some projects take longer than an hour and I don’t want to go through the effort of bookmarking stuff when they’re already neatly organized into tab groups
I learned of tab sleeping in another reply. Having all of that juggling in RAM would be the downside, but apparently that feature takes care of that. I haven’t looked into it yet or learned about it, still just going off someone mentioning it.
Although for me if it’s important enough to need to keep around, I would bookmark it anyway because I never trust reopening to bring everything back.
yeah the sleeping is a bit annoying at times when you want the page loaded in the background, but that’s a tradeoff I’m willing to take for having everything just there and organized and mostly ready to view. and with bookmarks I’d have to reload the page anyways, so it’s not like that gets around it
it has to be categorized and then deleted after. and when I want to access it, I have to pick it out of bookmarks, and do that for every page I want to see.
or, I could just leave them in a tab group and close the group in a week or two, meanwhile they’re all nicely accessible and ordered
I cannot comprehend the idea of someone whose attention span doesn’t last longer than taking a piss and who has a visceral reaction to a computer-rendered filling cabinet analogy telling me I need meds.
I have sets of things in working on over time. Some windows are for misc stuff, some have game info, some have things I’m looking at buying but haven’t yet, etc. Why would I want to do the work of finding those pages again rather than letting the computer do what it’s designed to do and save to disk.
You said I needed meds, I say you don’t have a working short term memory…maybe we’re both wrong, maybe just you’re wrong, but I’m ok with those odds.
It sounds like your entire argument is that you organize open tabs using alternative tools to people who use tabs. You use a bookmark, I leave the tab open. You seemingly only shop for things in one store (if you can leave it in the cart), I do not.
Leaving all that open is obviously not making your computer sad. That reflects a misunderstanding of how computers work. Does Firefox take 10 gb of ram if you let it? Of course. But thankfully there’s tab sleeping…it’s like a bookmark except the tab is still there.
It’s not a coping mechanism for adhd. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some correlation but I can’t even think of what part of adhd this is supposed to be coping for.
I don’t think you’re normal, the majority of the people I know both in work and life have more than 5 tabs open.
I presented one specific scenario/use case that I find completely ridiculous, intimating it was an ADHD symptom that one would need a better medical therapy to get past. That was exaggeration. I realize that doesn’t necessarily come across via text comments with strangers.
I hadn’t heard of “tab sleeping” either, so knowing that does blow that issue away. So I concede that point.
And I don’t use just one store. You can leave things in however many carts you have accounts for. Personally I rarely take longer than one browsing session to purchase something, but I understand that’s not necessarily everybody.
The longest (and most complicated, speaking of tab usage) browser process I’ve ever done was when I built my last computer. I used 3 different stores just for that, and took a couple days to finalize the final choices of parts, but even then I didn’t keep them all open.
And if tab sleeping really does fix the resource issue, then I’m not even arguing this process is better or worse anymore, aside from just opening up articles without ever actually reading them.
I can probably use my fingers to count how many times I’ve needed multiple windows in my life (and I’m old now in Internet years), and double digit quantities of tabs is probably barely a bigger number.
Personally, organizing and keeping track of that many things open would drive me nuts.
Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.
No it doesnt. Take it from someone who has a dozen of browser windows open at all times with at least the same amount of tabs in each of those. I figured out how to close Firefox so it restarts with all previous windows again.
But it will only load those tabs once I click on them and even has a feature to unload tabs again.
My personal shitty method has the downside, that each window will have an active tab that will be loaded at startup, but I work around that by always having an empty tab in each window to take that place.
Doesn’t use noticeably more RAM or CPU that way, than a typical browsing session.
Not sure how much good closing and opening windows is then. If you close a window, those tabs are supposedly fine, but if you have “dozens” and close 2, what happens when you open a new one?
You have some kinda choice to resurrect a specific window? Or do you just run one window of every browser in existence?
I literally cannot comprehend this. What are you keeping in these things?
If any of you are playing games, and I know you are, there’s no way those games aren’t slideshows.
Sooo literally how?
If I leave the computer for longer than taking a piss, the browser is closed. Zero tabs.
I get actually uncomfortable with more than 5 or so open.
At least at home. Work computers I can understand because you gotta do whatever you’re doing, but even then double digit amounts seems actually crazy.
If you’re just opening them thinking “I’m gonna read this article” and just leave it, then you gotta get some better meds.
some projects take longer than an hour and I don’t want to go through the effort of bookmarking stuff when they’re already neatly organized into tab groups
like, if there’s no downside… why not?
I learned of tab sleeping in another reply. Having all of that juggling in RAM would be the downside, but apparently that feature takes care of that. I haven’t looked into it yet or learned about it, still just going off someone mentioning it.
Although for me if it’s important enough to need to keep around, I would bookmark it anyway because I never trust reopening to bring everything back.
yeah the sleeping is a bit annoying at times when you want the page loaded in the background, but that’s a tradeoff I’m willing to take for having everything just there and organized and mostly ready to view. and with bookmarks I’d have to reload the page anyways, so it’s not like that gets around it
“the effort of bookmarking stuff” 🤯
it has to be categorized and then deleted after. and when I want to access it, I have to pick it out of bookmarks, and do that for every page I want to see.
or, I could just leave them in a tab group and close the group in a week or two, meanwhile they’re all nicely accessible and ordered
I cannot comprehend the idea of someone whose attention span doesn’t last longer than taking a piss and who has a visceral reaction to a computer-rendered filling cabinet analogy telling me I need meds.
I have sets of things in working on over time. Some windows are for misc stuff, some have game info, some have things I’m looking at buying but haven’t yet, etc. Why would I want to do the work of finding those pages again rather than letting the computer do what it’s designed to do and save to disk.
Not sure where the attention span zing came from, but if it’s something I’m working on, it’s filled in a to do list of some sort.
If I’m considering a purchase, it’s either in a cart or on a wish list, or has a bookmark.
Leaving all that open is just making your computer sad.
Like I get the fact that ADHD is a whole thing, I’m just saying I can’t personally grasp how using this coping mechanism works.
I understand having questions like this, but from a somewhat more quote unquote “normal” pov, I can’t understand it.
You said I needed meds, I say you don’t have a working short term memory…maybe we’re both wrong, maybe just you’re wrong, but I’m ok with those odds.
It sounds like your entire argument is that you organize open tabs using alternative tools to people who use tabs. You use a bookmark, I leave the tab open. You seemingly only shop for things in one store (if you can leave it in the cart), I do not.
Leaving all that open is obviously not making your computer sad. That reflects a misunderstanding of how computers work. Does Firefox take 10 gb of ram if you let it? Of course. But thankfully there’s tab sleeping…it’s like a bookmark except the tab is still there.
It’s not a coping mechanism for adhd. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were some correlation but I can’t even think of what part of adhd this is supposed to be coping for.
I don’t think you’re normal, the majority of the people I know both in work and life have more than 5 tabs open.
I presented one specific scenario/use case that I find completely ridiculous, intimating it was an ADHD symptom that one would need a better medical therapy to get past. That was exaggeration. I realize that doesn’t necessarily come across via text comments with strangers.
I hadn’t heard of “tab sleeping” either, so knowing that does blow that issue away. So I concede that point.
And I don’t use just one store. You can leave things in however many carts you have accounts for. Personally I rarely take longer than one browsing session to purchase something, but I understand that’s not necessarily everybody.
The longest (and most complicated, speaking of tab usage) browser process I’ve ever done was when I built my last computer. I used 3 different stores just for that, and took a couple days to finalize the final choices of parts, but even then I didn’t keep them all open.
And if tab sleeping really does fix the resource issue, then I’m not even arguing this process is better or worse anymore, aside from just opening up articles without ever actually reading them.
I can probably use my fingers to count how many times I’ve needed multiple windows in my life (and I’m old now in Internet years), and double digit quantities of tabs is probably barely a bigger number.
Personally, organizing and keeping track of that many things open would drive me nuts.
No it doesnt. Take it from someone who has a dozen of browser windows open at all times with at least the same amount of tabs in each of those. I figured out how to close Firefox so it restarts with all previous windows again.
But it will only load those tabs once I click on them and even has a feature to unload tabs again. My personal shitty method has the downside, that each window will have an active tab that will be loaded at startup, but I work around that by always having an empty tab in each window to take that place.
Doesn’t use noticeably more RAM or CPU that way, than a typical browsing session.
So it’s just like hoarder mentality then.
Not sure how much good closing and opening windows is then. If you close a window, those tabs are supposedly fine, but if you have “dozens” and close 2, what happens when you open a new one?
You have some kinda choice to resurrect a specific window? Or do you just run one window of every browser in existence?
Because I might need it later again, even though I have already manually went to that site 3 times since