Not just nightly, it’s been doing this forever.
Fine with it, only Linus can judge me.
I can’t speak for the developers, but I’m certainly judging you.
Well, I and my 159 tabs are feeling entitled.
I blame my ADHD and anxiety 🤷
It’s okay. My wife has ADHD and anxiety, and many many tabs. She calls them her “emotional support tabs.”
TIL that browsers show a number in the “:D box” if you don’t have enough tabs open.
What do you guys do with so many tabs? I usually close mine if I get more than 7 or 8
In my case, ADHD, curiosity, and anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later.
I never said it was RATIONAL behavior 😄
That’s what bookmarks are for. And even if the webpage gets removed on the server you often can find it on archive.org . Heck if you really wanna make sure you can load the page later your can save the webpage locally onto your device
anxiety about not being able to find something again if I need it later
Yep, overcoming this and realizing I can almost always find what I found before, very easily, cured me of this. And even when it takes a bit of effort to search, it’s just a few minutes until I stumble on it again. Plus sometimes I come across other neat stuff while searching!
Try it, you might like it!
I have all sorts of projects and tasks I jump between depending on my ever shifting priorities. And some projects of mine can spawn 20+ tabs on their own.
I have hundreds of tabs open at any given time
Same here, often 20+ tabs per client, and sometimes working for 6-8 clients at a time. Plus a tab of my own for music/social/news/sport.
Likewise (well, I don’t know about “hundreds,” haha, but dozens, certainly). Ever since tab-searching became a thing (
in the omnibar of Firefox or Ctrl+Shift+A in Chromium), tab count or location in the tab strip doesn’t matter; just jump to whatever you need. This has been tremendously game-changing at my work which also calls for dozens of spreadsheets to be accessible at a moment’s notice based on the task at hand.
I end up reading Wikipedia or TVTropes (or everything2, or Reddit threads or Wookiepedia or ancient forums), and then each tab means that I open several more. I have social media posts open that I want to write arguments against later, articles that I might use in writing those arguments…
My phone is usually at the cap of 500. Between Vivaldi and Firefox my computer probably in the thousands.
I tried using “Pocket” to keep track of interesting articles instead, but it didn’t match my flow.
It is hyperlexia and ADHD. I similarly own probably ~1000 or so books.
500?! You’re wild!
A lot of people in this thread would love Onetab. It‘s available for Firefox and Chrom* on desktop and Firefox on Android.
Vertical tabs really help. i average around 25, but sometimes i get well over 100. Too many tabs on the top bar and they just become icons with a few characters of text, but with vertical tabs you can actually read them.
I use the “Tree style tabs” extension (which gives you outline-style tabs and sub-tabs) and a couple lines of userChrome.css to hide the top tab bar. Very happy they added native vertical tabs, i may switch to that eventually.
Vertical tabs + nesting tabs is the way to go for sure
Ten is about all I’ll have open at once. That happens usually when I’m researching something. When I’m satisfied with my research, I close the tabs. It makes me itchy to have so many open.
I’m pretty much the opposite: my ADHD is generally only mild to moderate in severity, but I’m EXTREMELY distractible and curious by nature (leading to opening tons of tabs relating to everything and nothing) and get irrational anxiety about needing whatever’s in a tab later and not being able to find it again.
Of the 102 tabs, 79 were inactive ones I had long since moved on from 😄
Wrong symbol, but makes more sense than the smiley face on chromium built browsers: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/opening-100-tabs-in-google-chrome-mobile-gets-you-a-smiley-face/
It gets Meta on you.
I don’t see this. is it on a phone maybe?
It is indeed
yes it’s on Firefox mobile, doesn’t have to be nightly, I use the normal version and it shows the same thing
That symbol means it’s time to clear them.
I usually have lots of tabs open for different topics of interest that I split into separate windows. I also unload all these windows other than the active window that I’m on, but I find Firefox still eats a lot of RAM and at times becomes slow. I use a session manager extension to save windows that I want for future reference. Still I wish there was a better way, so that Firefox doesn’t consume most of my ram. Are there any Firefox forks that are memory efficient. I don’t want to switch to a chromium based browser if possible.
