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I'm always surprised people hoard tabs. The explanation is always some crazy shit and they're basically bookmarks to some

Laughs nervously

Funnily enough, on firefox on my PC I have an entire extension called "no tabs" which does exactly what it says and disables tabs. On my phone just never open any tho :3

Maybe it's just me but I've never had a problem with building up too many tabs. Like I can't stand having more than like four.

Bookmarks, however, I have a lot of bookmarks.

I've honestly started doing that at least once a week and it really feels good for my mind to let that go. I can find whatever site it was later on when I actually need it again

On Monday morning turn on the extension “tabs2text”

Export to markdown and paste into an Emacs org-file under a new date.

Close all tabs and turn off the extension.

Now you are clear to start another week without fear of losing a link and without the burden of any open tabs.

If the tabs truly love you, they will come back.

I will open 15 tabs, forget why, and just close my browser. I keep history off. Writing a commemt? Doesn't matter. Email? There's probably a draft. Half finished video? The algorithm will guide it back to me if it was meant to be.

Tabs are ephemeral

I don’t even save history

Insanity. Those are all things I want to look at later.

It honestly pisses me off that restoring tabs is default behavior. If I closed the browser I meant too and if I didn't mean to oh fucking well. If I wanted to save that shit for later it would have been a bookmark.

Set them free. If they come back it's meant to be.

Sometimes I’ll declare tab bankruptcy and just close the whole window. If it’s important I’ll find it again

For all y'all thinking closing 800 tabs is bad, that's a habit exploited by session stealing attacks to take your money, socials, and email.

If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was.

I switched to vertical tabs and started using tab groups so I never lose anything I don't mean to (I treat non-grouped tabs as ephemeral)

But that's just because I always have the same stuff open (LAN services, but also videos and music because I use tabs like a pseudo playlist)

I lost 5 years worth of restaurants and travel places I'd been secretly saving to do retirement trips with my wife someday (lol, retirement...)

They got moved to "archived" and then apparently they get removed from archived after 30 days unless you disable that "feature"

I went to add a restaurant one day and the entire set of tabs was gone. No idea how long it had been gone for, and browsing through my history of closed tabs on my cell phone was neigh impossible.

I'm still incredibly salty about that.

I prefer to just have one tab open unless I'm copying or pasting or have to reference something from another site at the same time.

My goldfish memory makes me forget about the other open tabs after a while anyway, so they become useless xD

I close all tabs before I close the browser.

I only have more than two or three open if I'm researching something.

I use bookmarks, I have maybe 75 bookmarks.

I use the Singlefile extension to save full pages if I think I'll want to reference something in the future, but don't want to use a bookmark.

But I like when my tab counter says ∞ or :) …

I do not understand people who have dozens of tabs open at once. i have three, maybe four at max. Most the time i have only two. what is even the point of having a dozen or more tavs open, you aren't using them all, are you?

Fucking philospher over here. Fuck restoring tabs though. It's bad luck, there might be a reason it crashed that has to do with evil spirits.

The fun of being a supervillain

When troubleshooting a problem I'll often end up with 10-20 tabs open. I realize many people end up with hundreds or more and, if that works for them, fine; however, I find even what I open stressful. As a result, I've occasionally found it helpful to fully close my browser and relaunch without any of the old stuff.

I also do a lot of searching in private mode, but that's mostly because I'm embarrassed about some of the simple things I have to look up. Supposedly the company doesn't actively track what sites we visit and now there's no local evidence of how stupid I am. Well, at least not via my web searches.

Sending this to my wife. She flips her shit when she loses her tab prison.

I'm screwed - I use Linux.

If I want to save something, I bookmark it.

I have like 50 tabs across various groups. A lot are things I want to read but haven't gotten to yet, a few are just work (email, slack, onedrive). Some are for job apps. I do restore my tabs lol.

Bookmarks are messier because the papers aren't necessary all the time and their citations are in endnote. But if I bookmarked all the papers I'd have some thousands which is too messy in a browser.

Meanwhile, my dad has had the same tabs open for years and multiple computers at this point.