There are worse harding habits. Videos, photos, physical items etc.

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How does the speed matter in this case? It’s not like gigabytes of stuff gets read and written all the time.

Sounds reasonable. I do that all the time, but I also close the tabs as soon as I stop caring about them. Do you end up having hundreds of tabs open?

Mobile tabs are a bit different though, because the system manages RAM so aggressively. With computers though, running out of RAM is usually the user’s fault. If a mobile OS runs out of RAM, it just kicks stuff out, like that Lemmy client where you were writing a comment and then decided to check something on wikipedia before posting.

Same thing with tabs too. Those two week old tabs haven’t been active in a long time.

And that’s the reason why some people have 100+ tabs open? Yeah, I guess you can hide pretty much anything in numbers like that. Once the tab bar is completely full and unreadable, who knows what kinds of secrets there could be. Coworkers can walk by and they have no idea what’s just a few tabs away.

That’s understandable. But why keep them in tabs though? Other people here have recommended a variety of different approaches.

More than a few people have also mentioned Raindrop. Completely new to me. Haven’t tried that one yet, but I’m planning to take a closer look.

Even those 500 tabs in mobile Safari?

Forking the path is the real killer feature of websites. You can open the main page, click 4 subpages open, navigate each of them a little bit, compare different parts of the site and so on. It’s not uncommon, that I need to look up some information from one part of the same site when typing information inton some text box. Try that with an app!

There’s that zen browser again. I keep hearing about it, and now I can’t stop myself from trying it out.

I have no reason to assume that my way of doing thins is better than any other. I just know what works for me, and that doesn’t mean some other way should’t work for someone else.

Based on what I’ve seen, most people seem to have a rather small number of tabs open, while a smaller group of people like to do the exact opposite. That’s not a tiny minority though. Maybe something like 10-20% approximately. Since that many people do things in a completely different way, I got curious as to why that is.

LOL, and get back to them some time within the next weeks… or months. Who knows how long it will take. 🤷

I keep bumping into Raindrop all the time, but nobody explained what it is. As if everyone already knows what it is. I didn’t, until I finally took the time to open that site. In a new tab, obviously 😀

Anyway, seems like a pretty neat idea. So, how does that better than using normal bookmarks of your browser?

To some extent, I do that as well. However, in my case, it’s not hundreds of tabs. More like 5 sites that I reference frequently enough to keep them open most of the time. I also have bookmarks for the same sites so I can quickly open them when I need to.

However, what I’m really curious about is the people who have hundreds of tabs open all the time. What kind of workflow is that how does it work?

That’s sort of like the “watch later” feature in YouTube. Hey, wasn’t Firefox Pocket meant to be like that?

I view my tabs as very transient, but I’ve learned that many people consider them much more permanent than that. Some even compare them to the files on your computer, which is mind blowing to me.

However, everything that is out of sight and out of mind will pile up. For example, various work related files, like documents and spreadsheets tend to accumulate over the years. Most of them are just there waiting for that one day when I might need them. If someone secretly deleted 50% of my files, it might take years before I would notice.

But that’s an interesting point about tabs. If you can’t see them, they will pile up. Totally agree with that. However, many people still prefer to keep sites as tabs rather than bookmarks specifically because they can see them all the time.

Interesting. I should look into that. What’s your favorite auto unload extension?

Depends on the taks I’m working on. If it’s a simple tech problem, 10 would be a lot. If it involves comparing various products, specs and prices, hitting 50 is quite normal. The key here is that I always close the tabs as soon as I’m done with that topic.

If it’s something I need to get back to later, it requires a more permanent place than browser tabs.

I can see you have a lot of stuff going on, which naturally results in lots of tabs. That’s basically like using the web for professional purposes.

Comparing prices is one of those cases where I can easily have 20-30 tabs open, sometimes even more. However, once I’ve figured out what I’m going to order, I just close all of them to keep my sanity.

Many other people here have said that tabs act like reminders, and that’s a new approach to me. When I have lots of stuff going on at work, I put them on a long list in OneNote. It’s basically a sortable table that allows me to prioritize things, add additional information and mark tasks as complete. If I didn’t do that, life would feel very overwhelming. I think having lots of tabs could also result in similar discomfort, but obviously many people don’t feel that way.

All 500 of them?