• Peasley@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Vertical tabs really help. i average around 25, but sometimes i get well over 100. Too many tabs on the top bar and they just become icons with a few characters of text, but with vertical tabs you can actually read them.

    I use the “Tree style tabs” extension (which gives you outline-style tabs and sub-tabs) and a couple lines of userChrome.css to hide the top tab bar. Very happy they added native vertical tabs, i may switch to that eventually.

  • tyrant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    1 day ago

    What do you guys do with so many tabs? I usually close mine if I get more than 7 or 8

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      171·
      1 day ago

      In my case, ADHD, curiosity, and anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later.

      I never said it was RATIONAL behavior 😄

      • Beacon@fedia.io
        2·
        1 day ago

        That’s what bookmarks are for. And even if the webpage gets removed on the server you often can find it on archive.org . Heck if you really wanna make sure you can load the page later your can save the webpage locally onto your device

      • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later

        Yep, overcoming this and realizing I can almost always find what I found before, very easily, cured me of this. And even when it takes a bit of effort to search, it’s just a few minutes until I stumble on it again. Plus sometimes I come across other neat stuff while searching!

        Try it, you might like it!

    • cm0002@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 day ago

      I have all sorts of projects and tasks I jump between depending on my ever shifting priorities. And some projects of mine can spawn 20+ tabs on their own.

      I have hundreds of tabs open at any given time

      • SanguinePar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        24 hours ago

        Same here, often 20+ tabs per client, and sometimes working for 6-8 clients at a time. Plus a tab of my own for music/social/news/sport.

    • cageythree@lemmy.mlEnglish
      4·
      1 day ago

      I have lots of different things I’m doing, not simultaneously but all of them regularly.
      I have a hobby for which im using ~5-10 different sites regularly. And another hobby with ~3-5 sites.
      Then I have a business where I keep all relevant tabs open, which are quite a few as well. Then all the general stuff (emails etc). And I probably still forgot something.

      I’m still far away from the 100s, but I do keep around 20-30 tabs open all the time, and that doesn’t include any temporary tabs that I do close right after using it. I have them all sorted and separated using Firefox’ containers feature though.

      Yes I could work with bookmarks too, but that has a few downsides. For example, for my business I am working with different Google drive folders for each project. It would be annoying to keep the bookmarks up to date or to navigate to the relevant folder each time when I can just leave the tab open and continue where I left off. Another example is one of my hobbies where I use the same 10 sites every time, so I’d have to open 10 sites when I do the hobby and then close them when I’m done, which seems redundant to me for just the benefit of not having tabs open I’m not using at the moment.
      So ultimately, to me it’s way easier to have an overview of 30 open tabs than managing endless bookmarks that I need to keep up to date.

      What I would prefer is a feature where I can have different environments and all tabs of that environment open and close automatically. So I say I want the environment “work” and my 10 work tabs open, then I work, then I switch the environment profile and all current work tabs’ updated URLs get saved and the other environment’s tabs open. If there’s anything like that I’d be thankful for a recommendation.
      That’s the only way I see me not having dozens of tabs open all the time honestly.

    • andros_rex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      19 hours ago

      I end up reading Wikipedia or TVTropes (or everything2, or Reddit threads or Wookiepedia or ancient forums), and then each tab means that I open several more. I have social media posts open that I want to write arguments against later, articles that I might use in writing those arguments…

      My phone is usually at the cap of 500. Between Vivaldi and Firefox my computer probably in the thousands.

      I tried using “Pocket” to keep track of interesting articles instead, but it didn’t match my flow.

      It is hyperlexia and ADHD. I similarly own probably ~1000 or so books.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    Ten is about all I’ll have open at once. That happens usually when I’m researching something. When I’m satisfied with my research, I close the tabs. It makes me itchy to have so many open.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      51·
      1 day ago

      I’m pretty much the opposite: my ADHD is generally only mild to moderate in severity, but I’m EXTREMELY distractible and curious by nature (leading to opening tons of tabs relating to everything and nothing) and get irrational anxiety about needing whatever’s in a tab later and not being able to find it again.

      Of the 102 tabs, 79 were inactive ones I had long since moved on from 😄

  • BackgrndNoize@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    I usually have lots of tabs open for different topics of interest that I split into separate windows. I also unload all these windows other than the active window that I’m on, but I find Firefox still eats a lot of RAM and at times becomes slow. I use a session manager extension to save windows that I want for future reference. Still I wish there was a better way, so that Firefox doesn’t consume most of my ram. Are there any Firefox forks that are memory efficient. I don’t want to switch to a chromium based browser if possible.