I have 218 browser tabs open

Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by insightcheck on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:07PM (#32312676)

Let's say you're writing a research paper. You start with an introductory review paper that links to dozens of other sources. You want to evaluate whether these sources are relevant to your paper's topic, so you open them all in new tabs. Then they have other references, so you open those too. Over the course of a couple hours, you might have over 20 tabs you've opened. You then stop opening new tabs, and read them one at a time until you're done. A similar process can happen when doing research for an in-depth blog post, opinion article, or essay (except instead of starting with a review paper, you might start with one or more pages of Google search results).

Outside of work, you might sign up for several emailed newsletters with various links to articles per email. If you get about 20 newsletter emails, and you choose to read 10 of them with 2-3 interesting articles each, you end up with 20+ tabs to read through.

However, if you don't need to do that much research for a particular task (or you can get the information you need from just a few resources like a quality book), you may not encounter a need to open this many tabs.

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by reportgunner on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @04:54AM (#32316483)

> so you open them all in new tabs

but why ? you can't read them at the same time anyway, why not just save the links and open them one by one ?

When I want to binge watch a whole series of a show I don't open all of the episodes at the same time in separate windows because I'm planning to watch them all in one session.

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by rasz on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @07:41AM (#32317406)

> save the links

thats how we use Tabs, after browser restart the Tabs dont reload, they are suspended and act as a bookmark that you can constantly see to remind you.

>binge watch a whole series ... don't open all of the episodes

erm, I download whole season/series, so that I do have 'all of the episodes' in a folder under my fingertips.

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by reportgunner on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:35AM (#32317711)

> thats how we use Tabs

I can understand that, but I would argue that you can just use a separate browser window for that, as I do.

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by taskforcegemini on Wednesday August 03, 2022 @02:05AM (#32328164)

a lot of us use multiple tabs on multiple browserwindows (I'd rather not say how many)

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by knolan on Monday August 01, 2022 @06:20PM (#32312833)

When I’m writing a paper I’ll download the PDFs of relevant papers to a subfolder of my TeX document’s folder and start building a bibliography with links to those PDFs in BibDesk. Much easier to find stuff and not have to worry about forgetting something.

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by xtiansimon on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:06AM (#32317535)

This is how I’ve used the browser for years.

What I don’t understand is why someone will have scores of tabs open _all the time_. And at work these same people are always leaving work for the day while still logged in to shared assets which prevent others from accessing or weekly backups. Same with shared Excel files. Oh! And they leave those annoying app launchers on their desktops like it’s 1997, rather than using the toolbar.

I think if I could see their desk it would be buried with old food wrappers and coffee cups.

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by throwawaysleep on Tuesday August 02, 2022 @08:41AM (#32317764)

> I think if I could see their desk it would be buried with old food wrappers and coffee cups.

Yes. These will pile up for days too before one big cleaning. Or at least did when I went to the office.

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Re:I have 218 browser tabs open by nunez on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:29PM (#32429088)

The way I deal with information sprawl (lots of stuff I want to read, but I can't right now) is to move it to a Reading List where I can prioritize and archive each entry as I read them. For me, tabs are things I need right now; I close them when I'm done with them.

I usually don't have any tabs left when I'm done with the day and usually don't exceed more than ten tabs.

My main browser is Safari, but when I use Firefox (on my work machine) I also use tab-less and Amethyst to have all of my pages on my screen. This way, I'm more aggressive about only keeping what I need and closing what I don't.

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