Ask HN: How many tabs do you have open? I'm curious if the number of tabs has increased over the years. Check your tabs now - how many do you have open? How many do you average? Do you go looking through your tabs regularly, or start a new one? If you have chrome + a mac, click on 'Tab' and you can see! Thought of this from... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8163788 |
Note that this session and most sessions anywhere near 500 tabs to have most of the tabs' renderers killed so really it never actually had all of its tabs loaded.
My wife on the other hand has ":D" number of tabs open as this is the number chrome shows on mobile after you hit 100.
We live in a happy marriage but once she is over 1000 tabs I'll consider divorce ;)
The tab counter shows ":D", but I knew the number because I once accidentally closed all tabs and quickly restored them, so the browser told me that I had closed ~1500 tabs.
Let's not talk about the number of tabs and windows on my computer :D
I'm keeping them because I remember stumbling upon some interesting links that are hard to find again, and which require further action (like buying a book), so I'm planning to return to them in the future.
As they grow, I copy any "important" URLs to a text file or related Markdown notes, to which I return occasionally to grep or organize. I mercilessly close tabs/windows to minimum necessary for current focus. It's a harsh environment, ensuring the least distraction, and only the best URLs survive long-term. Most are forgotten or lost, leaving just a memory if any.
Firefox has been good, providing great performance inspite of my shenanigans.
Now I use a tab counting extension and a tab limiter extension to keep myself in check. The limit is 200. I find having too many tabs distracting nowadays.
Has anyone tried using Chrome's tab groups feature? What do you think of it?
https://www.blog.google/products/chrome/manage-tabs-with-goo...
a) they drain memory and slow down the system b) but more importantly: more cards distract you and make it harder to find what you are looking for = worse productivity and quality
Today, 87.