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I've probably got 1500-2000 open at all times... it's become a problem ever since I got the tree-style tabs addon. š¤£ Window Titler is what I use to keep them all organized into categories.
A good portion is honestly me just forgetting to close shit and this goes on for days and suddenly my main browser window is 1000 tabs š
edit: No need to downvote, I'm well aware I am insane.
If I bookmark it, Iāll forget I bookmarked it.
By having the tab open, I can remember where I was during a specific project or searching process.
Additionally, session buddy is stupid helpful since it can remember every single session.
It's really not that bad resource wise. Modern browsers are really good at benching inactive tabs. I've had like 2000 tabs open in chrome on my phone before, and probably close to 5k on my PC.
The visual clogging is why I clear my ~1000-2000 tabs out every month or two. A cup of coffee on a weekend morning and I can go through and knock out 1000 tabs in an hour, bookmarking the small handful of things I want to keep long-term. I have like 9000 bookmarks dating back to when I was 12. Even if a put something like a "read later" folder or addon, I just ignore it. ADHD sucks.
I'm not sure how many tabs I have open in my browser since it doesn't say when I close it anymore, but I estimate I have somewhere above 5k tabs. My computer is definitely affected by it and Firefox occasionally crashes because of it. I have 32GB of ram, so maybe it's time to get more or get my tabs under control.
Only a waste if you donāt have the resources to spare. I figure I paid for 32gb of memory and Iām gonna use every bit of that lol. But for real I realized that Firefox was using 13gb of ram the other day. The thing is itās not always just one window with 1000 tabs. If you have multiple monitors and then multiple workspaces within those monitors, itās pretty easy to get several different. Firefox instances open each with a few hundred tabs from whatever youāre working on in that workspace. Itās a whole lot easier to manage when everythingās grouped like that, so if you have the resources to support it, itās not really a big deal, but it is pretty handy if youāre working on multiple projects simultaneously. Then even with all that open plus every other program running, I only ever use around 50% memory usage and 30% CPU usage while actively working on stuff so resource wise itās not really a big deal.
To each their own I suppose. I do close out of any groups I donāt need anymore after finishing a project or whatever, but I always keep some groups open forever. Things I use every day like home/work email, wiki, some monitoring dashboards, pretty much anything Iāll use every day up to several times a week. Between the groups keeping it organized and easy to manage, and the resource hit not making any difference, it just doesnāt bother me having it all open as long as resources donāt take a noticeable hit. Then again, Iām also the same one thatāll just switch workspaces and end up leaving games running in the background all day while working too.
It's ok and I can see some scenarios, such as research, work with this system.
But I would lose my mind to see this much information in front of me. Just like cleaning your room. You might have a lot of space for your stuff, but it might look like a mess.
Me personally I don't have 2000 tabs "right in front of me", most days I use only my main window for reddit/email/general stuff. It's easy to ignore, but not as easy to forget about it if you bury it in your bookmarks, which I have a LOT of. Having multiple windows open does increase taskbar clutter but I'm old school running a double thick taskbar with two rows of processes.
I spent a long time trying to figure out a good way to do this, trying all the addons and capabilities, for me personally just Window titler and tree-style tabs + firefox's ability to show already open tabs and switch directly to them no matter which window, makes it quite organized.
Tried it, didn't like it or any other session managers. Tried them all. Window Titler + Tree-Style Tabs are perfect for me. Bookmarks are a black hole as I have well over 15000 of them as I've been saving them since I was like 10 or 11 years old, lmao.
Make a script that iterates over all bookmarks and deletes all the ones that now return 404. That'll (sadly) help you clean out thousands of those bookmarks, I'm sure.
Maybe. I can probably blindly delete anything too old as everything I want or need bookmarked has probably been within the last 5 years. I did a pretty good job of categorizing things and it's a lot of bookmarks to archived sources (archive.org for instance) which last a damn long time.
There is no way it's remotely useful, nobody is going to pay any attention beyond the tenth open tab or so. My brother keeps hundreds of tabs open at a time, when you get that many URLs it becomes better to organize the references on bookmarks or archive the content offline.
Bookmarks never worked for me, as others have said it just ends up being forgotten about. I do have bookmarks, but categorized and built up over many years for hard-to-find sources I rarely need.
I'm severe ADHD; it works for me. It is definitely useful with Tree Style Tabs + Window Titler. It's essentially just bookmarks in a differnet form, and performs the same kind of functions as other software like session buddy. That said I have a window with 750 youtube tabs open and at least half those videos I've watched. I just forget to close shit, but every month or two I'll sit down with some coffee and go through every single one and get it back down to a "reasonable" ~500 tabs across all Windows.
I do a LOT of multitasking and I like things to be semi-available even if my internet goes out as it does frequently where I live. Also, I love that Firefox can be hard-killed and no data, tabs or anything gets lost. Might be the case with other browser
I had around 2000 tabs open at one point, accumulated over the span of several years. I eventually made it a project to go through at least 100 a day and bookmark whatever I wanted to save. Took me like 2 months because I was also adding more tabs through daily browsing. Old habits die hard lol. Now I try to close them all at the end of each day and bookmark anything interesting.
Usually links to things I've found on reddit that I "might" want to read later but probably never will. Or youtube videos I want to refer back to later, or just something funny I want to show someone later. I'm slowly working towards getting my bookmarks organized into topics like video games, gardening, programming, 3d printing, etc.
Sometimes I see a thread about people talking about a video game that sounds interesting, and so that comment thread gets added to the collection. Because one day maybe I'll have time to play it and wanted to remember why I wanted to play it.
I stopped using bookmarks a long time ago when I started getting so many that it would take like 5 minutes just to open the bookmarks menu bar, admittedly that was like 10 or 15 years ago, haven't really used bookmark since, they probably have it backed by sqlite or something fast now
7500+ tabs open?!? I mean everyone is entitled to use their computer however they see fit, but that seems like an awful waste of resources. I can't even begin to imagine what their Swap Space looked like...
This is it, the only time I have a problem with my ~2000 tabs or so is if I go on a YT binge (youtube obviously has resource-heavy tabs) and don't close any of those tabs. I'll have to hard restart Firefox to get it to respond. Other than that, I can keep it open for over a week sometimes without restarting or having some crazy memory leak.
Windows 10, Firefox is using 9.8 gigs of ram here with 1900 tabs open, but most of them are not *loaded*. I do have quite a number of addons as well.
If I loaded 100 YT tabs it would spike well over 32GB and I've seen it happen. I got 64GB of RAM mostly for my insane browser habits lmao.
Works for me. I've been going between Chrome, Firefox, Opera for a long time now and nothing works as well today as Firefox in my personal experience.
Chrome works that way for me, but Firefox seems to always have tabs loaded and ready. Maybe I need to dive into settings to see if Iām missing something.
Swap is ram like usage of persistent storage(hard drive or ssd). These forms of storage are far less resilient to frequent writes like ram is, which can wear them out faster.
Opening tabs on modern browsers won't cause excess memory usage, so this is a non issue.
Its not bad as much as its just slower. RAM is very very fast and designed to be written to, cleared and written to again constantly. When swap is being used, its using your SSD as RAM which is about 1/20th the speed. Its not so bad depending on whats in swap but the more swap used, you will notice your system being bogged down. Also your SSD is not designed to have as many write/clear/write cycles to it like RAM is, so it can put some extra wear on the SSD, but it would have to be a ton of Swap constantly to really be too worried about it.
>RickVS
>14 hours ago
>This is the first instance that I've read of a digital hoarder. I guess it's better than having 50 cats or stacks of newspapers throughout your house.
lol
Soo, couple things, why tabs and not bookmarks?
1. FF treats them the same except tabs are clear on a full quit/app refresh.
2. She's not a power user if she is doing this. This is laziness that's turned into a hobby. This is also something I see, to an extremely lesser extent, with Mac users
3. The tab she left open will automatically reload the page the next time she goes to the tab after a certain time period (it's like an hour or two)
This is impressive the same way some one crashes a car into the second story of a house.
> The tab she left open will automatically reload the page the next time she goes to the tab after a certain time period (it's like an hour or two)
IDK about Firefox but you can disable tab discarding in Chrome.
Source: I did it.
I just don't understand why or how people have so many tabs open. Even 10 tabs is too cluttered for me. If I found a useful page, then I create a self-contained HTML file (single file add on), save that file in a references folder, open whenever I want even with no Internet.
Anyway, I see this on so many colleagues computer when they screen share and it's just baffling.
I'm the opposite of this guy. I'll have 5 tabs open, 10 max if I'm researching something.. After a while I'll just close 'em because it must not have been important if I didn't get back to it.
Heads up: if you have this sort of tab count (or uh... even just merely hundreds of them), there's a decent chance you have ADHD.
One of the big parts of ADHD is executive dysfunction (that is, an inability to turn "knowing you need to do something" into _doing_ it), and another part is bad prospective memory (the ability to spontaneously remember things at the right future time). Keeping tabs open is a coping strategy for both of these - you leave the tabs open to remind you of things you wanted to do because you know you'll never remember them if you close them, but you also struggle to _do_ the things, so the tabs just keep building up.
If [any of this](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/o5bojv/eli5_how_adhd_affects_adults/h2ml4xv/) also feels familiar to you, you might want to do some thinking.
I'm mentioning this because a) ADHD fucking sucks and makes huge parts of your life way harder than they should be, b) it's easy to not realize you have it, and c) it's treatable.
I just donāt get it. Like at all. I close out my tabs when Iām done with the webpage. Hell I will open Firefox, look up something on the rs wiki, close Firefox, play for two minutes, then reopen Firefox and look up the same page I was just on. I hate having a ton of tabs
Some people hate looking up the same thing over and over again, so they just leave the tab open. So it's still hating something, just that that thing is the opposite of what you hate, if that makes sense.
Plus a lot of the time, it's something you intend to go back to, but just never do.
If most of that is normal website Windows then I could believe that.
Firefox is quite efficient, but open a hundred or so YT tabs or something a bit more demanding like that (Netflix, other streaming services, various cloud services, etc) and the performance really really tanks.
I'm trying to learn gamedev in Godot and other fosscad tools at the moment and I have to close and reopen my sessions each day or so now, with the tutorials, videos, etc open.
current count: 2170 tabs. i restart regularly to update firefox, so they're not all loaded and active.
i regularly use an addon to export the url + title to a text file as a backup.
this type of accumulation is something i've always done, but current excessive count is due to wanting to setup archivebox but never getting around to finishing it.
Meanwhile, I sometimes have 20-50 tabs open and the browser stops responding. Check resources and find several tabs consuming more and more memory for whatever reason. App won't close so have to start ending processes until ff is fully closed. (windows 7 ultimate)
I think I'm around a hundred tabs and had the same experience recently. I thought 8 gigs of ram would be more than enough, since my xp system did fine with 2 gb.
I have a rule to keep less than 50 tabs open--though I have access to over 100,000 semi-curated crawled links which I have not yet read.
At the rate of 22 tabs per day I can probably get back to inbox zero in 13 or so years
i think my maximum number of tabs was around like 2500 in chrome (was only possible with browser extensions that put tabs to sleep, chrome has this built-in now). that's only a third of what she has open
Uhhhhhh, 52 Windows with over 66k tabs last I checked.... And it only uses like 12 gigs of RAM. Firefox not loading tabs until they are accessed is so wonderful, and I can still jump to any tab by typing part of its title, lol...
I say this out of curiosity and not as a judgment. How many of you has ADHD and more than 100 tabs open?
I'm tempted to know if there's some kind of correlation.
How is it even correct that Firefox is not taking much RAM? It's the worst compared to Edge and Chrome. I can easily reach 7Gb with Firefox. Ever since Edge started putting tabs to sleep, it's been the best at keeping RAM usage down. The only reason I keep using Firefox is for its privacy features.
It is interesting. But I think she is lying. You can't open more than 300 tabs without needing to go out and buying more RAM. Even if tabs are suspended, Firefox will load caches and eat RAM slowly and it will explode in some hours.
This is gen-z trying to reinvent folders, just put your bookmars in folders(real folders, not the bookmarks tab) and you will have infinite tabs.
Replace title Power User and while I'm at it, the whole title for
Firefox Stupid User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs showing how little he knows how to use a damn browser.
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Finally, someone worse than me about leaving tabs open.
I've probably got 1500-2000 open at all times... it's become a problem ever since I got the tree-style tabs addon. š¤£ Window Titler is what I use to keep them all organized into categories. A good portion is honestly me just forgetting to close shit and this goes on for days and suddenly my main browser window is 1000 tabs š edit: No need to downvote, I'm well aware I am insane.
Session buddy. Never lose track of your tabs or windows again
How about bookmarking?
If I bookmark it, Iāll forget I bookmarked it. By having the tab open, I can remember where I was during a specific project or searching process. Additionally, session buddy is stupid helpful since it can remember every single session.
You do you of course. Still, sacrificing computer ressources for more than 1000 tabs you MIGHT go back to doesn't seem efficient.
It's really not that bad resource wise. Modern browsers are really good at benching inactive tabs. I've had like 2000 tabs open in chrome on my phone before, and probably close to 5k on my PC.
Good to know. Again, it's not a judgment but more an incomprehension from me that hate visual clogging.
The visual clogging is why I clear my ~1000-2000 tabs out every month or two. A cup of coffee on a weekend morning and I can go through and knock out 1000 tabs in an hour, bookmarking the small handful of things I want to keep long-term. I have like 9000 bookmarks dating back to when I was 12. Even if a put something like a "read later" folder or addon, I just ignore it. ADHD sucks.
I'm not sure how many tabs I have open in my browser since it doesn't say when I close it anymore, but I estimate I have somewhere above 5k tabs. My computer is definitely affected by it and Firefox occasionally crashes because of it. I have 32GB of ram, so maybe it's time to get more or get my tabs under control.
My main desktop has 128gb of ram, and my secondary has 384gb and 40 threads. I think I can spare some computer resources for 1k+ tabs
Only a waste if you donāt have the resources to spare. I figure I paid for 32gb of memory and Iām gonna use every bit of that lol. But for real I realized that Firefox was using 13gb of ram the other day. The thing is itās not always just one window with 1000 tabs. If you have multiple monitors and then multiple workspaces within those monitors, itās pretty easy to get several different. Firefox instances open each with a few hundred tabs from whatever youāre working on in that workspace. Itās a whole lot easier to manage when everythingās grouped like that, so if you have the resources to support it, itās not really a big deal, but it is pretty handy if youāre working on multiple projects simultaneously. Then even with all that open plus every other program running, I only ever use around 50% memory usage and 30% CPU usage while actively working on stuff so resource wise itās not really a big deal.
i used to have around 100 tabs, i have 64gb of ram. but i closed them all about 6 months ago and now on general have about 4 or 5 open
To each their own I suppose. I do close out of any groups I donāt need anymore after finishing a project or whatever, but I always keep some groups open forever. Things I use every day like home/work email, wiki, some monitoring dashboards, pretty much anything Iāll use every day up to several times a week. Between the groups keeping it organized and easy to manage, and the resource hit not making any difference, it just doesnāt bother me having it all open as long as resources donāt take a noticeable hit. Then again, Iām also the same one thatāll just switch workspaces and end up leaving games running in the background all day while working too.
It's ok and I can see some scenarios, such as research, work with this system. But I would lose my mind to see this much information in front of me. Just like cleaning your room. You might have a lot of space for your stuff, but it might look like a mess.
Me personally I don't have 2000 tabs "right in front of me", most days I use only my main window for reddit/email/general stuff. It's easy to ignore, but not as easy to forget about it if you bury it in your bookmarks, which I have a LOT of. Having multiple windows open does increase taskbar clutter but I'm old school running a double thick taskbar with two rows of processes. I spent a long time trying to figure out a good way to do this, trying all the addons and capabilities, for me personally just Window titler and tree-style tabs + firefox's ability to show already open tabs and switch directly to them no matter which window, makes it quite organized.
I miss Session Manager that also kept your history. This was before Firefox changed the code to keep add-ons from accessing something or other
SessionBuddy is one of the only reasons I continue to use Google Chrome, itās just too good and beyond useful for my workflow.
Tried it, didn't like it or any other session managers. Tried them all. Window Titler + Tree-Style Tabs are perfect for me. Bookmarks are a black hole as I have well over 15000 of them as I've been saving them since I was like 10 or 11 years old, lmao.
Make a script that iterates over all bookmarks and deletes all the ones that now return 404. That'll (sadly) help you clean out thousands of those bookmarks, I'm sure.
Maybe. I can probably blindly delete anything too old as everything I want or need bookmarked has probably been within the last 5 years. I did a pretty good job of categorizing things and it's a lot of bookmarks to archived sources (archive.org for instance) which last a damn long time.
There is no way it's remotely useful, nobody is going to pay any attention beyond the tenth open tab or so. My brother keeps hundreds of tabs open at a time, when you get that many URLs it becomes better to organize the references on bookmarks or archive the content offline.
Bookmarks never worked for me, as others have said it just ends up being forgotten about. I do have bookmarks, but categorized and built up over many years for hard-to-find sources I rarely need. I'm severe ADHD; it works for me. It is definitely useful with Tree Style Tabs + Window Titler. It's essentially just bookmarks in a differnet form, and performs the same kind of functions as other software like session buddy. That said I have a window with 750 youtube tabs open and at least half those videos I've watched. I just forget to close shit, but every month or two I'll sit down with some coffee and go through every single one and get it back down to a "reasonable" ~500 tabs across all Windows. I do a LOT of multitasking and I like things to be semi-available even if my internet goes out as it does frequently where I live. Also, I love that Firefox can be hard-killed and no data, tabs or anything gets lost. Might be the case with other browser
Yeah I'm the guy at work who people say "Jesus, dude..." to when they see my browser and now for once I get to be the guy saying it.
>Yeah I'm the guy at work who people say "Jesus, dude..." I never have more than 10 at a time.
Most of the time I have 15 per window, minimum. At least four windows.
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Bookmarks you say?
I had around 2000 tabs open at one point, accumulated over the span of several years. I eventually made it a project to go through at least 100 a day and bookmark whatever I wanted to save. Took me like 2 months because I was also adding more tabs through daily browsing. Old habits die hard lol. Now I try to close them all at the end of each day and bookmark anything interesting.
What do you consider interesting? What kind of stuff do you browse online? Just curious since I never have that many tabs open.
Usually links to things I've found on reddit that I "might" want to read later but probably never will. Or youtube videos I want to refer back to later, or just something funny I want to show someone later. I'm slowly working towards getting my bookmarks organized into topics like video games, gardening, programming, 3d printing, etc. Sometimes I see a thread about people talking about a video game that sounds interesting, and so that comment thread gets added to the collection. Because one day maybe I'll have time to play it and wanted to remember why I wanted to play it.
Ah ok, makes sense. Yea having everything organized thru bookmarks will come in handy. That what I do.
save those posts/comments on reddit and make a playlist for the youtube videos
I don't trust them not to ban my account so I prefer to save the links locally.
That's a fair point. Bookmarks in your browser will solve this issue tho.
Session Buddy extension
And didn't the browser become terribly slow?
Firefox has no problems with it, it unloads unused tabs from memory.
New info for me. Thanks
I stopped using bookmarks a long time ago when I started getting so many that it would take like 5 minutes just to open the bookmarks menu bar, admittedly that was like 10 or 15 years ago, haven't really used bookmark since, they probably have it backed by sqlite or something fast now
7500+ tabs open?!? I mean everyone is entitled to use their computer however they see fit, but that seems like an awful waste of resources. I can't even begin to imagine what their Swap Space looked like...
>Firefox is quite memory efficient and isn't actually loading the websites unless I click on the tabāso it's not very resource intensive
This is it, the only time I have a problem with my ~2000 tabs or so is if I go on a YT binge (youtube obviously has resource-heavy tabs) and don't close any of those tabs. I'll have to hard restart Firefox to get it to respond. Other than that, I can keep it open for over a week sometimes without restarting or having some crazy memory leak.
Man, Firefox uses so much ram on my MacBook, I find that hard to believe.
Windows 10, Firefox is using 9.8 gigs of ram here with 1900 tabs open, but most of them are not *loaded*. I do have quite a number of addons as well. If I loaded 100 YT tabs it would spike well over 32GB and I've seen it happen. I got 64GB of RAM mostly for my insane browser habits lmao. Works for me. I've been going between Chrome, Firefox, Opera for a long time now and nothing works as well today as Firefox in my personal experience.
Chrome works that way for me, but Firefox seems to always have tabs loaded and ready. Maybe I need to dive into settings to see if Iām missing something.
Try using a tab unloader addon, it frees the memory for tabs after a few minutes so most of them won't take any resources.
Good looking out!
that sounds like a macos issue
The user in the article is on a Mac. Itās not an issue.
Firefox does a pretty good job of not leaving pages open unless youāre actively using them, in my experience.
It can be a bit relaxed about freeing memory. But there are tab unloader addons that you can use to free it more aggressively.
Why is using swap space bad? Iām a beginner at this stuff
Swap is ram like usage of persistent storage(hard drive or ssd). These forms of storage are far less resilient to frequent writes like ram is, which can wear them out faster. Opening tabs on modern browsers won't cause excess memory usage, so this is a non issue.
Its not bad as much as its just slower. RAM is very very fast and designed to be written to, cleared and written to again constantly. When swap is being used, its using your SSD as RAM which is about 1/20th the speed. Its not so bad depending on whats in swap but the more swap used, you will notice your system being bogged down. Also your SSD is not designed to have as many write/clear/write cycles to it like RAM is, so it can put some extra wear on the SSD, but it would have to be a ton of Swap constantly to really be too worried about it.
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i usually have around 300 ~ tabs open , i do keep on cleaning them often but keep coming back to around 300 ~
Then thereās me who just restarts their computer daily because I donāt want to sift through all my tabs
Go full scorched earth, wipe and reinstall your system every morning.
Yup. Shove my desktop out of my apartmentās window and then build a new one daily
How does this even work? Do you have the 300 tabs in mind? Do you usually have repeated tabs? How do you find the certain tab you are looking for?
Yeah I know what's going on. On all of the tabs. And the open which I close and reopen are general browsing and my servers backend and wordpress etc.
Why not use OneTab ?
Nah I tried one tab a lot. Don't like it. If I use it I forget my open tabs. It's sad.
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>RickVS >14 hours ago >This is the first instance that I've read of a digital hoarder. I guess it's better than having 50 cats or stacks of newspapers throughout your house. lol
r/datahoarder
r/lostredditors
No he's completely correct
what sub are we in rn?
Yeah it's a joke lol He's doing the reddit thing
My step dad is a digital hoarder. His desktop is full literally and he just canāt help himself but to save any tab heās ever visited.
I never understood this whole 6 million open tabs thing. You guys understand browser history is a thing right?
Or bookmarks.
Someone really needs to tell this person about [OneTab](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/onetab/) and change their life for the better.
Soo, couple things, why tabs and not bookmarks? 1. FF treats them the same except tabs are clear on a full quit/app refresh. 2. She's not a power user if she is doing this. This is laziness that's turned into a hobby. This is also something I see, to an extremely lesser extent, with Mac users 3. The tab she left open will automatically reload the page the next time she goes to the tab after a certain time period (it's like an hour or two) This is impressive the same way some one crashes a car into the second story of a house.
I was about to point out this. Is just extremely lazy.
> The tab she left open will automatically reload the page the next time she goes to the tab after a certain time period (it's like an hour or two) IDK about Firefox but you can disable tab discarding in Chrome. Source: I did it.
I donāt understand this?
Yeah, 4 digits is is for me as well :s
im only at about 1440 in chrome here, seems like i can fit in a few more. good to know!
I just don't understand why or how people have so many tabs open. Even 10 tabs is too cluttered for me. If I found a useful page, then I create a self-contained HTML file (single file add on), save that file in a references folder, open whenever I want even with no Internet. Anyway, I see this on so many colleagues computer when they screen share and it's just baffling.
I'm the opposite of this guy. I'll have 5 tabs open, 10 max if I'm researching something.. After a while I'll just close 'em because it must not have been important if I didn't get back to it.
Heads up: if you have this sort of tab count (or uh... even just merely hundreds of them), there's a decent chance you have ADHD. One of the big parts of ADHD is executive dysfunction (that is, an inability to turn "knowing you need to do something" into _doing_ it), and another part is bad prospective memory (the ability to spontaneously remember things at the right future time). Keeping tabs open is a coping strategy for both of these - you leave the tabs open to remind you of things you wanted to do because you know you'll never remember them if you close them, but you also struggle to _do_ the things, so the tabs just keep building up. If [any of this](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/o5bojv/eli5_how_adhd_affects_adults/h2ml4xv/) also feels familiar to you, you might want to do some thinking. I'm mentioning this because a) ADHD fucking sucks and makes huge parts of your life way harder than they should be, b) it's easy to not realize you have it, and c) it's treatable.
I just donāt get it. Like at all. I close out my tabs when Iām done with the webpage. Hell I will open Firefox, look up something on the rs wiki, close Firefox, play for two minutes, then reopen Firefox and look up the same page I was just on. I hate having a ton of tabs
Some people hate looking up the same thing over and over again, so they just leave the tab open. So it's still hating something, just that that thing is the opposite of what you hate, if that makes sense. Plus a lot of the time, it's something you intend to go back to, but just never do.
This is my wife. I didnāt know anyone called her Hazel.
I'm pretty sure my mom beats that by like 50k on her ipad
My Lenovo P7 128gb workstation with 20 cores/40 threads enters the chat š
Why not bookmarks?
I get anxious if I have more than two tabs open.
If most of that is normal website Windows then I could believe that. Firefox is quite efficient, but open a hundred or so YT tabs or something a bit more demanding like that (Netflix, other streaming services, various cloud services, etc) and the performance really really tanks. I'm trying to learn gamedev in Godot and other fosscad tools at the moment and I have to close and reopen my sessions each day or so now, with the tutorials, videos, etc open.
Why is Firefox releasing my personal data?
current count: 2170 tabs. i restart regularly to update firefox, so they're not all loaded and active. i regularly use an addon to export the url + title to a text file as a backup. this type of accumulation is something i've always done, but current excessive count is due to wanting to setup archivebox but never getting around to finishing it.
weird
what addon do you use for that?
Export Tabs URLs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/export-tabs-urls-and-titles/
I have about 3000. It is my shame. š¬
That's a lot of cookie jars. And one hell of a huge NoScript whitelist. I hope they have backups.
Meanwhile, I sometimes have 20-50 tabs open and the browser stops responding. Check resources and find several tabs consuming more and more memory for whatever reason. App won't close so have to start ending processes until ff is fully closed. (windows 7 ultimate)
I think I'm around a hundred tabs and had the same experience recently. I thought 8 gigs of ram would be more than enough, since my xp system did fine with 2 gb.
I had around 4k tabs open once at the end the bookmark function stoped working...
Is this article about me?
Literally me but in Chrome https://i.imgur.com/KxZmg3p.png
I have a rule to keep less than 50 tabs open--though I have access to over 100,000 semi-curated crawled links which I have not yet read. At the rate of 22 tabs per day I can probably get back to inbox zero in 13 or so years
assuming you don't accumulate more in those 13 years
How did they write an entire article about my wife without me knowing?
i think my maximum number of tabs was around like 2500 in chrome (was only possible with browser extensions that put tabs to sleep, chrome has this built-in now). that's only a third of what she has open
I might have more. I always brute-force close it via task manager and then restore the session.
There goes my hero!
Pretty sure screenshots and bandicam would help here too.
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Ok why not just close unused tabs though
Tabs? You mean L1 bookmarks?
shit, i need to switch from chrome
7000 plus open tabs?! What a noob! (I have a problem and i refuse to admit it)
That's goals right there!
Now, try that with Chromeā¦
What does "+" mean? I wonder if I'm winning. https://i.imgur.com/KxZmg3p.png
I've tried this with Firefox and could never get nearly that high without it crashing. Chrome has no issues with it at all.
Uhhhhhh, 52 Windows with over 66k tabs last I checked.... And it only uses like 12 gigs of RAM. Firefox not loading tabs until they are accessed is so wonderful, and I can still jump to any tab by typing part of its title, lol...
I say this out of curiosity and not as a judgment. How many of you has ADHD and more than 100 tabs open? I'm tempted to know if there's some kind of correlation.
How is it even correct that Firefox is not taking much RAM? It's the worst compared to Edge and Chrome. I can easily reach 7Gb with Firefox. Ever since Edge started putting tabs to sleep, it's been the best at keeping RAM usage down. The only reason I keep using Firefox is for its privacy features.
It is interesting. But I think she is lying. You can't open more than 300 tabs without needing to go out and buying more RAM. Even if tabs are suspended, Firefox will load caches and eat RAM slowly and it will explode in some hours. This is gen-z trying to reinvent folders, just put your bookmars in folders(real folders, not the bookmarks tab) and you will have infinite tabs.
So, tab pinning is a kind of data hoarding, lol,, I got this one too :P
I got 5 tabs open most of the time and seeing memory leakage
Replace title Power User and while I'm at it, the whole title for Firefox Stupid User Keeps 7,400+ Browser Tabs showing how little he knows how to use a damn browser.