They're all vital

I turned my tab habit into a bookmark habit. Equally useful (ie not very), but far less messy.

Bookmarks are too permanent. Tabs are for things I'm interested in but don't really care about (and so I'll probably never get back to). I use different windows for different types of things, so it's organized. I just have an alias to kill Firefox when I want to game.
- Creating and deleting bookmarks is simple. You're just lazy.
  And that's OK; it's a victimless as a crime gets. Just own it.
yeah IDK how the fuck tabs overtook bookmarks as the way to save websites. i got into the bookmarking before tabs were even a thing. seeing people with 6 year old tabs amongst the thousands makes me dizzy. there's so so much better of a way...
This is the way, van even organize into categories. I've never understood the appeal of having 400+ tabs open in a browser all the time.
I tried that for a minute but it didn't flow for me, now I use an extension (tab stash) that does basically the same thing but ✨prettier✨

Not a fan of using a school shooter as a meme format

I wouldn’t have known had you not said this. Never saw this image before.
- I didn't know until just now either. I actually assumed this was from that Making a Murderer documentary.
Do you think people use it because they don't know it's origin?
yeah, thats kinda not good. i didn't know what the guy did, i saw a couple of scenes where he tried to plead insanity to get out of his responsibillity. thank you for bringing this up.
Well he's not actively shooting so it is ok

I'm the opposite. I'm a compulsive window and tab closer. I say I regret closing a tab or window about 30% of the time.

Ctrl+Shift+T to reopen the tab!
- Alright let me do that
  Ctrl+Shift+T
  Ctrl+Shift+T
  Ctrl+Shift+T
  Ctrl+Shift+T
  Ah dang it I must've used that tab to search for something else. Oh well
- Oh I know. Learned that one years ago. Thanks though!
- Also in Firefox, when using multi-window + multi-tab browsing, if you close a window without closing all of its tabs, you can press Ctrl+Shift+N in a remaining window (of the same Profile) to reopen closed window, which will now have all the tabs that you closed the window with. You can then again press Ctrl+Shift+T on the reopened window to restore its closed tabs.
how do you do it ?
- The little x in the corner
- There's always the history menu.
- Bookmarks
- Not OP, but it's learned discipline plus I can pretend I'm better than my way-too-many-tabs-open, loser co-workers.

...I closed 1500 tabs a couple weeks ago...

Each tab must have been one micron wide, how did you even expect to be able to click on a specific one in the future with that many open - wait, I think I've answered my own question.
- They have a minimum width and then you can scroll
- To be fair, they were spread across 3 windows. 900 tabs on my general window, 400 on my work window, and 200 on my home server window
- Vertical tabs. I have a plugin on Firefox that lists tabs vertically and they're also stacked so tabs opened in a tab get nested in that tab. I can't remember the name, but I'll update this comment with it when at my computer if anyone wants it.
- what do you mean?
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/
  or
  https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sidebery/
  i even have a search bar to search between my own tabs.
- What did you even expect I'd use my 50" ultrawide monitor for?
On purpose?!

Isn't that the school shooter kid that tried to evade prison time on the account of being criminally insane? Idiot faked "hearing voices" and suicidal thoughts and did so badly at that. The whole interview is a cringefest.

What pretending to be crazy looks like, from our favorite channel JCS - Criminal Psychology.
- While I believe that video has merit, I'd like to bring attention to münecat's essay on it (and other "body language" vids), because there is chance Jim's analysis is not accurate https://youtu.be/Y0VQyEY-B2I
- Exactly. Binged all of their videos, they are actually informative and well-researched. But the topic is not appealing to advertisers, so YouTube had to bully them off the site.

Average Internet user forgetting there's a bookmark button

shut up. your not my tab supervisor!

Emotional support tabs

I hate having any more tabs open than I absolutely need. Right now, I have none. I'm probably gonna either fire up a YouTube video or find someone to watch on Twitch here in a minute, at which point I'll have one tab open. I'm not gonna say exactly how much RAM I have, but I have as much RAM as my motherboard will take, so I can definitely afford to open more than one tab. I just don't see any reason to, frankly, and it drives me up the wall.

Why so secretive of your ram?
- Okay, fine. I have 192 GB of RAM.

Why are you calling me out like this? What did I ever do to you?

Possibly... maybe not the ones from kbin.social though 😢

I love the instance burns on Lemmy. There should be a whole /c for this somewhere. It’s like the yo momma jokes of the fediverse.
- At the beginning of the year, the main developer, Ernest, was dealing with health issues (without details). The project has not had activity recently because of that, and it is not known much more. We wish him the best tho.

They do, and I'm tired of pretending I'm not

I closed 2000 tabs today. That leaves me with the extremely small number of 4000 tabs. Yeah I use Firefox sync. 😎

Can't you just close all of them? Go though and close every one of those suckers.
- No way I might need one of those in the next 9 months or so.

You'll pry my tabs and red stapler out of my cold dead hands.

i'm offended

Yeah, I agree
I didn't cone here to be personally attacked, jeez!

Aaaaabsolutely.

That being said, the only thing that's getting close to my Sidebery tree tabs is LogSeq's graph, and it's a close competition. Might end up using the two simultaneously

I feel attacked

So there's the 100% safe option or the option that can just lose everything from a single missclick and people are still chancing it?

Um... there is a browsing history. It stores all the links. :)

I'd rather just confess to the murder
- ...of crows? What do you want to confess to them? 😶

Yes, and I absolutely need the same tab three or four+ times. It helps with navigation and not having to remember positions in the 70+ stack of tabs where something is.

Me visiting any browser community on Lemmy.

I really hate how my computer slows down after I open ten thousand tabs
bookmarks don't work for me
- Does anyone have an extension for sorting, saving, and downloading hundreds of thousands of tabs? If I close the tab I lose access to that information forever. I need these tabs for work, school, my kids school, my banking info, my hospital visits, court dates, and that IM tab I had opened that one time I first used tabs.
  Make it make sense.

The amount of tabs I have open reflects the status of my mind

What number is AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH?
- About 11111111888888888888888888

Yes. And if that turns out to be wrong, I'll close some of them when I run out of tabs that can be opened in a day or so.

this guy is a bad guy

This is me with browser bookmarks on my phone. It takes me 10 seconds to scroll through the list. Literally. I timed it just now

Rookie numbers etc etc
(I have categories of tabs on desktop, and different browsers of tabs on mobile, that grow until I forward them to the desktop, where I then convert them to bookmarks on one of my servers, categorically [e: Linkding]; and the cycle repeats. I have something like 500 tabs on desktop, a couple hundred on mobile, and several thousand on the bookmark list. Even with tags, date/times and search, it's still looking through a trove. From porn to home security, server hardware to virtualization, I can link you to a specific item after I find it in 3 to 5 business days.)

The amount of upvotes on this post are far less than the amount of my open tabs - per user profile, per browser. 😎

Absolute mad lad

Sometimes I go back to the tabs and finish what I was doing on that page.

I open new tabs in separate windows

I refuse to change! Instead i found a way to save and label all this potentially vital knowledge using selfhosted Wallabag.

The deal is: even if I only revisit 5%, it will still be worth it! I believe this has made me a better person.

I now have installed an auto tab discarter extension, so I can keep all those tabs open without using too many resources but still be able to go back to them when I need to.

So... Bookmarks?
- I use bookmarks for stuff that I know that I will some day in the future want to go back to. I don't bookmark every link I open, because I want my bookmarks to only have the "good stuff", ie. stuff that I know I will need often or in the future.

Literally me (having several hundred tabs currently open and over a thousand a while ago before I spent several days just closing them).

Yesterday I closed around 10 tabs in one of the windows I have opened and am super proud. Been delaying it for probably a year or more already. My dream is to reach the point where I have just a window again with some tabs. I managed to close one of the windows with hundreds of tabs 1 or 2 months ago.

So you managed to click the little "X" at the top of the window?

This is such a problem we now have tab groups to fully organize our spontaneous flirtations with once-shiny links.

So your trying to parse my tabs to extract information to exploit me with you say?

Yeah, only my browser can do that!

Oi! Don't mess up my tab stacks and browser workspaces, I just rearranged them!

"you can't arrange by penis"

vertical tabs reinforce this delusion in me

Y'all weird. Just close your browser when you're done. It won't take long to get back to where you were I promise.

Sorry that's just not feasible
half the users on the Firefox community

well seeing as i dont remember whats in them, yeah. One of them is probably something to do with CoW backups. I think.

Demon. Voice. Aaaah

No but some of them do, and I'm not about to sort through all these things to tell which is which.

i just go crazy on the tabs and close them all at the end of the day. if an important tab got lost, then i can just find it through my browser history

This meme just makes me miss Jim Can't Swim videos on youtube.

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