tabing through multiple windows of the same program is annoying,

How is it any less annoying than tabbing through multiple browser tabs in the same window?

Yeah, older folks remember the times before browsers had any kind of memory management w.r.t. tabs. And you had maybe 8GB RAM (and that would have been considered beefy). The browsers themselves were also, more often than not, just straight up memory leaks. The longer you kept the program open, the the more RAM it would take until it broke.

No shot you could run up anywhere near those numbers of tabs before your entire system would get bogged down and eventually the browser would crash (and you’d lose them all)

You don’t have to, my dude, you can set your address bar to search through them.

I also bookmark extensively, and actually have my address bar set up to only give me suggestions from my bookmarks.

This is what people don’t seem to realize they can do… You can literally create a bookmarks folder that you never look at again, only search through using your address bar.

You can use a tab stash extension to turn all of your open tabs into bookmarks if you want to preserve what you had open that session. Then you can search through those bookmarks in your address bar.

Bookmarks were easier from the beginning.

As someone who is disgusted by people’s browser tab hygiene on desktop, I will say that I do have this issue on mobile. But it’s really more about how the browser is set up (on Android at least). Every single link I click opens a new tab, and I almost never scroll through existing tabs because, out of sight out of mind.

I haven’t even gotten close… Maybe if I spin up several VMs that each have 8+GB allocated. But why would I do that.

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Have you heard of bookmarks? There’s a bookmark toolbar, that could look almost exactly the same if you want. Including folders with sub-folders, etc.

I can perfectly fine live without them,

I can stop any time I want, I swear!

Bookmarks? Or if you’re logged into youtube, they literally have a “watch later” option to keep track of these.

Same here… I need my browser session to be new each time. I’ll get thrown off if I forget that I had my browser open when I rebooted my PC or something, so it “restores” my session… I’m like what the fuck is this mess? Give me my blank page!

This is what I do. You can even create folders with no name that take up very little space on the bookmarks toolbar, and fill them with links. You can have sub-folders within those folders… I truly just do not understand the tab hoarding mentality.

You can also just start typing and set up your search bar to automatically search bookmarks (and history too if you’re afraid of losing something)

agile

Lol sure thing.

I’m not usually one to really care about how others use their tools, but I agree with this completely. Tab hoarding is pathological.

I get stressed out if I have enough tabs open in one session so that none of them can display any text… But I will still exit them all every time I exit the browser. What am I a maniac?

“A historical” does sound a lot like “ahistorical” when spoken out loud.

Just an observation I just made.

Not without mutagen…

Some Black Mirror shit right here

it can’t tell you when you’re wrong.

Which explains why narcissists seem so obsessed with it.

How convenient.