Poll: How many Tabs does your browser sport
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...that's about the average number of tabs I have open in my browser...
(and when I start researching something, they multiply exponentially)- I have too many tabs on too many different browsers to count them
- more than 50
- 20 < Tabs < 50
- totally more than 10, I promise!
- less than 10 because tabs are a barrier to reading
- Only 1 because Discourse eats all my ram
- ERROR: TAB_NOT_FOUND
- a negative 100000000000 because I hate polls
Yeah, I was just wondering how many tabs do you guys keep open within your browser of choice / several browsing tool?
Whenever people look over my shoulder while I am browsing things they become confused and tell me I have too many tabs so I was wondering how you guys felt about this.
I am one who doesn't count them any more. I usually clean browsers of all the tabs every few months only to be back up to 50 in a few days.
So, do you guys have any preferenced number of tabs? Does it help you keep your sanity? Did you vote for one of the options that I had to add because they need to be in a poll? EXPLAIN DAMNIT!
Filed Under: I hope that poll works because it sure as hell doesn't look that way in the preview
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However many I can get in the groups!
Or... could, they removed it in newer Opera versions :(
Right now I use Firefox just so I can have this:
Tree Style Tab – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Tree Style Tab for Firefox. Show tabs like a tree.
So the answer is... I don't know. There are several groups in there, fuck knows how deep since middle clicking creates another branch. I usually leave them open while I research shit and just eradicate groups as I finish.
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Once again, I'm Doing it Wrong™
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The problem is: According to the link you are doing it as wrong as Jeff. Thats where you should draw the line!
Filed Under: I have a dream! I dream that people can open as many tabs as they want without being discriminated or compared to Jeff Artwood! | I just realized, I also wrong the same way
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I tend to close tabs when I don’t use them, so I rarely go over 10 or 15; I prefer native applications over web apps, maybe that helps.
I also started browsing the web when Firefox was called Netscape, tabs were called windows, and opening too many (read: 2 or 3) of them caused out-of-memory errors.
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Currently 11 (7 in one window, 4 in another).
Does anyone else keep reading the topic title as "How many Tabs does your browser support" or is it just me?
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Firing up panorama I see groups with (in increasing order):
- 1 tab
- 3 tabs
- 4 tabs
- 4 tabs
- 4 tabs
- 5 tabs (my current browsing session)
- 5 tabs
- 5 tabs (collapsed into a pile)
- 6 tabs
- 6 tabs (collapsed into a pile)
- 6 tabs (collapsed into a pile)
- 7 tabs
- 10 tabs
- 11 tabs
- 12 tabs
- 18 tabs in a pile. (had to expand the group and scroll the tab bar to count them)
I also have another window, but that one's only got two tabs, one of which is this page.
I've installed Tree Style Tab yesterday.
I can't be bothered to check my other profile, but I'm guessing it has around 8 to 10 groups with between 3 to 7 tabs each.
Ask me about bookmarks later.
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I'm generally running multiple chrome windows with over a hundred tabs total. Most of those are used as little more than poor man's bookmarks. "Hmm, I haven't played this game in over a month, but still, I better keep these 5 tabs worth of forums, wikis and walkthroughs open, just in case I pick it up again".
Lately, I started using Simple Window Saver plugin to get rid of at least some of the cruft.
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I'm generally running multiple chrome windows with over a hundred tabs total.
Don't you have any trouble keeping them all open through system restarts and such?
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Weak men restart. We tab hoarders persist.
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Am I to understand that you don't restart your system?
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Am I to understand that you don't restart your system?
Not if I can help it. If I do, Chrome is generally pretty good at remembering what I had open and dilligently trying to reload everything for the first 5 minutes after startup.
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Just have the ones I open I need, so usually less than 10. Especially if any of those is Discurse.
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I'm generally running multiple chrome windows with over a hundred tabs total. Most of those are used as little more than poor man's bookmarks. "Hmm, I haven't played this game in over a month, but still, I better keep these 5 tabs worth of forums, wikis and walkthroughs open, just in case I pick it up again".
Same here. If I see something that might be interesting, I'll open it up in a tab. If it truly is interesting, I'll return to it. If I'm researching something, I'll open up all possible leads in various tabs, and generally only close them if I deem them truly irrelevant when I get around to reading that tab.
Periodically, I'll go through the tabs and close stuff that relates to no-longer relevant topics. Speaking of which, it starting to look like cleaning time again - I've got around 300 tabs open atm. :-/
Filed under: [thankfully, firefox saves and restores tabs when restarted]()
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Filed under: thankfully, firefox saves and restores tabs when restarted and only loads them when necessary
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Depends on what I've been doing, but 50+ isn't unusual. I seem to have decreased the number recently on this computer. Currently I have (two windows, one for landscape, one portrait; overlapped here for screencap convenience):
Obviously, some of those will be short-lived, especially/obviously, most of the oness with red ?!'s...
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ately, I started using Simple Window Saver plugin to get rid of at least some of the cruft.
How about
#BOOKMARKS
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How about
BOOKMARKS
That's what I would have thought would be most sensible. I'm surprised by how many people maintain a crazy number of tabs. We need @codinghorror to come and tell us who's doing it wrong.
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Bookmarks are a special sort of tabs that use no system resources at all.
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I think my plural/singular matchings just went haywires there.
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How about
BOOKMARKS
Bookmarks for me are like a graveyard. Once something goes there, I'm never looking at it again. I tell myself I will. The thought even crosses my mind. But I never do.
Also, can you bookmark a group of tabs? And then later easily unbookmark them?
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Bookmarks are a special sort of tabs that use no system resources at all.
Hmm. Someone might want to tell my filesystem then...
[pjh@lenovo tdwtf]$ ls -l /home/pjh/.mozilla/firefox/u90wzyy0.default-1395245343643/places.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 pjh pjh 73400320 Jul 17 13:58 /home/pjh/.mozilla/firefox/u90wzyy0.default-1395245343643/places.sqlite
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Mind if I flag you for pedantic dickweed? ^_^
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I have done.
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This is a level of pedantic dickweedery to which I aspire to reaching. It is not the dizzying heights of some other threads.
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Bookmarks for me are like a graveyard. Once something goes there, I'm never looking at it again.
On a widescreen, there's plenty of space for a bookmark sidebar to be open at all times.
Also, can you bookmark a group of tabs?
Not really.And then later easily unbookmark them?
You mean "delete"?
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I think he wants to be able to persist a group of pages to bookmarks, and then reopen them all as tabs again. I may be wrong though.
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Bookmarks are a special sort of tabs that use no system resources at all.
And are far less convenient. As I said in an earlier thread, Firefox's "lazy loading" + tab grouping + a good session manager = awesome browser.
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On a widescreen, there's plenty of space for a bookmark sidebar to be open at all times.
I prefer to zoom the page in.
I think he wants to be able to persist a group of pages to bookmarks, and then reopen them all as tabs again. I may be wrong though.
Yup. Don't everyone?
For example, few weeks ago I really got into ASP.NET Web API on OWIN. I had 10 tabs open, with various tutorials, references etc. Then I decided to try out flask instead. So what am I to do with my OWIN tabs? Create 10 separate bookmarks? And then later hunt them down individually?
Fuck that. I used to leave them open. With this extension, I save a group of tabs under a name OWIN. Then later I can get back exactly where I left off. Or I can delete them in bulk.
IMO the whole bookmark paradigm is broken. We need some maverick entrepreneur like @codinghorror to look into it and show us the correct way.
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Then I decided to try out flask instead.
Researching different options to select the one that's most appropriate for the problem you're trying to solve is Doing it WrongTM.
You should choose one technology and then stick with it until the bitter end.
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then reopen them all as tabs again.
Well, that's trivial in Firefox. Put the marks in a folder and middle-click the folder.
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So what am I to do with my OWIN tabs? Create 10 separate bookmarks?
Yeah.
Problem goes up when the number of tabs goes up, obviously.And then later hunt them down individually?
"hunt down" is a strange word to use for "they're all right there together"
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I know one person who used to have anywhere between 200 and 500 tabs open in Opera at once.
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I think he wants to be able to persist a group of pages to bookmarks, and then reopen them all as tabs again. I may be wrong though.
Firefox? Ctrl-Shift-E and Ctrl+(Shift+)`
You're welcome....
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I feel like I'm acting as the middle man here. I should be earning some kind of commission.
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Oh right, I forgot about that multidimensional tabs feature, because I never use it because it's a bit cumbersome to access and it's really easy to forget about tab spaces.
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Am I to understand that you don't restart your system?
I never reboot.... and it has nothing to do with keeping tabs open.
The only time my machine reboots is when a Windows Update requires it and won't stop until you do.
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The only time my machine reboots is when a Windows Update requires it and won't stop until you do.
Isn't that fairly frequent?
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Not really. Once a month if auto-update is on, but I have automatic updates turned off to prevent it from doing the auto-reboot shit to me when I'm not around. I patch when I see something critical in the list, or when decide I wanted to restart anyway.
It's not that big of a deal to reboot anymore though, with Win8 and an SSD drive it takes less time for Windows to load than it does for the motherboard to POST.
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A little late to the game, but ... um, I forgot while reading the rest of the topic, and I CBA to count them again ... I think it was 118 tabs in 16 Chrome windows. I don't currently have it open, but I have a FF session with, probably, a similar number. Some things (like TDWTF and some work-related stuff) are open in both, since I never use both at the same time; my computer has barely enough RAM to run one of them.
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Hmm. Someone might want to tell my filesystem then...
[pjh@lenovo tdwtf]$ ls -l /home/pjh/.mozilla/firefox/u90wzyy0.default-1395245343643/places.sqlite -rw-r--r-- 1 pjh pjh 73400320 Jul 17 13:58 /home/pjh/.mozilla/firefox/u90wzyy0.default-1395245343643/places.sqlite ```</blockquote> Dude. `-lh`, please! Also, I broke Dis...*zzzzzzz hurgm hmmm zzzz bored zzzzz*
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You make it sound like it takes effort to break Discourse.
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You make it sound like it takes effort to break Discourse.
Nah. At this point it's like finding a stick of gum in your glove compartment.
The hell is that thing? Is it something cool?
Oh. Gum.
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I'm sure that analogy would work better if I chewed gum or had a car in which to have a glove compartment. Or gloves to put in a glove compartment.
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It's TDWTF. Had to be a car analogy. But I couldn't think of anything mundane enough on it's own so I had to add the gum.
Incidentally, just like Discurse bugs, I don't look for gum either. But unlike gum I, nobody wants it when I offer it to them.
Where the hell is this going? I don't know, I'm tired and just trying to stay awake.
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Bookmarks are a special sort of tabs that use no system resources at all.
Yeah, but adding to bookmarks and closing a tab requires some conscious effort, as opposed to going through a page, middle clicking a few links, going to one of them, middle clicking some more, then maybe going back, etc.
Personally, I don't really close my tabs until they're so narrow I get lost.
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I don't understand the browsing behaviour that creates such a situation.
Pushing Operating System Limits
