My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information

Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by soulofmischief on Friday January 06, 2023 @01:55PM (#34279155)

700 open tabs... Try 7000.... I have tabs all the way back from 2014 open right now on one of my firefox instances (probably have ~15 Firefox windows open across devices rn) which I have migrated between multiple machines along with my user profile, and I'm telling you I'm gonna get to them any day now.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by alx__ on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:40PM (#34279814)

> and I'm telling you I'm gonna get to them any day now

I feel this deeply

The compromise I found was just to dump them into my bookmarking service. If I really really need to find that thing again, it's saved somewhere. 99% of the time it's just digital ephemera and I try to let it go and close the tab.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by Luc on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:12PM (#34279383)

I have 272x tabs open, 170x in my main window. I have been using Tab Session Manager to save and then close windows. Try it, you can always restore the window later.

(the x in the numbers is because the display overflows haha)

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by aborsy on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:51PM (#34280011)

How much ram does that take? I find Firefox problematic after around 10 tabs.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by Luc on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:27PM (#34280553)

Don't know, not enough to cause trouble on my 16GB Mac Mini m1, with 10 other apps open as well.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by kevin_thibedeau on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:23PM (#34280498)

Firefox doesn't load inactive tabs after a restart. They're just low overhead database entries.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by soulofmischief on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:12PM (#34282722)

Tab Session Manager is essential, as all of us Firefox users know how bad Firefox is at randomly trashing your tab sessions. I've nearly given myself a heart attack a few times over the years.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by switchbak on Friday January 06, 2023 @02:52PM (#34280012)

I think the zero inbox folks would have a heart attack. Impressive you can maintain the tab state that long!

I usually have max 100 open, but I reboot all the time (for power mgmt reasons) and use OneTab so that seems to solve my hoarding tendencies. That and keeping searchable local notes / using history / bookmarking the really good ones that I'll also never read.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by pbhjpbhj on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:27PM (#34280558)

I keep zero inbox at work as much as I can and have a couple of hundred tabs open on various desktops (91 tabs on this mobile alone; far more on desktop).

To me they're just different organisational methods that work well in different contexts.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by soulofmischief on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:16PM (#34282758)

> Impressive you can maintain the tab state that long!

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m... is absolutely crucial.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by comboy on Friday January 06, 2023 @03:13PM (#34280356)

Very impressive.

I think it could be solved better browsers history. One idea - star pages - not adding to favorites, just marking them so that you could browse history of those separately. It could also show list of the latest stars in the new tab window for example.

Currently bookmarks, in firefox at least, as far as I can tell, cannot be even browsed by date.

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Re:My Bad Habit of Hoarding Information by soulofmischief on Friday January 06, 2023 @06:14PM (#34282743)

I said screw it and am building a PWA and suite of bookmarklets/extensions. Idk what else to do, I have to escape this nightmare.

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