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Not sure where the attention span zing came from, but if it's something I'm working on, it's filled in a to do list of some sort.
If I'm considering a purchase, it's either in a cart or on a wish list, or has a bookmark.
Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.
Like I get the fact that ADHD is a whole thing, I'm just saying I can't personally grasp how using this coping mechanism works.
I understand having questions like this, but from a somewhat more quote unquote "normal" pov, I can't understand it.
You said I needed meds, I say you don't have a working short term memory..maybe we're both wrong, maybe just you're wrong, but I'm ok with those odds.
It sounds like your entire argument is that you organize open tabs using alternative tools to people who use tabs. You use a bookmark, I leave the tab open. You seemingly only shop for things in one store (if you can leave it in the cart), I do not.
Leaving all that open is obviously not making your computer sad. That reflects a misunderstanding of how computers work. Does Firefox take 10 gb of ram if you let it? Of course. But thankfully there's tab sleeping..it's like a bookmark except the tab is still there.
It's not a coping mechanism for adhd. I wouldn't be surprised if there were some correlation but I can't even think of what part of adhd this is supposed to be coping for.
I don't think you're normal, the majority of the people I know both in work and life have more than 5 tabs open.
I presented one specific scenario/use case that I find completely ridiculous, intimating it was an ADHD symptom that one would need a better medical therapy to get past. That was exaggeration. I realize that doesn't necessarily come across via text comments with strangers.
I hadn't heard of "tab sleeping" either, so knowing that does blow that issue away. So I concede that point.
And I don't use just one store. You can leave things in however many carts you have accounts for. Personally I rarely take longer than one browsing session to purchase something, but I understand that's not necessarily everybody.
The longest (and most complicated, speaking of tab usage) browser process I've ever done was when I built my last computer. I used 3 different stores just for that, and took a couple days to finalize the final choices of parts, but even then I didn't keep them all open.
And if tab sleeping really does fix the resource issue, then I'm not even arguing this process is better or worse anymore, aside from just opening up articles without ever actually reading them.
I can probably use my fingers to count how many times I've needed multiple windows in my life (and I'm old now in Internet years), and double digit quantities of tabs is probably barely a bigger number.
Personally, organizing and keeping track of that many things open would drive me nuts.
No it doesnt. Take it from someone who has a dozen of browser windows open at all times with at least the same amount of tabs in each of those. I figured out how to close Firefox so it restarts with all previous windows again.
But it will only load those tabs once I click on them and even has a feature to unload tabs again. My personal shitty method has the downside, that each window will have an active tab that will be loaded at startup, but I work around that by always having an empty tab in each window to take that place.
Doesn't use noticeably more RAM or CPU that way, than a typical browsing session.
So it's just like hoarder mentality then.
Not sure how much good closing and opening windows is then. If you close a window, those tabs are supposedly fine, but if you have "dozens" and close 2, what happens when you open a new one?
You have some kinda choice to resurrect a specific window? Or do you just run one window of every browser in existence?
I'm not claiming, that it's a well thought out system. It's just what I do.
Closing windows is a thing I try to avoid, but if it happens, there's always my browser history that allows me to resurrect a few of them. (This is all happening in firefox btw. though I use different browsers on special occasions, for example if a website doesn't support the gecko engine very well)
I avoid closing windows because it still makes me nervous because this used to mean they were hard to recover and that fear is deeply ingrained in the back of my mind.
Using several windows is a way to keep tabs separated, because I lose track when I have to scroll through them. I could use tab groups for that, but meh... It also allows me to have them on different screens for stuff where I need to look up several things simultaneously.
sometimes I'm a bit overwhelmed by the number of windows though. But I'm too deep into it to change my habits. Wouldn't recommend it though.
All I'm saying is, that my PC doesn't mind at all.