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[delphonso]

You guys are monsters... 3 tabs maximum.

[Rolan7]

How do you even wiki-binge though?  I'm not criticizing, just amazed at how people use technology differently.
I'll open up like 6-10 wiki pages relevant to a game I've been playing lately, and leave them there, and skip back to them with % whenever I need.  "%blue magic", etc.  Weeks later they're buried, and I come across them while clearing out tabs, and think "Hm, do I want to play some more FFTA2?  Nah" and clear them out.  Or sometimes I did want to keep playing!  It's like a storage area for thoughts.  I can't remember what that would be called 

[delphonso]

Wiki-binging is a good way to see the difference, I'll pop open two or three tabs, read them or skim them entirely, close them, then return to the original article. Repeat until red-eyed and sleepy.

[scriver]

I can't compare to rolan but before I lost them (again) I had over a hundred tabs in my main window. Since I can't seem to be able to make Firefox remember closed windows further than four windows ago, all those tabs (and they were all necessary too! That's the stable amount after I've trimmed away the chaff) were lost when I had the window temporarily closed and received a series of script warning pop ups which apparently all counted as windows. So sigh.

I installed a session manager now to hopefully keep tgst from happening again. Unfortunately this has the side effect of not remembering back/forth history per tab... So I will probably have to start using even more tabs now.

[Iduno]

I'll have to look up add-on compatibility. I'd prefer to not change browsers, given I'd probably lose the profile data. Maybe I'll switch over to Firefox ESR, but geez.

I've been on Team Firefox since early 2000s. It hurts to leave the ship.

Yeah, that's why I suggested a fork. All of my add-ons were compatible, bookmarks are always easy to port over, and it's mostly the same browser without the most recent decisions implemented. I've still kept Firefox installed, but I pretty much don't use it anymore.

I'm still mostly satisfied with Firefox, though.  (trying to resist the urge to bitch about them joining the Flash drop, yet again)

I wish Adobe hadn't prevented people from making reasonable versions of Flash. It was useful, but was wildly insecure. Javascript is similar, but much easier to block or lock down until you decide to trust it.

[Vector]

I have seven tabs open right now. Normally I have 4+. Habitica, three work email accounts, and then whatever I'm actually using that day. At the moment, it's /bay/ x 2 and ANIME BUTTERFLY MEME MAKER.

[Frumple]

It's... it's okay. I only have about three hundred or so between the tablet (mostly read-y things) and the laptop (youtube vids plus bureaucracy junk), I think. Might be four, I'unno. Tablet Opera gives up on counting after a hundred.

... I've been trying to pare down the tablet pile, but it... doesn't really work. You start trying to finish reading something then part way through open up another half dozen tabs for other stories. Even closing one or two a day by catching up to the end of the whatever, the tab horde grows.

fake edit: actually I eyeball estimated the firefox tabs and it's, uh, somewhere over 400 by itself, so the actual total guess is. Um. Probably closer to 1k than not? ahaha

[None]

frumple tends not one but two libraries

[TamerVirus]

I know and am guilty of excessive game backlog
But tab backlog??
That’s a level of madness beyond

[King Zultan]

I think most of my open tabs are Bay12 and a few google searches I've been meaning to look into, I used to have way more but the computer I'm on now days can't take it.

[Rolan7]

I bet it could.  My ~2000 tabs basically just take up a little disk space, not memory.  As long as you periodically restart Firefox, each "frozen" tab is just a few bytes until you wake it up.

I always say it's like making bookmarks, but it's so much better than that.  I can "ctrl-l %fallen" to load up my Fallen London tab, and it's right next to a bunch of wiki pages (which don't load until I click on them).  I can scroll back a little and observe a night, from news articles to bay12 posts, and smile with recollection.  It's a narrative.  I do try to prune the parts which no longer bring me joy but only so I can find the good stuff easier.  There's probably a lot of chaff still there, in the apparently over 1000 tabs I have open, but it's not a pressing issue.

[dragdeler]

You guys are monsters... 3 tabs maximum.

Oh dear are you in 800x600? It is legal to have as many tabs as the screen is wide... Sides scrolling tabs are of the devil though.

[George_Chickens]

You guys are monsters... 3 tabs maximum.

Yeah, three...
THOUSAND!!!

[TamerVirus]

You guys are monsters... 3 tabs maximum.

Yeah, three...
THOUSAND!!!

WHAT? 3000?!? THERE’S NO WAY THAT CAN BE RIGHT!!!

[delphonso]

*checks scouter*

My god... his tabs...

They're over 9000