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How many tabs?
(No this isn't about LSD. But that would be a good thread too.)
How many browser tabs do you have open RIGHT NOW?
me:
Chrome: 38
IE8: 3
I get kinda freaked out when I can't restore my tabs after a crash. Like I've lost a little piece of my soul.
How many browser tabs do you have open RIGHT NOW?
me:
Chrome: 38
IE8: 3
I get kinda freaked out when I can't restore my tabs after a crash. Like I've lost a little piece of my soul.
Comments
At home I'll do more like 10, but my computer has lately a tendency to crash... need more RAM I think? Too much photo processing?
what exactly is the purpose of having many tabs open at once? am i missing something?
Window 2: 2
my lady friend always has like 30 tabs open, which I think is silly.
Firefox has gotten to the point where it never loses my tabs in any crash, so it's the only one I actually trust. Too bad it's also slower than the others.
I'm at the point where if I want to quit Firefox, I just force quit it, because it's faster and it never fucks up when it restores.
I generally just have one. One window open.
If I am looking at a site like a news site or something, sometimes I'll go through the headlines and open the stories I want to read in new tabs, then go through the tabs one by one. But that's it for multiple tabs. Unless I'm doing research for a paper or class. Or shopping! I'll have 30 tabs open when shopping, easy.
I guess I just answered my question.
I have a very low number of tabs open right now. 7 in one window, 5 in the other. But I have twenty bookmark folders of "bookmark all open tabs" waiting for me to read, someday. Probably 800 tabs.
I use them to keep track of everything I want to do, be, read, know, have, and explore. Which means they just keep piling up. If I close one without reading it then I feel like a failure, but if I read the page it will just spawn more tabs as I find other things that interest me. So I'm trapped in an unending pile of tabs, stretching towards the horizon on every side.
Part of me wants to develop a technological solution to this (browser history combined with mindmapping hosted in the cloud and delivered via browser plug-in) but I think that's the same part of me that hoards tabs.
For the reason that zin said, sometimes I'll open a bunch of windows of stuff I need to read, but they just sit there, and so I find using using makes me deal with stuff more immediately. Tabs = undercover clutter.
exactly!
I'M A DUMMY!
1. very few tabs, and these are closed as soon as content is consumed.
2. I line up all my windows graphically so they are straight. I don't know why.
3. I do this thing where if I'm reading an article I highlight each sentence with my cursor. I think this just helps differentiate the current line I'm reading visually, to counteract my dyslexic mind. If I don't do it I'll get lost. To my knowledge I'm the only person I know that does this. It's weird that I don't have this issue with printed matter though?
4. addendum: I also like a clean desktop. As a sometimes editor person I have to be pretty organized, and somehow a clean desktop (no files, only boot / external drives) exemplifies this feeling in my mind.
I leave the clutter for my kitchen.
GET IN
Sometimes I spend 2 hours just plowing through all of the tabs, one after the other, so I just don't have to look at them anymore.
Why can't I just close them? Why, INTERNET, do you tempt me with your vast plains of information?
I don't wanna know everything.
:(
IN SCHOOL!
Struggle for me! I try to remember but high school programmed 2 into me and my hands just do it on their own sometimes.
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you owe me a coke
My wife does this -- I thought she was the only one! Her method is to triple-click to highlight each paragraph as she goes. So many clicks. She also refuses to tap-click the trackpad so it sounds like someone writing a novel via telegraph.
I try to keep it under 70.
do you just have a lot of sub-folders or whatever? Inbox for me is like an extension of to-do list. I can't put it away or I'll forget. I don't know. 70 seems high now that I'm writing it.
One space after period!!?????!!! That's crazy
:(
@Marc_Zuckerburg; FYI you can set Chrome to always remember your tabs via Wrench Icon > Preferences, On Startup click "Reopen pages that were open last".
@KMikeyM; I believe in the idea of No Junk Drawers, I really do! I'm even trying GTD right now via Evernote. But it's so hard for me. I feel more comfortable with my papers piled on the desk and my inbox in the 1000s. Everything at my fingertips, right?
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