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    3 months ago

    For the record (because I just looked it up, as I also have this problem): it’s ctrl+tab, but only if you enable “Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order” in Settings first.

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      3 months ago

      Default behavior is for psychopaths.

      I’m so confused every time I use a new browser.

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      3 months ago

      It’s so odd to me that this isn’t the default behaviour for all browsers especially Edge. It’s literally alt+tab behaviour but for some reason browser designers decided it wouldn’t work that way.

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      Dude answered his own question. Click random tab -> drag current tab off the window -> window returns to previous tab without any tabs being closed.

      Unhinged behavior nonetheless

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    Crtl + L to go to address bar, type % then a space, then the tab you looking for. Will search open tabs

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      But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.

      It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.

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    3 months ago

    That seems perfectly reasonable. That is little more than 100 tabs per window. I routinely have more than 500 tabs per window. Currently, I have 3 windows open with a rough total of 15000 tabs

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      I believe, you can basically turn it off in Firefox, by telling it to open new windows instead of tabs.

      Might need to hide the tab bar via userChrome.css, though…

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        Oh I have it figured out now :3

        But ye, I have my browser set to launch a new window. Not on firefox tho, I switched off of it cause I didn’t care to mess with files just to get the tab bar off of my screen lol

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    What do browsers even let you do this? I feel like it should cap out at like 200 max. Nobody even needs 200 but there’s got to be some kind of limit somewhere.

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          I had fifty open one day after working a tech related bug. I wasn’t getting anywhere so I closed it out and switched search engines. Less than thirty minutes later I and found a solution.

          Too many tabs is a huge distraction. Its also a common thing to see if you are working tech support for a organization. I’ve seen well over a hundred tabs open on some users browsers.

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      If you can bg inactive tabs they just become another type of bookmark, because they don’t the up any memory

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          Tabs are part checklist. If I use bookmarks, they go out of siht, out of mind. As tabs there’s a reminder to resolve the topic.

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              No, some items have a dozen tabs associated, and others are recurring tasks.

              I only have maybe 15 topics in my tabs, half are waiting on something else to be resolved, and a sixth are videos to be watched.

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                Realistically- how often do you actually go through and take care of these items, and how important was it really if it could sit on the list while hundreds of other things pile up?

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                  Hundreds of other things? I just said 15 things!

                  There’s definitely tab rot though, and coming back to an area often sees half of the tabs cleared before continuing. I can’t imagine that kind of turnover with bookmarks though, especially with how comparatively clunky removing bookmarks is.

                  Boockmarks don’t updated themselves either, so keeping my place in a story or post list is way harder. Tabs also maintain physical correlations, with a parent tab closing all children when closed, and staying near where you use them. Bookmarks need to be explicitly organized and updated, taking several clicks for each, instead of being organized and updated just by using them.

                  How often are tabs processed? Most tabs get closed before they’re a week old, some groups are reused every week --TTRPG references mostly-- currently using ~15 tabs: 5 indexes, 2 character sheets, 5 common references, and whatever weird stuff was relevant last session

                  Other groups are used or closed as projects are worked on: 6 tabs for Factorio calculators, ~10 tabs for exoplanet research for worldbuilding, ~20 game tutorials (these could probably be bookmarks), ~15 wikis for the various games I’ve played in the last few months (half could be bookmarks), ~10 tabs for setting up my new phone (these will be closed soon), 5 tabs I just closed because I stopped needing them, ~5 youtube series I listen to while I work, as the topic strikes me, ~15 individual videos I’ll probably watch in the next few weeks (several are 2+ hours long), ~15 music tabs of either specific songs or topics I listen to as the fancy strikes me, ~20 tabs of bugs and issues I’ve been having (which will get cleared when I resolve them or stop caring), ~20 tabs of research for a work project (15 will probably be closed immediately)(should probably not be in my personal browser), ~10 tabs of stuff I just looked up in the last couple of days and haven’t closed yet, And probably 10 aspirational tabs of stuff I’d like to get to in the future, but probably won’t (definitely won’t if they’re bookmarks).

                  I’ve touched ~80% in the last 3 months, and ~50% this month, although my phone has a lot more old aspirational tabs.

                  When it comes to a list building up, what’s the difference between old tabs and old bookmarks anyway? Neither are using any resources. A link wouldn’t be and more or less important as a bookmark than a tab.