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Firefox Power User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs Open for 2 Years (www.pcmag.com)
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[–] dhtseany@lemmy.ml 134 points 2 months ago (6 children)

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.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 45 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] ech@lemm.ee 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] Cossty@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Why not both? I currently have around 400 tabs open, and I cant even count how many bookmarks I have.

[–] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 0 points 2 months ago

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.

[–] SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 33 points 2 months ago

McDonalds Power User Keeps 7,400+ drive through bags in back seat for 2 years!

[–] datavoid@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Ctrl-h has entered the chat

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

History search sucks.

[–] steakmeoutt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

Herself. Did you read the article?

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

ill only judge them for not simply using bookmarks

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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)

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Wouldn't it be annoying to have to relogin everywhere?