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I felt this on a painful level… at that point it’s not browsing, it’s just tab duplication with extra steps 😅

On my last phone, it never went below 99+ It only got better because I changed phone

I am a heavy user of some keyboard shortcuts and Cmd/Ctrl-T for a new tab is just so easy. Hit that and type. Especially after mapping CapsLock to be Cmd/Ctrl for easiest reach 😆

Confirmed, we don't.

The best solution for this that I ever saw was an app that indexed every page you read, so you had a custom search available personalized to your usage history. IDK why it didn't catch on. (It had some issues that made me stop using it, but could have been great.)

Absolutely not. And we hate ourselves once we burn through all the ram and have to start closing tabs, seeing the same one a dozen times.

Guilty - it's that "I know I'm not quite done with this", and both a reminder and a promise to yourself to come back to it... And then there's the "I know I saw it recently", but can't see it in your tabs... "recently" is a relative time frame.

I mean, people should do what they want, but unfortunately I think of it as the computer equivalent of having piles of clothes lying around on the floor. Why not use bookmark folders? Or Zotero or something equivalent

I've had 1000+, and I have some idea where some of them are, but the vast majority (~900) are just leftovers of an area of tabs lost in the vastness of UI wasted space, pure cognitive chaos that I can tap into for an inspiration that was once felt but lost to the oblivion of lack of time

There are systems in most browsers these days with or witout plugins you can group the tabs and give them a title. But you have to do it and sometimes you forget 😁 Best regards from a multiple windows with 20+ tabs kind of person.

The search tabs function is great, so that rarely happens. If you still can't remember how to find it again (and thus open another tab!), then you search history. You keep on doing this till your computer slows down so much, you have to tidy up! 😀

then they are double fools. they should be able to find stuff they have open on their computer even with 100 tabs. they should know each tab, or at the very least every thematic tab group bunched together, like they do their own children only exception is stressful deadline moments that don't...

Oh, having lots of tabs open on your phone doesn't count I think. I meant when the bar on your desktop browser has so many that you can't tell what's already open, but on phones there isn't a tab bar anyway!

Actually that was a very useful call to action - thank you for that. Found several improvements to the DEVONthink application that I use for web clipping and archiving which have significantly unblocked my workflow.