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I swear I check them often enough! (programming.dev)

submitted 5 months ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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Text: My browser when I open the 42nd tab and beyond

A 2 panel image of Michael Jordan: Stop it. Get some help.

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[-] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 21 points 5 months ago

I'll never really understand this, I just bookmark stuff. I've never had more than maybe 15-20 open at the same time my entire life... Usually it's just 5 or 6 max.

[-] sping@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 5 months ago

I don't even now how anyone keeps track of them and finds the ones they want. And how can you possibly do that quicker than just going to the page afresh.

Part of working on a project for me is assembling links to important pages. It may be days, weeks or months later that I want to come back and there are the links. And of course, anything generically or regularly useful is just a bookmark as you say.

It really seems like people keep tabs open just to keep a list of useful pages. There are much easier and more effective ways to do that.

[-] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I don't understand it either. I've never had more then 300 open at the same time, anything more then that is weird.

[-] fatalicus@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I'm in the same boat.

I'll have a lot of tabs open with documentation and such as I'm working on things, but at the end of the day they are all either bookmarked if I need to continue the next day, or closed as I close my browser.

Then we have people like one of the consultants we have, that has 100+ tabs open, in several browser windows (different profiles), at all times. I wonder how much money we've wasted on him just by waiting for him to find the right tab when he wants to show us something in meetings...

[-] timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Simple tab groups in Firefox. Makes it easy, has a search bar, etc.

Invaluable when you have a ton of projects.

[-] tyler@programming.dev 0 points 5 months ago

That dude is just slow and doesn't understand his tools. I have several thousand tabs open and it takes all of half a second to jump to any one of them. FF allows you to search open tabs just by using the address bar. Let's say you're researching camera lenses and you have 5 youtube videos open, several forum posts, the lens maker's website open, and a bunch of different sales websites like adorama and b&h open. Do you literally bookmark those and close them all to end your day and then just reopen them the next? Why not just leave them open. FF handles it fine.