Poll: How many tabs do you have open now?

Posted by brackin on Thursday August 18, 2011 @03:39PM
from the you-decide dept.

I always end up having anywhere between 10 - 25 tabs open at any time. I'm not sure if it's that I need to use Instapaper or get into bookmarking more but i'm interested in if anyone else is in a similar situation.

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1 - 5 28 votes

6 - 10 16 votes

11 - 20 29 votes

21 - 30 7 votes

31+ 16 votes

Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by brackin on Thursday August 18, 2011 @03:42PM (#2900740)

It's a mix of hating Delicious and Bookmarking not fitting with how I get things done. I feel like if I want to read something later I have to leave it open or I never will. When I bookmark or instapaper anything I never get back to reading it.

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by brackin on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:23PM (#2900933)

I just found some decent Delicious Desktop apps, seems like this will help as it's much more integrated with my workflow (should be) but still not perfect.

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by relix on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:48PM (#2901258)

On my desktop, 289, spread around 15 windows (Chrome takes up about 3GB of RAM) On my laptop, 120, spread around 3 windows (Chrome takes up about 1.5GB of RAM, (Mac OS X)performance gets really bad after 10 hours of running, and I usually restart Chrome a couple of times during the day because of this)

I use instapaper to "save and remove" articles from my tabs, so none of these are articles.

It's a real problem. I have regular "cleaning" sessions where I check every tab and determine its faith. But, much like trying to get inbox zero, this almost never completely works and soon it's ballooning again.

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by brackin on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:59PM (#2901322)

I feel the same, this morning I had like 60 within a few windows and already made my Macbook Pro become very slow. Especially because a few have flash video loaded or flash and HTML5 elements.

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by relix on Thursday August 18, 2011 @06:28PM (#2901413)

It's really pretty abysmal. I, too, have an MBP. There's 2GB free RAM left, and browsing is basically all I do, yet it feels continually sluggish. Makes you think you're using a netbook ;-)

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by lea on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:33PM (#2901185)

Around 50,

But the count can easily go up to 100+ with the help of firefox extensions like Tree Style Tabs and multiple browser windows.

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by zoowar on Thursday August 18, 2011 @03:53PM (#2900792)

This problem is already solved. Consider http://readitlaterlist.com/ or https://www.instapaper.com/

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by brackin on Thursday August 18, 2011 @04:00PM (#2900836)

It's not only a problem for reading, a lot of my tabs are not articles. Some are but some are useful projects, startups or things I may need which I want to look at later, but have no way to save at the moment.

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by hammock on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:10PM (#2901101)

The worst part is when Firefox gets to 500mb+ and I want to restart it to free up some memory. I used to save all the open URLs in a notepad file then reopen them, but lately I've just been killing the process then letting FF recover them itself... this is probably bad practice.

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Re:Poll: How many tabs do you have open now? by brackin on Thursday August 18, 2011 @05:33PM (#2901182)

Yes, i've got a Macbook Pro. Which i'd say is pretty fast. Having all these URLs makes chrome slow down until when typing I have to wait for it to catch up.

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