hit my swap sometimes. Though tab hoarding is pretty common I think.
I forget to close them, get to like 40, can’t even read what they say cuz they’re so small, leave Ctrl W pressed till I have like 2 tabs, start again. Forget, bulk delete, forget, bulk delete. I used to hoard them but I since learned there’s nothimg important i can’t find from either history, google, memory or messages i send to save information on chats.
Relative to my friends, I keep a lot of tabs open. But in this little corner of the internet filled with power users, I’m guessing I’m in good company and if anything, probably on the low side.
One of my friends works in a research-related industry, so I have this odd suspicion she’s slowly turning to the dark side as well. :)
I tab hoard too much, I no longer count my tabs, instead I count windows. Keeping it under 100 windows is a struggle. Each window is ~10-20+ tabs.
It’s mostly YT, Rddit, and Pixiv. I keep open stuff I want to watch/read later but instead I forget. Only time I remember is when I go to close it causing me to just keep it longer.
I often use middle-mouse-click to open new tabs, I have macros setup on my mouse for
ctrl+tab,ctrl+shift+tab,ctrl+f4; aka Next tab, Prev Tab, Close Tab. This just makes browsing simpler and one-handed easier.One handed easier you say? 🤨 😏
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2k tabs on work computer, another 3k on my personal notebook. I quite literally have tabs from 2 years ago and refuse to close them. And at least 10 pinned tabs in each
Do you just never turn your computer off? Or do you have it set to reopen all your old tabs with each restart?
I set it to reopen everything, it feels a bit disorienting to not know where I was at previously, and all the other tabs makes it easier to figure it out. It’s a mess, but it works
How much ram does that take up? I imagine it’d be not insignificant, especially if you’re using a chromium browser.
About 6 gigs of ram, I run Firefox with AutoTabDiscard, so older tabs are written to disk after a while and loaded up again when opened
That’s cool! I’ve seen that addon around, but never really knew what it did.
Same haha. Even if I really want to hoard all the tab, I change my mind 10 second later thinking “yeah I don’t need this shit anymore” keeping it to 3 max.
As for weird habit, I think I constantly closing and making new tab for almost every query like, new tab > open link > read > close > new tab
I rigorously prune all my tabs such that I only have a couple freestanding pinned tabs, and everything else in a group or whatever it’s called.
I think my limit is around 8-10 tabs, basically if I start having a hard time seeing the names of tabs I start pruning them.
Sometimes I like to go crazy wiki diving and middle clicking every link I think is interesting. I use tree style tabs plugin to help organize and it also makes it very easy to close the parent wiki tab to mass close when I’m done.
Downside is once in a rare moon my all of my plugins will crash and firefox will refuse to restore previous session
I use tree style tabs plugin to help organize […]
I had no idea this existed. Going to have to look for one now. Would make it so nice to clean up those rabbit holes. Thanks!
6 tabs?! Are you superhuman?
Because I can deal with so little, or because I can deal with so much? Or some other reason?
Because you manage to go through the tabs you open. I have many tabs because I leave a lot of them for later.
I dunno if it’s weird or not, but I like having a menu bar and a separate search box. Fortunately, Firefox still accommodates me.
I actually think this might be weird for like more technologically savvy people, but I think it’s pretty common otherwise. This is all based on speculation.
Considering my first browser was Netscape Navigator, I think it’s just that I’m stuck in the past.
Don’t worry, I’m totally stuck in the past with some things too. Certain things were just better back in the day. Even though I’m hardly old enough to really be saying that sort of thing. xD
I open up walls of tabs, then methodically go through each one, diving into it for anything relevant, then closing as I back out. Although this is probably normal browser habit.
