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[-] GadgetGirlOz@lemmy.world 55 points 1 year ago

Zero. I think I’m the odd one out here. I have a habit of closing all tabs once I’m done, always have.

[-] ctag@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

I dig it, start fresh each time.

[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

Exactly. I cannot comprehend people with dozens of windows with thousands of them. How do you find literally anything at that point?

I usually close all, sometimes if I start a long video I'll keep it open and paused until I come back to watch more of it. But that's just one, and just because that site won't remember where I left off, and I don't want to memorize what the timestamp is. I will have to refresh the page to get it to resume loading the video, but I can remember the timestamp for the 2 seconds it takes to reload and click back to it. But I'll forget if I have to come back hours later.

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[-] pugsnroses77@sh.itjust.works 39 points 1 year ago

my firefox app gave up counting and just shows an infinity symbol :(

[-] Swarfega@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

That's all I ever see on my wife's phone in Chrome. Just a smiley face. Personally it bugs the shit out of me. I close any unwanted tabs.

[-] androidul@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

hey I saw that as well on my wife’s chrome on phone, it’s really scary

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[-] ctag@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 1 year ago

That's.. kinda scary. How much RAM do you have?

[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 22 points 1 year ago

Doesn't matter that much if they're unloaded.

[-] LeadSeason@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

5k tabs
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At 1k tabs firefox was snappy and responsive, but at 5k tabs it was bad, very unstable, buggy and sluggish.
Firefox would crash often even doing simple tasks, some times it took 2 or 3 tries to open firefox. scrolling through all the tabs a couple of minutes.
But all good things must come to an end. Now I close any extra tabs, have 5 - 30 tabs open.

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Who are you so wise in the ways of tabs?

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[-] paskalivichi@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago

I think this is a generational question. I'm anal about tabs being left open like a light in the house being on

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[-] Yax@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

Fun fact: if you open more than 100 tabs in chrome (at least on android), it no longer shows the number of open tabs, it just says ":D".

If it's incognito tabs, it says ";)".

I haven't seen a number in years. This means I'd have to count manually which I'm not going to do. Hope this answers your question sufficiently.

[-] Laticauda@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

On Firefox it's an infinity symbol.

[-] Gallardo994@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

100 incognito tabs

You're picky indeed, my friend.

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[-] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

You should get vertical tabs on your browser. Tree style tab for Firefox is pretty good.

[-] misophist@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I prefer Sidebery, but vertical tabs of any sort are the way to go. Plus userChrome.css to nuke the top tab bar.

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[-] IndefiniteBen@leminal.space 12 points 1 year ago

100's. It's easy when using a tool like tree tabs.

I have several different ongoing projects with different avenues of research and I use it like a temporary store until I organise and store them.

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[-] sour@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

4

if tab not relevant to task then am close

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[-] technohacker@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago

Had 300 on my laptop a while ago, finished up a project which let me drop it down to 160.

On my desktop I have 1,300 or so. Both of them on a single Firefox window with Sidebery

[-] rckclmbr@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Have you used TreeStyleTab? I'm wondering how it compares with Sidebery

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[-] clark@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago

How do people manage to have more than 6 tabs open? What is this talk about 500-1000+?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

I do when researching buying a product, having different tabs open comparing different models, with each their different stores and a bunch of reviews. You can easily get more than 20.

Same with researching a science topic.

But after being done, those tabs get closed. I rather start with a fresh browser each time.

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[-] tun@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

136

Most are unloaded. Using Firefox and sidebery on Linux with 32GB of RAM.

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[-] Kase@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Zero. Maybe it's the OCD, but I never ever leave open a tab I'm not actively using, even if it means I open and close the same few tabs every five minutes for 8 hours every day.

Yeah, probably the ocd lmao.

[-] runjun@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Seeing that many tabs gives me actual anxiety.

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[-] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

I just closed 47. All of them Amazon...

My best friend is having a babby...

Xmas...

Starting a small business and tools are needed...

I just moved to south Florida, and the bugs are the size of house cats, so I require a salt shotgun...

SO. MANY. HOLIDAY. DEALS.

Like I've never been a shopping addict, but I had a budget of about $1000 for all of that, and I blew through it QUICK.

I could see how it could be addictive, but I do know when to walk away.

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[-] squiblet@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago
  1. The way people use tabs is bizarre to me. My ex would have so many open that it was really difficult to navigate between them. Seems like a better idea to use features like bookmarks or reading list.
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[-] Hubi@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

This one. I used to have a bunch of tabs pinned but having to restore them frequently just became a hassle, so I added them to my bookmarks.

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[-] PixxlMan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I had over 2000 in Firefox. That's when I decided to clear them...

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[-] Savaran@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

A few hundred. At the end of a “project/idea/thing” I’ll bookmark the entire set, dated, described, and close them all at once, things always come back in need later. It’s very satisfying.

For normal day to day browsing I have a window with about 15 pinned tabs that I just cycle through in the morning catching up on stuff and then close that window.

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

After closing a dozen left over from looking up various topics over the last few days, 164 tabs, some of which are probably 5 years old. I swear I'll look at them someday!

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[-] wheeldawg@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I mean I love tabs, use em all the time. But currently my computer has just 1 open.

I don't use em as bookmarks to get back to. People seem to just hoard them. And for no reason.

You can't tell me there's a good reason to keep hundreds open. It's just laziness at that point.

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[-] sheepishly@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

69 (okay actually it was 67 but I opened a few more to make it the funny number)

[-] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Bare minimum is 7 cus they are pinned. These are tabs I reference constantly. 2 for monitoring servers, 2 for emails, 2 for chat, 1 for lofi girl.

After that it's just based on the current project. So anywhere from 1 for browsing to 20 while doing research.

Add another 7 if you include my work computer for the various sites I work out of.

I try to close anything not currently used quite often and just store things in bookmarks.

[-] 257m@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

More than I can count thats for sure.

[-] art@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Zero. Not using a browser right now but I usually only have 1-2. Anything more than 6 tabs open and I start getting turned around.

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[-] sbv@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

I use a browser extension that closes the least recently used tab after 15 minutes. It stops closing when it reaches five for the current window.

I don't think I'm missing anything.

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[-] IronKrill@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

At current count, 911. I used to sit around 3000 but managed to shave it down, now it's creeping back up.

Too many things I want to download or read later and not as much time as I used to have. I have been making an effort to use alternative methods though such as bookmarks, YouTube playlists, or just, you know, doing the thing in the moment.

[-] 1984@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago

Usually not more then 30 before I close most of them with "Close all tabs to the right".

I have browsing history so don't need tabs.

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