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Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by alfl on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:09PM (#27157657)
I've opened this in a tab and intend to read it later.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by Arrath on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:21PM (#27157843)
Doing this, and then never ever following up on it, was how I learned that Chrome on Android changes the tab count to ':D' once you go over 100 tabs open.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by cube2222 on Monday May 17, 2021 @05:46PM (#27188836)
Same, later I discovered that Safari on iOS has a 500 tab limit.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by CRConrad on Sunday May 16, 2021 @07:56AM (#27173051)
It's funny how Firefox for Android goes from 99 to 8... And they can't even get the eight the right way around, it's laid on its side.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by ksec on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:46PM (#27158191)
Same here, it is acting like a reading list. Mostly because Bookmark sucks.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by pessimizer on Friday May 14, 2021 @02:57PM (#27158336)
Fixing bookmarks would cure tab hoarders like me.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by sumtechguy on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:41PM (#27158861)
I use my tabs like a stack. The bookmarks are the long term overflow.

At the end of the day the stack is closed out or put into bookmarks for later looking at. I then have a set of folders of 'look at later'. If later is greater than some time period I just delete the whole folder. Once a month I look at the overflow. Most of the time it is more of a 'why did I care about this' and just blow it away. It is a variation of the empty mail box. Inbox needs to be done. Then the 'done' folder. There is no real stack or tree. That way lies madness (I have tried).

I try to keep my tabs in context of whatever I am doing. I max out about 10-20 (6 at the moment). Past anything like that and most of them are useless.

Bookmarks are for 'I know I will need this in the future' everything else I can search for again.

Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by jrcii2 on Friday May 14, 2021 @03:15PM (#27158541)
What have you tried? Just curious as I use Pocket and I am somewhat satisfied with it, though I rarely end up reading any of the articles I bookmark.
Re:Overcoming Tab Overload by pessimizer on Friday May 14, 2021 @05:30PM (#27159912)
I've never seen anything that gave me the impression that it would help, but at one point I was brainstorming a firefox extension a lot like the one described in the article, which is making me hopeful.