Had to check if this was a post from adhsmemes group.
What do browsers even let you do this? I feel like it should cap out at like 200 max. Nobody even needs 200 but there’s got to be some kind of limit somewhere.
200 is newbie numbers.
Damn, I start getting overwhelmed at 10
I had fifty open one day after working a tech related bug. I wasn’t getting anywhere so I closed it out and switched search engines. Less than thirty minutes later I and found a solution.
Too many tabs is a huge distraction. Its also a common thing to see if you are working tech support for a organization. I’ve seen well over a hundred tabs open on some users browsers.
If you can bg inactive tabs they just become another type of bookmark, because they don’t the up any memory
Then use bookmarks. We shouldn’t design around people using products completely incorrectly.
jesus. just use bookmarks.
Would Jesus’ bookmark be shaped like a cross (morbid) or a fish (practical)?
jesus looks like a slip of paper kinda guy
They do - https://lemmy.ml/post/33005112/19801519
can I watch an intervention for a tab addict
For the record (because I just looked it up, as I also have this problem): it’s
ctrl+tab, but only if you enable “Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order” in Settings first.Also, usually, ctrl + shift + tab goes the opposite way
It’s so odd to me that this isn’t the default behaviour for all browsers especially Edge. It’s literally alt+tab behaviour but for some reason browser designers decided it wouldn’t work that way.
This works in edge. Alt+tab also cycles between 2 tabs in edge if a previos tab was selected, or between windows if not. Which annoys the hell out of me, going from email to edge, switching to the tab I need to copy from and expecting alt+tab to bring me back to email and instead just goes back to the tab I didn’t want.
Ok that’s incredible. I’m gonna get so lost now I’ve changed that setting. Magnificent
Default behavior is for psychopaths.
I’m so confused every time I use a new browser.
surely bookmark exist, why not bookmark your opened page ?
i remembered my old friend who has tons of chrome tab filled with porn
i know that you’re suffering but, still, thanks for the laughter ! @[email protected]
Control+Shift+T restores the last closed tab. That solution works lol (but it really feels like it shouldn’t)
Dude answered his own question. Click random tab -> drag current tab off the window -> window returns to previous tab without any tabs being closed.
Unhinged behavior nonetheless
There are search in tab title extensions around, if your herding extension for the thousands of tabs not already supports that.
Pretty sure Firefox can search for open tabs directly from the Awesome Bar out of the box. Can’t remember the specific character that activates that filter on the bar. Maybe ^ or ~
Somebody else mentioned ‘%’ but even without that if the URL matches completely it will default to switching to an open tab with it already open.
Nope, seems like not.
Best start a new tab and Google whatever you were looking at.
My brain can’t handle more than a dozen open tabs. If I need more than 8 or so, I’ll sling some in another browser instance. I honestly don’t know if this is because I’m dumb or smart, but at my last jobs the smarter people always had about 2 dozen tabs open. LOL, no one ever rebooted.
I work with someone who never closes a tab. They’ll just keep plowing ahead until they literally have to reboot their computer for lack of resources. Physical clutter doesn’t bother me much, but I have to look away when they share their screen.
I had a user that did this with outlook emails all the time. Since she was in leadership, we had to put up with it. At one point we even had to escalate it to Microsoft and they came back saying that Outlook is simply not designed to be used in such a fashion. That did not dissuade the user at all. After maxing out the computer specs, she ended up exceeding the actual limitation of the software for resources used.
I think eventually she got fired for incompetence for other things. It was quite a relief.
For other things? That just speaks to the incompetence of the morons above her…
Firefox tabs survive reboots and waste about as much resources as a bookmark. Those people should really migrate.
You can set Firefox to purge everything when you close it, not sure why its not set as default
clearly they need more RAM
Isn’t it
alt + left? I could swear I’ve done it before (but maybe not on Firefox…?)That’s the back button
Crtl + L to go to address bar, type % then a space, then the tab you looking for. Will search open tabs
Helpful, but only works if I remember the name of the tab.
It’s either Facebook or Facebook.
Or TvTropes
My point exactly
In this I wish Firefox was more like Chromium. I use tab search a lot and Ctrl + Shift + A is much more efficient than this 3-step combo
- will let you search your bookmark. I think there might be one for history as well.
Plus there might be a similar macro in Firefox I just don’t know about
Maybe something like this?
This is why tab search is a thing 😭
But all I remember is that it was a possibly interesting page about the problem I’m dealing with. I have 42 tabs open on the same site, and none of them have useful names. If I google it I’ll end up with about 52 uselessly names tabs.
It is cathartic closing an entire window fullof tabs when the problem is dealt with though. You can almost hear the machine sigh as it releases a big chunk of memory.
