• ignism@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I really don’t understand people who don’t close tabs. I start with a fresh browser window multiple times per day.

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      8 months ago

      We start with a fresh browser window multiple times per day too. Except we also have multiple other windows of tabs minimized already.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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        8 months ago

        This reminds me that I once “accidentally” closed about half of those windows - each ~200 tabs - of my then GF. Took her over a month to notice. Tells you all about how useful tab hoarding actually is.

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      8 months ago

      You might still need those tabs though. You probably don’t, but you might.

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        8 months ago

        You’re right, I don’t. And since browsers come with this really neat feature called “history”, it’s not like I couldn’t trivially re-open them again as needed.

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          8 months ago

          It’s far easier to have your history cluttered than you might think, and then finding the sites that you need or might need becomes harder.

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          8 months ago

          Yeah but you might forget that you need those tabs. Maaaybe they weren’t that important then, but maybe they are.

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            8 months ago

            I think that “weren’t that important” indeed hints at how I keep/toss stuff IRL, too.

            I toss a lot of shit. I don’t keep stuff around for that one hypothetical use case that might crop up in 5 years. Most stuff sells surprisingly well second-hand, and this frees up a lot of money I had otherwise lying around doing fuck all for me.

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      8 months ago

      I don’t have enough time in the day or week or month or year to do everything I want to, so I keep my tabs open until I chip away at them one at a time. It takes a long time, but it doesn’t mean that the tabs aren’t useful to me and won’t remain useful months later.

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        8 months ago

        That’s me with YouTube videos, sometimes I would see a video on recommended that interests me but don’t have time to watch it immediately, I have to open it on a new tab otherwise I would never find it again. Sometimes it takes me days to find the time to watch it.

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          8 months ago

          You can add interested videos to playlist “Watch later” and it will available on all devices with your account

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            8 months ago

            I don’t log in to YT to watch any videos, I alao use Newpipe and Stube sans account. Grouping them in Tabs to get to is great for me.

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        8 months ago

        Why not just bookmark the tabs? Put them in a folder in your bookmark bar called “To Do” or something and they’d all be right there.

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      8 months ago

      A handy to when it comes to closing tabs: mouse wheel down anywhere on the tab label closed the tab, no need to find the little ‘x’.

      Related: mouse wheel down on a link opens that link in a new tab.

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      8 months ago

      I have one tab per email account. A few for github issues I’m waiting to be fixed. One which is some random search I just use as reminder. None of which I have closed in months. I literally have a script to boot them up on my second monitor everytime I boot my pc.