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cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

hey how'si t going. just closed 1600 tabs


hellgnoll
@hellgnoll

We were chilling and she was remarking how relatable tabpocalypses were, having always like forty tabs open. I asked her, in my smuggest tone, to guess how many tabs i had open. She guessed sixty. I told her lower. She guessed thirty. I said lower. She guessed twenty. I said lower. At this point she started to crack, asking me, incredulously, ten?? I said lower, grinning like the devil i am. She took a long shot. Three? I cackled. Lower. Fuck you, she said. I had one tab open.


pendell
@pendell

I can't close my browser or turn off my computer if I haven't closed all my tabs. I have my browser set to always open with a fresh start and to never reopen tabs from when I last closed the browser, because that disturbs me greatly.

My rule of thumb is if I've opened enough tabs for the X to no longer appear if I hover over an unfocused tab, then I've got too many tabs open, and I must Prune Them, Immediately.


cathoderaydude
@cathoderaydude

this is an easy hurdle for me to overcome: i haven't turned my computer off since 2002


aune
@aune

tabs are the sort of thing that i do not trust, as someone who adopted Tabbed Browsing early, but

if I do not have the number of eyes to keep tabs on the tab count, it is too many tabs and i will fight them


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in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

tbh it's because I'm not actually that disorganized. Usually any given bunch of tabs is related to a project I was working on. I use a vertical tab addon so I can see the names clearly and I just hold down ctrl+w and close 50 at a time, stopping whenever I see a flash of a title that looks unrelated to whatever I was working on at the time.

if you're on firefox, you can click a start tab and shift+click the end tab and then close them all at once. i think chrome does this too. and both vertical tab addons i've tried support this also. but it's less satisfying with the addon imo because it opens some popup and closes one at a time automatically.

it very much does not, as this backs up to Google drive in a way I can standardize tabs across my machines, since you can restore from backup files. And you can give your trees to other people, handing them the research path, as long as you only open things in new tabs and never close tabs when researching something.

it's TST but a session manager and organizer and labeler.

each top level category you see there is a whole window. greyed out ones are unloaded, stored for when I need them again.

in reply to @pendell's post:

in reply to @cathoderaydude's post:

I apparently do not do nearly enough research, because I have exactly 10 sticky tabs open, and currently the same three plain tabs I have been keeping track of randomly. The sticky tabs are currently: IRC client (The Lounge), personal Elk instance which runs against our personal Mastodon Glitch Social instance, Cohost, Gmail, Fastmail, my Home Assistant instance, my machine's Portainer instance, my machine's weewx instance monitoring my backyard thermometer probe on 433MHz using an SDR, Speed Test Tracker's admin page which is probing my connection every half hour, and finally, Syncthing that I've been meaning to use again.

Current plain tabs open: 'ats2851' search on linux-bluetooth on marc.info, The Bottles list for A Link Between Worlds on Zelda Dungeon, and the Secret Seashells list for Link's Awakening for Switch on IGN which will start autoplaying fricking videos every time I restart my browser and it loads the page. (Bonus: IGN won't let you turn off autoplaying unless you register an account with them)

I really need to look into researching something useful, but I mostly just do software dev projects that come along and are related to the upkeep of my computer. And I tend to spend more time searching my browser history for closed pages than keeping tabs permanently open and searching those somehow.