How is that embarrassing? I have literally 639 tabs right now, across 39 windows. Just live your life as you see fit.
My god
I usually clear mine out when I get over 150 or so. My workflow absolutely doesn’t work on Chrome, but Firefox seems to handle it fine.
…why?
Reposting a comment I wrote in another thread that explains it:
Bookmarks are for things I’ll need to reference again and again in the coming years. I do keep a tightly-curated bookmark collection, I just don’t want it clogged up with a bunch of stuff I can’t foresee needing in the long term.
Tabs are for things I’m working on right now and don’t need bookmarking for the long term. And, for what it’s worth, most of the browser windows are custom-titled, so the windows themselves are a lot like bookmark folders, while the tabs are like temporary bookmarks.
Plus, the ability to search through tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+A means that it ends up being faster to search through my tabs than my bookmarks, without using the mouse. ex: Ctrl+Shift+A, Type needed page, up/down arrows if needed, then hit enter to move to the tab. With Ctrl+Shift+O, you don’t get the same ease of scrolling the results without tabbing through a bunch of junk first.
There are other reasons, including neurological ones surely, but those are my primary justifications.
In Firefox Ctl+T opens a new tab, "% " will search your open tabs.
You caught me. I still daily drive Chrome. I am an on-again off-again Firefox user and have been for nearly 2 decades.
That said, I appreciate that input. I’ve been working on switching over to using Firefox as my daily driver, but it’s going to take some time for me to fully transition, unless you know of an extension or script that can migrate all my chrome tabs over to Firefox. I’m curious to see if it can handle my full browsing habits, now that they’ve evolved into what most would consider “tab hoarder” behavior.
No shame, we all do what we do. Keep doing what works for you.
I’m not sure if One Tab will work for you, but it’s worth a shot if you want to switch.
Typically FF will make background tabs sleep after a time, to reclaim resources.
How much memory does your computer have?
32gb. The browser is using about 11.2gb of ram at the moment, but I haven’t restarted the browser or the computer in about a week. After a browser restart it’s usually only using 5~6gb, though that steadily climbs as I reactivate hibernated tabs.
Reposting from a previous comment I’ve made about this topic:
Bookmarks are for things I’ll need to reference again and again in the coming years. I do keep a tightly-curated bookmark collection, I just don’t want it clogged up with a bunch of stuff I can’t foresee needing in the long term.
Tabs are for things I’m working on right now and don’t need bookmarking for the long term. And, for what it’s worth, most of the browser windows are custom-titled, so the windows themselves are a lot like bookmark folders, while the tabs are like temporary bookmarks.
Plus, the ability to search through tabs by hitting Ctrl+Shift+A means that it ends up being faster to search through my tabs than my bookmarks, without using the mouse. ex: Ctrl+Shift+A, Type needed page, up/down arrows if needed, then hit enter to move to the tab. With Ctrl+Shift+O, you don’t get the same ease of scrolling the results without tabbing through a bunch of junk first.
There are other reasons, including neurological ones surely, but those are my primary justifications.
Tab hoarding is just poor man’s bookmarks.
Oh wait, you’re on Gelbooru. Nevermind, I get it.
Oh dear. I regret.
NSFW warning for anyone who doesn’t understand this comment.
For *booru users who curate and hoard great stuff, a great addon is Bazzacuda Image Saver Plus. Thank me later.
Do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior Hydrus?
Nah, I’d let other professional channers talk about it.
Tree Style Tabs makes this much better. Horizontal tabs don’t really work for >10 tabs. Vertical tabs are the only way to live.
Tried it and was disappointed that it was an additional thing that doesn’t hide the default tab bar when enabled. Never ended up using it because of that, plus unreadable tabs is not a daily thing for me.
The trick is to use custom CSS to hide the default tab bar.
Or Firefox could add native support for both orientations, and tab grouping.
Try Sidebery instead.
Gotta check out Sidebery. It’s a big upgrade from TST
TST works better with STG, and that is a huge plus for me.
Sidebery provides this functionality as well. Don’t get me wrong. If you like TST and STG, then enjoy!
WTF is STG?
I find Edges grouped tabs well implemented, not sure why Firefox doesnt move this way natively?
As to 14 tabs, I’d have 50 or more
Firefox had tab grouping much earlier than most browsers, but they removed it because reasons…
“Close all tabs” and bookmarks are also your friends.
Yes, book burning is mental hygiene
specially on Android where I manage to open new tabs on accident
If they made bookmarks that would update as you navigate, yes. Until then, no, they’re not a substitute for tabs.
You mean history?
You’re almost there. Imagine a thing that was like a bookmark but also had its own individual history, and also kept track of where you currently are in that history.
Is their anything that implements this?
Yes, I think they’re calling them “tabs”.
My browser has tabs.
I think that’s what the history is for…
Not at all the same thing. For one, you can open a history entry and then navigate back from that to the page you came from to that page - which there may be several. Tabs preserve per-tab history which makes it superior in many ways to both history and bookmarks.
fair point but in practice, I don’t really see it being useful very often… You could write an extension to implement that feature so that tabs dont crowd your space…
I mean, do whatever works for you, but that sounds kinda unnecessary when you can just use an already existing feature - tabs.
I do use tab, but they are kind of a problem too… I usually have 20+ tabs opened and many of them I never revisit.
I use multiple windows for multiple purposes. When I’m done with one of the windows, I shut it down. I find it to be a decent organisational method, although I still end up with about 20ish tabs regularly
I was recently forced to start my tabs from scratch again because I closed my main Firefox window while I had a private browsing window open. I finally adopted simple tab groups at home (been using it for work for a while) and was able to restore a bunch from history. But it’s annoying that Firefox just overwrites/discards your tabs if there’s another window open, especially a private browsing one where it’s not saving anything anyways.
Ctrl + shift + n to get back that window you closed with all your tabs :D
It might be too late now but for the future. Has saved me multiple times
Oh nice, thanks! I’m sure it will happen again at some point!
Y’all have terrible tab hygiene. I have 0 tabs 99% of the time, phone and desktop. Need something for later? Write it down. Once you’re past so many tabs, you’ll never look at it again.
It’s like people forgot there is a bookmark feature in most browsers.
Sometimes I open a suggested video on YouTube in a new tab to watch later. That tab sometimes stays for a few days. Every now and then I have to remind myself that there is a a “watch later” feature on YouTube lol
100’s of open tabs… And 100’s of bookmarks.
It’s like that for me on Android.
Searching and multi-selecting bookmarks is not available on fenix, so will have to open or organise them individually. Or will have to use sync and organise them on desktop.So, it’s a mix of tabs n bookmarks for me.
Have around 400+ tabs now, most are in the inactive section tho. Slowly working on them.
That’s not too many.
Before it broke, I had 58 tabs open on my phone, currently I have only 19. Although on desktop I generally don’t cross 10.
But my aunt surpassed everything.
Her Chrome (Android) doesn’t even show a number anymore. It’s just “:D” -
On Firefox Android after ~100 tabs the amount is replaced with ∞.
On mine it is permanently ∞.
Mine is like that lol
No shame in that. My phone’s at 305 tabs. I’ll look random things up throughout the day and sometimes I’ll find a longer article that I’d like to read later. But I hate reading on my phone. So it just hangs out until my next tab purge, which is perhaps a yearly event.
That’s a lot. I sometimes get naughty and open 6
got really crazy and had like ten open yesterday 😬
I don’t understand why people feel this way.
I have a lot of interests and things I do, if I see something I like online, I keep the tab open. This way, I’ve accumulated a lot of tabs, I’ve allocated a small amount of time in my daily activites just before sleeping in which I chip away at different tabs. That way I learn new things daily and get to close a lot of tabs. I can say I have over a thousand open tabs.
That said, I have a lot of browsers. I can literally say I collect browsers, but they have to be Foss or non-chromium. On my linux install, I have 12 browsers, I generally use or have open tabs in 8 of them, the rest I use from time to time. On my previous arch-install, I had over 15. On my lineageOS, I also have 12 and I’m still getting more from F-droid. I use around 6 on here.
Like I said, I group my tabs by interests, i.e tech, education and open new article depending on the topic in each tab. I use LinkSheet on android and Junction on linux. If I like a tab and want to keep it around, I use Native Alpha on android and Tangram on linux to create web apps for them. I open and save wikipedia articles on the Wikipedia apps on both OS’s.
🤯
I’d like to tell you that I can have 500+ tabs open in a few hours long session. You are way saner than me.
Vertical tabs when?
Those G’s are what you should be embarrassed about, not the amount of tabs. ◉‿◉
Its the G force, nothing to be embarrassed about. People have far worse kinks that are also real.
How do YOU know what the G’s mean, boo?
Stare into the abyss long enough and the evil god of knowledge tells you things.
that’s a christmas tree from above, and no amount of tentacles will convince me otherwise.
One of my friends is the worse tab hoarder I’ve ever seen.
Dude even had a script on his PC to actively backup his tabs for the inevitable moment his browser or PC would crash
I know someone’s gonna say ‘doesn’t Firefox backup tabs automatically in the event of a crash anyway?’ and you’d be correct
But ONE TIME it didn’t and left my buddy distraught which is why he has multiple fail-safes now.
Dude even had a script on his PC to actively backup his tabs for the inevitable moment his browser or PC would crash
Hey, Simple Tab Groups do this for me!
Few feelings are more freeing than closing basically all of them down. Usually I don’t even miss them, essentially all upside.
