Of course I know him, he’s me.
So from a security mindset, this is a nightmare. This person must be a paid plant for Big Cross-Site-Tracking
This must be her “superpower base”
I have no idea why anyone would do that, but for the bookmark collectors, checkout “404 bookmarks” which detects websites that are down.
Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though
Like the Neil Peart of internet surfing!
Having a way to automatically use an archived version would be lit though
Or at least to automatically make the archive!
A few years ago I tried to use ArchiveBox for this purpose, but it had problems, and development didn’t happen much since then.
Then recently I have found Linkwarden. That also seems to be a tackled together solution, like the installation instructions and not just unclear but also incorrect, and the real steps are weird…
Bit it seems to work so far. It can’t handle multiple versions of a website nicely, but at least you can submit the same site multiple times, with some minimum time limit.
Haven’t figured out yet how to easily forward links to it from my phone, though.
That ain’t no power user, that’s a lazy tech who needs to clean up after himself and close a browser window every once in awhile.
Everyone uses tech in their own way.
You and I might only have a few tabs open, this person has a lot.
It’s easy to be critical of them, but whatever.
Maybe it’s like saving shortcuts or files to the desktop. Seems ridiculous but if that’s how nan wants to do it who cares.
ill only judge them for not simply using bookmarks
I don’t use bookmarks
but why
why would I?
organization
organise what?
Yeah, I have a mental cutoff somewhere around 200 tabs. I don’t count them, but I routinely so a “close to the right” and get 100+ in the “are you sure” pop-up. I do this about every week or two… And yes, I close a lot of tabs as I go.
I just close them every day when I shut down my PC.
If I need one back I just re-open them.
If one of them really is that important that I need it multiple time, I create a bookmark for it.
Sometimes I even close my browser multiple times a day in order to clear all cookies since that is the easiest way. (Firefox setting)
Of course the tabs would just come back up next time they open the browser window again. Can’t risk losing those precious tabs, there might be an important one among them.
Signed, a tab hoarder.
As a previous tab hoarder, excessive use of bookmarks is the answer. Organized is more useful, but even a single bookmark folder for all of your “I’ll need this later” tabs will do wonders for you, and being a bookmark hoarder is so much more functional than being a tab hoarder. You can actual reset your browser every once in a while.
Bookmarks are not a safe way to store links, as I have learned. Every URL can only be present in a single bookmark, and an addon can mess it all up if it decides to create new bookmarks for links that you have already bookmarked. It’s location (the bookmark directory) and tags are lost, and if the addon decides to delete the bookmark that it has made, the link itself is lost too.
Why not both? I currently have around 400 tabs open, and I cant even count how many bookmarks I have.
But then I’ll have to take an explicit action to keep my tab! I’d much rather have no action required to save that tab that I’m likely to never visit again.
Herself. Did you read the article?
Ctrl-h has entered the chat
History search sucks.
McDonalds Power User Keeps 7,400+ drive through bags in back seat for 2 years!
Should try that in chrome
Damn, that’s a lot of tabs.
I understand it since switching to vertical tabs via Sidebery. You can organize them into panels/groups/nested hierarchy, and tabs are only reloaded when you open them, so it’s not as if you maintain 7k tabs in RAM. Think of it more like bookmarks that are actually organized and useful. It’s what bookmarks might have been if not for Pocket.
Not heard of sidebery, but totally relate as a Tree Style Tabs user. That and multi account containers means I regularly have a couple hundred tabs per window…
I dunno if I should be honored or terrified to know such people walk amongst us mortals.
im a scrub with just around 1k and opening and closing my browser a few times a week.
Rookie numbers tbh.
That’s barely two projects that I won’t event finish worth of research.
Average night when you accidentally open tvtropes.
How is that a “power user”? That’s just a poor way to use the browser. It’s basically just 7400 bookmarks in one long list; you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
A power user would use something called “bookmarks” to organise that better.
Sidebery entered the chat
you can’t even group/nestle book marks on Firefox.
You can with extensions. Tree Style Tabs, I dont even have a top tab bar.
HoardersHousehold power usersWhat an idiot, thats why I have 7,400 bookmarks that I never intend to sort.
Once you realize that you don’t sort or ever even revisit them, you can start using the browsing history to serve the same purpose.
Then you realize bookmarks and history are worse than keeping the tabs
That’s where I finally arrived at. I used to use browser bookmarks a lot, but I realized I either never used them or spent way too much time sorting them (so searching the Internet became faster). I tried history, but that sucks when I have like 100/day.
Tabs work, and Firefox can point to an open tab in the omni-bar, so why not use it? So I often have 100-200 tabs open on an average day, and occasionally clean that down to 10-ish (I’m often back up to 50 by the end of the day). Vanilla Firefox has pretty good tab management features (shift+click to select a range, close to the right, the drop down menu on the right, tab pinning, tabs open across devices, etc).
That’s an interesting way to use that feature. Must be because we use the same app in very different ways.
For me, the tabs contain only the things that I need today. Having a tab older than 3 days is very rare. Bookmarks contain only a few links, but I actually visit them frequently, so they sit in the bookmark bar. History contains everything else, and I don’t visit that place very often. When I need to dig through the history, I just sort it by last visited and use a search word to filter out the irrelevant stuff.
It wasn’t always like this, but here’s what works for me these days. In the past I had a list of curated bookmarks, but eventually I realized I don’t really need them for anything.
The thing is, I use something like 30+ new tabs every day. Half of them are temporary, so I close most of them, but the other half need to stick around for 2-3 days (sometimes longer) because they’re relevant to what I’m working on.
After a project, I rarely need to refer back to them, so there’s no sense bookmarking them. So I usually only need tabs for 5-10 days. So I just leave them open until the project is done, and then close everything en masse. Usually that’s 50+, but sometimes around 200, depending on the project.
And here am I, getting twitchy the moment the tab size shrinks. I can’t imagine having so many tabs open.
It’s bad enough my brain already does that by itself
Imagine if you accidentally hit “reload all”…
Even pressing to close tabs on the left would take some serious time
Or even worse: close all
“restore last session”
Same thing will happen I guess. You melt your computer.
