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How many tabs do you have open?

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Eli

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Firefox - 720
Chrome - 3

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wow I figured I would be the champ. I do have about 6 virtual machines running sometimes one might have three windows with 30 tabs, some of them only a few tabs so at most 150-200 and that gets hard to keep track of. Mostly I'm too lazy to close out something I think I might need to look up in the future. I never turn mine off, it's either, sleep or hibernate.

Imagine if flash crashes your browser, it must take 2 days to bring back 700 tabs.
 
Holy shit man. So... do you pee in the shower? :awe:

I've got 3 open in Chrome right now. I usually have between three and six or so open. But I shut my computer off every night and don't save sessions (unless I really wanna save something), so I don't see how I could ever get that many tabs open. I close stuff when I'm done with it too.
 
Over 700 sites open? How much RAM do you have on that computer? I have 8 GB and when I open 40 sites or so on Chrome, the computer slows down a lot and this is a month old desktop with i3 6th Gen 3.7 Ghz.
 
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I'll admit that I use Session Manager. Before I started using that, I could only ever get up to 150-200 as well. And yeah, a browser crash that wouldn't restore tabs is what made me decide to start using Session Manager....

I hate closing tabs too, if there is even a slight chance I'll need to come back to it, even in the next couple of months, I leave it open... besides generic news articles. Sometimes projects can take a long time. And in some cases I just like having multiple tabs open to the same place, like forums.

I do wish there was an easier way to find tabs sometimes though. I can usually find things pretty fast via the site's icon. But I try to keep the ones I use most at the beginning/end...

I also have 101 windows open, including 27 spreadsheets...

Computer isn't anything special; Core 2 Quad 2.83ghz and 8gb ram. Using ~5gb.
 
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Holy crap, how many TB of ram do you have! My FF uses several GB with just a few tabs open lol. I usually have under 10 tabs open myself unless I'm in the middle of something then I tend to keep opening new ones so I can go back to the others too.
 
"Many."



...792. I've used SessionSaver since it was new, I think back in the Firefox v3 or v4 days, before it was built-in.
It's a similar story at work, though each week I'll at least try to go through and prune out a few. Things get shuffled and priorities change quite often, so tabs for one project get left behind a lot, and are sometimes buried.

Now I just wait for the day, shortly before Half Life 3 comes out, when Firefox will properly support multicore processors like the other major browsers, assuming it lives long enough for that. :\


Cleaning up tabs is like cleaning up anything else: I probably don't do it as often as I should.



Svnla said:
Over 700 sites open? How much RAM do you have on that computer? I have 8 GB and when I open 40 sites or so on Chrome, the computer slows down a lot and this is a month old desktop with i3 6th Gen 3.7 Ghz.
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Firefox hits around 800MB (I think) 1.1GB once it finally opens. It doesn't make a separate process with lots of memory allocated for every single tab.

When/if it goes multicore, I hope that there'll be the ability to limit the number of CPU cores it can use. One major feature I, and probably lots of other people, like about multicore systems is that there's usually at least a core "spare" to let the computer remain usable, without having to go to Task Manager to change process priorities.
 
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Eli said:
I'll admit that I use Session Manager. Before I started using that, I could only ever get up to 150-200 as well. And yeah, a browser crash that wouldn't restore tabs is what made me decide to start using Session Manager....

I hate closing tabs too, if there is even a slight chance I'll need to come back to it, even in the next couple of months, I leave it open... besides generic news articles. Sometimes projects can take a long time. And in some cases I just like having multiple tabs open to the same place, like forums.

I do wish there was an easier way to find tabs sometimes though. I can usually find things pretty fast via the site's icon. But I try to keep the ones I use most at the beginning/end...

Computer isn't anything special; Core 2 Quad 2.83ghz and 8gb ram.
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The best way to find tabs is to segment the virtual machines.

VMware has tabbed view of vms. I have 1 vm for neffing, 2 vm for remote work, 1 vm for researching stocks, 1 vm for banking, 1 vm browsing ebay/transactions, 1 vm on a different vlan that does let scripts and all sorts of flash run.

I've got 32gb of ram on my laptop and I feel I need more, not sure how 700 tabs can work with 8gb.
 
I figured there were others like me. 😀 I've always laughed at people who become neurotic when there are more than a few windows/tabs open, because of the "clutter".

Like, you have this GHz machine with gigabytes of ram and you're going to... check your email? I have always used my computers to their max capabilities. Well, not compared to someone who does rendering or even gaming I guess, but yeah.

Machine is getting a little sluggish, could probably use a reboot. Been 133 days...
 
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Eli said:
I'll admit that I use Session Manager. Before I started using that, I could only ever get up to 150-200 as well. And yeah, a browser crash that wouldn't restore tabs is what made me decide to start using Session Manager....

I hate closing tabs too, if there is even a slight chance I'll need to come back to it, even in the next couple of months, I leave it open... besides generic news articles. Sometimes projects can take a long time. And in some cases I just like having multiple tabs open to the same place, like forums.

I do wish there was an easier way to find tabs sometimes though. I can usually find things pretty fast via the site's icon. But I try to keep the ones I use most at the beginning/end...

I also have 101 windows open, including 27 spreadsheets...

Computer isn't anything special; Core 2 Quad 2.83ghz and 8gb ram. Using ~5gb.
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Ditto on my work computer. I've found that opening a new window for Firefox when on a separate task makes it a lot easier to manage. So, I can click from window to window until I find the window for next year's senior trip. Once I open that window, there are 30 or 40 tabs open with possible things to add to our itinerary. That helps a lot with organization.
 
How old are you? That sounds like something an elderly person would do, thinking that it might take days to find a bookmark and load a web page if they needed to look up the information again.

Or do you have a 300 kbps internet connection?
 
I use as many I need in the short term (I have a bookmark subfolder that opens something like 35 tabs, that's probably the maximum I use at any given time), and then back down to zero.

I've yet to hear a logical argument for having a multitude of tabs open beyond the short term over more sensible alternatives (such as bookmarks).
 
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I use as many I need in the short term (I have a bookmark subfolder that opens something like 35 tabs, that's probably the maximum I use at any given time), and then back down to zero.
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I have a few of those for different purposes. For instance, a folder full of local Craigslist searches for things I'm currently looking for. It has something like 20 bookmarks at the moment. Open it, look through the tabs, close the window when I'm done.
 
I have one open in Chrome. I normally have two or three open at a time I guess.

Looking at the OP's screenshot, it seems like it would take more time to drill down through 700 open tabs than simply browsing through a well organized tree of bookmarks.

As far as normal program windows, at work I normally have gobs of programs / windows running as well as a couple of virtual machines. I don't keep stuff open that I don't need though if I can help it.
 
I hope one of those tabs is your logged-in bank account.
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When I get 12 or so I start thinking "browser abuse" and close a couple.
 
I usually stay under 3 tabs.

Modern browsers have things like bookmarks and remember websites so that you only have to press the first letter or two of the site into the address bar you want to go right back to it. Worst case scenario, modern browsers have "History", "Reopen last session", and "Reopen closed tabs" features where you can bring back pages with only a couple of clicks.
 
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I typically run with a dozen open, but it could be as much as 3x that if I'm doing some specific research.
 
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