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how quickly did his or her ram melt?
The point is, it didn’t. Tabs do not take memory space unless you actively interact with them in Firefox.
And yet since switching to firefox last year I’ve had more problems with FF eating memory and the browser slowing down, than I ever with Chrome. (not that I’m switching back)
Interesting Though Chrome is much less of a RAM-hopper nowadays either.
Yeah. It’s pretty good in that regard. It usually hogs a bit, but it’s very good at releasing it if it’s needed elsewhere. FF though, not so much.
I feel like a power user would have a clean and clear bookmark game, not thousand of tabs… How the hell do you even navigate into this mess? I’ve just re-organise my bookmarks and folders, imported them in nextcloud, and I feel like I’m the master of the internet.
With Quick Tabs Ported, you don’t need to look for where tabs are; just invoke the extension and type any part of its name to find and jump to it. It’s been life-changing for me, personally (but yeah, I don’t keep anywhere near this number of tabs, still, haha).
This must be her “superpower base”
I have no idea why anyone would do that, but for the bookmark collectors, checkout “404 bookmarks” which detects websites that are down.
Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though
Like the Neil Peart of internet surfing!
Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though
Or at least to automatically make the archive!
A few years ago I tried to use ArchiveBox for this purpose, but it had problems, and development didn’t happen much since then.
Then recently I have found Linkwarden. That also seems to be a tackled together solution, like the installation instructions and not just unclear but also incorrect, and the real steps are weird…
Bit it seems to work so far. It can’t handle multiple versions of a website nicely, but at least you can submit the same site multiple times, with some minimum time limit.
Haven’t figured out yet how to easily forward links to it from my phone, though.No I mean if a link is dead, auto change the bookmark to archive.org
For whatever reason they have every website possible. I have no idea how they do that.
That ain’t no power user, that’s a lazy tech who needs to clean up after himself and close a browser window every once in awhile.
Everyone uses tech in their own way.
You and I might only have a few tabs open, this person has a lot.
It’s easy to be critical of them, but whatever.
Maybe it’s like saving shortcuts or files to the desktop. Seems ridiculous but if that’s how nan wants to do it who cares.
ill only judge them for not simply using bookmarks
I don’t use bookmarks
but why
why would I?
organization
organise what?
Yeah, I have a mental cutoff somewhere around 200 tabs. I don’t count them, but I routinely so a “close to the right” and get 100+ in the “are you sure” pop-up. I do this about every week or two… And yes, I close a lot of tabs as I go.
I just close them every day when I shut down my PC.
If I need one back I just re-open them.
If one of them really is that important that I need it multiple time, I create a bookmark for it.
Sometimes I even close my browser multiple times a day in order to clear all cookies since that is the easiest way. (Firefox setting)
Wouldn’t it be annoying to have to relogin everywhere?
Ctrl-h has entered the chat
History search sucks.
Of course the tabs would just come back up next time they open the browser window again. Can’t risk losing those precious tabs, there might be an important one among them.
Signed, a tab hoarder.
As a previous tab hoarder, excessive use of bookmarks is the answer. Organized is more useful, but even a single bookmark folder for all of your “I’ll need this later” tabs will do wonders for you, and being a bookmark hoarder is so much more functional than being a tab hoarder. You can actual reset your browser every once in a while.
Bookmarks are not a safe way to store links, as I have learned. Every URL can only be present in a single bookmark, and an addon can mess it all up if it decides to create new bookmarks for links that you have already bookmarked. It’s location (the bookmark directory) and tags are lost, and if the addon decides to delete the bookmark that it has made, the link itself is lost too.
Why not both? I currently have around 400 tabs open, and I cant even count how many bookmarks I have.
But then I’ll have to take an explicit action to keep my tab! I’d much rather have no action required to save that tab that I’m likely to never visit again.
Herself. Did you read the article?
McDonalds Power User Keeps 7,400+ drive through bags in back seat for 2 years!
This makes me feel good about my 300+ open tabs😅
So from a security mindset, this is a nightmare. This person must be a paid plant for Big Cross-Site-Tracking
So anyone can be a power user if they never close their tabs?
I dunno if I should be honored or terrified to know such people walk amongst us mortals.
How is that a “power user”? That’s just a poor way to use the browser. It’s basically just 7400 bookmarks in one long list; you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
A power user would use something called “bookmarks” to organise that better.
you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
You can with extensions. Tree Style Tabs, I dont even have a top tab bar.
Sidebery entered the chat
hell
And here am I, getting twitchy the moment the tab size shrinks. I can’t imagine having so many tabs open.
It’s bad enough my brain already does that by itself
This makes me feel better about the 100-200 tabs I have perpetually open.
TIL my dad is a power user with his “:D” tabs in Chrome on Android /s
:D and ∞ are the manifestations of my struggle
I recently saw it change to ;), whatever that means…
Is it possible to learn this power?
If I can do it, anyone can. Follow your dreams! I believe in you!
ADHD moment
“I have so many topics I want to look at at once!” proceeds to get distracted with one of them and forget about all the others
Out of sight out of mind.
That’s my problem. Three screen setup. I have three browser instances open.
Instance 1: YouTube. (Left screen) Instance 2: Gaming wiki’s and info for the game I’m currently playing. (Right screen) Instance 3. Online courses and study materials. (Right screen. I swap between instance 2 and 3 based on what in currently doing on my main monitor).
I’ll constantly delay or forget to study just because it’s not the currently opened in the foreground.
