<story><title>The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs</title><url>https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdkl</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s similar to saying &amp;quot;Surely there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nightmare.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;No, it&amp;#x27;s similar to saying &amp;quot;Surely there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than having 1000 radio&amp;#x2F;tv channels tuned on at once, waiting for you to decide which one is relevant&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Like why not open what you need when you need it rather than squirreling all those &amp;quot;maybes&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>awalton</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand this perspective. It&amp;#x27;s similar to saying &amp;quot;Surely there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nightmare.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not like you&amp;#x27;re actively monitoring every tab at once, you just have the knowledge ready to go and at a finger&amp;#x27;s whim. You use extensions like Tab Hunter to jump directly to the tab you care about.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you could do the same with using a bunch of profiles and bookmarks... but then you need to copy your login cookies and such and it just becomes a mess. I&amp;#x27;ve tried many, many other solutions over the years and simply having a huge number of tabs is the one that continues to Just Work.</text></item><item><author>fletchowns</author><text>There has got to be a better solution to this problem than having 1,000 tabs open in a web browser. That sounds like an absolute nightmare.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate because back in ~2010 I used to open over 1,000 tabs in Chrome at a time. It&amp;#x27;s very useful when doing research: each window represents a topic, and each topic can spawn 30+ tabs.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays Chrome keels over at around 150, like you say. It also leaks memory like a sieve, so if your hard drive is anywhere close to full you&amp;#x27;ll end up with a lovely OS X popup saying all your running programs have been frozen and that your system is out of memory  (since it can&amp;#x27;t page to disk because it&amp;#x27;s full).</text></item><item><author>elfchief</author><text>Wow. I&amp;#x27;ve been getting more and more frustrated with how poorly Chrome handles even a moderately large number of tabs (~150), and it sounds like my savior is going to be ... Firefox. Huh.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t have guessed it, but I&amp;#x27;ll totally take it.&lt;p&gt;I have a nice extension for Chrome called Quick Tabs that gives me a searchable list of my open tabs and makes it easy to find things I have open... anyone know which of the several things that seem to do that with Firefox would be the best to use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>Different people are different. When researching a question without a direct answer, it&amp;#x27;s more effective for me to open up tabs as I read a page and then search the most likely candidate. Whenever I reach a dead-end I can just switch tabs as opposed to pressing the back button N times. zzalpha&amp;#x27;s comment sums it up nicely: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14824086&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=14824086&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I know I&amp;#x27;m a power user, but I miss how effective old Chrome was at this.</text></comment>
<story><title>The New Firefox and Ridiculous Numbers of Tabs</title><url>https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>zdkl</author><text>&amp;gt; It&amp;#x27;s similar to saying &amp;quot;Surely there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nightmare.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;No, it&amp;#x27;s similar to saying &amp;quot;Surely there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than having 1000 radio&amp;#x2F;tv channels tuned on at once, waiting for you to decide which one is relevant&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Like why not open what you need when you need it rather than squirreling all those &amp;quot;maybes&amp;quot;?</text></item><item><author>awalton</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t understand this perspective. It&amp;#x27;s similar to saying &amp;quot;Surely there&amp;#x27;s a better solution than having 1000 files on your file system. That sounds like a nightmare.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s not like you&amp;#x27;re actively monitoring every tab at once, you just have the knowledge ready to go and at a finger&amp;#x27;s whim. You use extensions like Tab Hunter to jump directly to the tab you care about.&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you could do the same with using a bunch of profiles and bookmarks... but then you need to copy your login cookies and such and it just becomes a mess. I&amp;#x27;ve tried many, many other solutions over the years and simply having a huge number of tabs is the one that continues to Just Work.</text></item><item><author>fletchowns</author><text>There has got to be a better solution to this problem than having 1,000 tabs open in a web browser. That sounds like an absolute nightmare.</text></item><item><author>sillysaurus3</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s unfortunate because back in ~2010 I used to open over 1,000 tabs in Chrome at a time. It&amp;#x27;s very useful when doing research: each window represents a topic, and each topic can spawn 30+ tabs.&lt;p&gt;Nowadays Chrome keels over at around 150, like you say. It also leaks memory like a sieve, so if your hard drive is anywhere close to full you&amp;#x27;ll end up with a lovely OS X popup saying all your running programs have been frozen and that your system is out of memory  (since it can&amp;#x27;t page to disk because it&amp;#x27;s full).</text></item><item><author>elfchief</author><text>Wow. I&amp;#x27;ve been getting more and more frustrated with how poorly Chrome handles even a moderately large number of tabs (~150), and it sounds like my savior is going to be ... Firefox. Huh.&lt;p&gt;Wouldn&amp;#x27;t have guessed it, but I&amp;#x27;ll totally take it.&lt;p&gt;I have a nice extension for Chrome called Quick Tabs that gives me a searchable list of my open tabs and makes it easy to find things I have open... anyone know which of the several things that seem to do that with Firefox would be the best to use?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mustacheemperor</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d compare it more to bringing a stack of books to your table at the library. Just because you could notate the name and position of each and fetch them as needed doesn&amp;#x27;t mean it&amp;#x27;s not helpful to have them all handy. I&amp;#x27;ve never personally used that many tabs for research, but vetting sources often requires taking a look at a lot of different links for any given subtopic.</text></comment>