Comment on Why do some people have so many tabs open on their browser?

Steve@communick.news ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• bufalo1973@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  More like a “level 1 bookmarks”.

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• witty_username@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I use them as a sort of bookmark cache. Stood I’m unlikely to want to keep for long but also not stuff I want to discard immediately. I use the tree style tabs plugin in ff, works beautifully

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  • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Just tried that extension, and it’s pretty cool. Might actually keep it.

    Also tried OneTab which condenses open tabs into a single list of links. Could be ideal for people who always need more RAM.

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• IceFoxX@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  For people who are overwhelmed by tidying up (or can’t find anything afterwards xD) or managing bookmarks. So they simply use a chaotic system.

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• TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Interesting. I get it that making bookmarks takes some effort, so it’s easier to just ignore that system and use tabs instead. If you have hundreds of tabs open, how can you find anything? I just use the history of Firefox to find old stuff. The search feature actually works. Just sort by date and you can find that news article you almost read two months go.

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  • Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Firefox actually searches tabs first when you enter something into the adress bar and switches to the tab automatically when you press enter.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Oh that feature. I bump into it all the time when I want to open the same site 4 times and then fork them into 4 different things. Could be handy for other people, but I tend to find that feature more annoying than useful. Fortunately ctrl+l, ctrl+c, ctrl+t, ctrl+v works too.

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  • Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    My history has thousands of results, my tabs don’t.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Same here, but the but my history is sorted by last visited. Usually I’m looking for something that’s relatively recent, so it should be among the first 10 results. However, I’m beginning to warm up to the idea of having more tabs.

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  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I split the tabs into multiple windows by category, personally (tho firefox’s tab grouping is pretty great too). And it’s more about it being present - bookmarks are fine, but if I am not actively reminded of something I likely will just forget about it entirely.

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    • TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Well, that is a good point. Tabs are always more or less visible, so you may remember to check something that looked interesting last week.

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