If they're lost, I wasn't meant to have them.
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How? Why?
I can delete them any time. I am not addicted. I definitely need them again at some point
Bro, every one of those websites has now seen everything you've done online with the cookies. I think. I have firefox set up to clear on exit, and do so multiple times a day if using it a lot. Obviously after porn, but other stuff too.
If the tabs truly love you, they will come back.
They don't, the tabs are using you, they will leave you after you don't serve them any longer. Whores.
Fucking philospher over here. Fuck restoring tabs though. It's bad luck, there might be a reason it crashed that has to do with evil spirits.
I'm screwed - I use Linux.
Your OS use so little RAM so you can open too many tabs and since you never restart you hoard them like a dragon?
You're screwed because you use a fully featured OS with many browsers that have that exact feature?
I don't do so many restarts.
Haha ok got it
Firefox on Kubuntu always offers to restore tabs for me, like some kind of crack dealer.
I'm always surprised people hoard tabs. The explanation is always some crazy shit and they're basically bookmarks to some
I view bookmarks as being for sites that I intend to visit regularly enough to warrant making a handy link. A tab is for a place I plan to visit once, probably soon, but not right now, so I want to remember it, but not to the point where I'll make a dedicated bookmark link to it. Usually it's a video I want to watch at some point when I have more time, or a recipe I think I'll try making in a few days. The issue is when I don't get the motivation to do what I kept the tab open to do, so I start getting a backlog of tabs that I simultaneously don't want to lose because I kept them open for a reason, but I don't want to visit because there are too many of them to parse through.
You may find handy the extension "onetab"
I just use bookmarks for that. If it isn't worth bookmarking I'm just not gonna bother. I'll find it in the history if I want to for whatever reason (almost never happens)
if i bookmark something i might as well have deleted it (my object permanence is bad). when it's a tab i can at least see it there at all times
There's the bookmarks bar. I use it mostly for most used stuff but if you have space there you could just save stuff there. It is visible but not as a tab
But if tabs work for you, no reason to change that tbh
Yeah it kind of makes me irrationally angry when people try to defend it lol
Tabs are ephemeral
I don’t even save history
I have like 50 tabs across various groups. A lot are things I want to read but haven't gotten to yet, a few are just work (email, slack, onedrive). Some are for job apps. I do restore my tabs lol.
Bookmarks are messier because the papers aren't necessary all the time and their citations are in endnote. But if I bookmarked all the papers I'd have some thousands which is too messy in a browser.
Maybe it's just me but I've never had a problem with building up too many tabs. Like I can't stand having more than like four.
Bookmarks, however, I have a lot of bookmarks.
Funnily enough, on firefox on my PC I have an entire extension called "no tabs" which does exactly what it says and disables tabs. On my phone just never open any tho :3
Disables tabs? Like you have to close one site to look at another? I am envious that you can make that work.
Well, if any site attempts to open a new tab, it'll just automatically pull it to a new browser window instead :3. Otherwise in general I would have to close the site im looking at if I wanted to open something else in the same window, rather than launching a new one
I honestly pisses me off that restoring tabs is default behavior. If I closed the browser I meant too and if I didn't mean to oh fucking well. If I wanted to save that shit for later it would have been a bookmark.
I've honestly started doing that at least once a week and it really feels good for my mind to let that go. I can find whatever site it was later on when I actually need it again
Have you heard of bookmarks? There's even a bookmark bar that is right up there near the tabs. You can even edit the bookmark and delete the name so it's just a tiny icon on the bookmarks bar.
But I don’t like bookmarks, they’re way more work. Sure, if I’m trying to get the best performance possible, I’ll close my browser (all tabs will reopen when I start the browser again), but I mostly need a fuckload of tabs and a word processor, so it doesn’t normally impact my usage to have a bunch of tabs open.
blasphemy burn the witch cease your lies
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
On Monday morning turn on the extension “tabs2text”
Export to markdown and paste into an Emacs org-file under a new date.
Close all tabs and turn off the extension.
Now you are clear to start another week without fear of losing a link and without the burden of any open tabs.
Sometimes I’ll declare tab bankruptcy and just close the whole window. If it’s important I’ll find it again
I prefer to just have one tab open unless I'm copying or pasting or have to reference something from another site at the same time.
My goldfish memory makes me forget about the other open tabs after a while anyway, so they become useless xD
The fun of being a supervillain
I switched to vertical tabs and started using tab groups so I never lose anything I don't mean to (I treat non-grouped tabs as ephemeral)
But that's just because I always have the same stuff open (LAN services, but also videos and music because I use tabs like a pseudo playlist)
