Yeah, that ADHD tax is about to get real expensive with that RAM gouging…
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I can't stand looking at too many tabs, I get claustrophobic, I usually close the browser which purges all history, cookies, etc and open it again to start fresh
same, it gets overwhelming and I have to close them. Naturally this makes me forget whatever that was in the backlog of tabs forever but it's a price to pay...
Lol
I literally wrote an Android app to manage my links because I would have so many open. 🤦♂️
I have like 1.5k tabs, I find ones I need because it suggests open tabs in the address bar. If I need to go from my first few tabs to something at the end or vice versa, I click on one of my pinned tabs which stays at the beginning and is always visible (doesn't scroll) and then use the hotkey to go to next / prev tab which wraps and immediately scrolls to the end. It's a lot faster than using the scroll wheel. That's my main tab group, I have like 6 or 7 others with around 500 tabs each
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.
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.
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.
Because I might need it later again, even though I have already manually went to that site 3 times since
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
People... Book marks... I beg of you ... You don't even need to organize them

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