How many browser tabs do you keep open? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 03:52:28 am
content: I'm predominantly a Firefox user, and a compulsive tab opener. My typical browser window will easily accumulate over two hundred tabs after a few weeks. My current session is about a week old after a crash that dumped my open tabs; just counted a bit over a hundred. I do periodically close bunches that I'm not using (or interested in) any more.Anyway, as you might expect, this consumes an astonishing amount of RAM and is detrimental to a fast browsing experience.I'm wondering if I'm some sort of freak, or if I miss-learned some sort of browsing behaviour early in the piece. It's just so much nicer to ctrl-click the interesting links in an article and read them when they've finished loading.Any thoughts?

author: c4757p
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 03:56:30 am
content: Quote from: apelly on March 13, 2014, 03:52:28 amJesus!I tend to accumulate a dozen or so, which I thought was a lot...

author: johansen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:06:22 am
content: less than 10 most of the time.I don't bookmark anything anymore.. and honestly it feels like the internet is getting smaller with time.

author: Joule Thief
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:08:09 am
content: I might accumulate 200+BOOKMARKSper week - but not open tabs. I'm not even sure how that would look on the screen.

author: pickle9000
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:12:23 am
content: Not so many I can't read the tab, 12 max.

author: MatCat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:15:24 am
content: I try to keep mine below 30, though it often grows to 50+ easily.

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:29:47 am
content: I have 30 open currently across 4 windows since this morning.Unfortunately Chrome has a tendency to start churning and go 100% cpu when it starts getting low on physical ram, so every now and then I try and remember to close some down, otherwise I have to switch to a terminal and killall -9 chrome in order to get things under control.

author: rdl
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:31:15 am
content: Rarely more than eight or so. If I can't read them and don't remember what they are, what's the point?

author: Joshuamcd22
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:39:02 am
content: I often have between 100 and 300 tabs open, across 20 or so windows.... I know it a lot, but I just never really exit web pages, why do it when you have 32gigs of ram and a quad-core 4.2ghz processor.... It doesn't even slow my computer down.I've even tried opening around 300 tabs, then running 3 different virtual machines, each with a bunch of tabs open. Then running every program I have on my desktop on my main computer, and the virtual machines. Then I played Crysis, with no problem.

author: magetoo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:41:21 am
content: Quote from: apelly on March 13, 2014, 03:52:28 amI do the same. Eleven windows open right now, and maybe 100-150 tabs? It's gotten to the point where it seemed appropriate to start using a version control system to keep the browser session files in.Someone needs to write a better browser, one that can handlegroupsof tabs efficiently..QuoteI remember there was a thread like this one on Metafilter, way back. After a while, everyone commenting had two things in common: An ADHD diagnosis and 100+ tabs open. :-)Oh, and I use Opera. It's always seemed to be faster / use less memory with many tabs open.

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:43:47 am
content: Ah. I see confusion. Maybe Tab Mix Plushttps://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-mix-plus/is part of my problem. I have 5 rows of tabs and the rows scroll vertically with the mouse wheel.Bookmarks get old and stale (I do have a lot though) and I find them harder to find (and remember) than just re-googling.My tabs consist mainly of 1) a bunch related to the last few things I researched 2) a handful of regularly used sites and related tabs 3) a bunch related to current projects and/or interestsFor example, how the hell do you buy something on ebay without ending up with 30 tabs of similar items that you're comparing? Maybe if your internet is fast (or your browser isn't bogged down with tabs) you can actually click links and expect them to open in 2 seconds.

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:45:51 am
content: Quote from: Joshuamcd22 on March 13, 2014, 04:39:02 amNERD!

author: SeanB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:50:32 am
content: About 50 at the moment, stuff I want to get to. Nice is the crash management of FF will enable you to reopen those tabs when you do finally crash it or kill the browser, and they did a while ago change behaviour do they do not all try to reload at once. Bookmarks I must prune some day, lot of cruft in there.

author: ve7xen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:50:57 am
content: Quote from: MatCat on March 13, 2014, 04:15:24 amI'm in this region. Basically I use them as a cache for stuff I intend to use in the near future, interesting pages related to a project I'm working on or whatever. Of course, said projects or interests often don't materialize and the tabs sit open for ages.I can't live withoutTree Style Tabanymore. For this reason alone, I find all browsers other than Firefox unsuitable. You can read the titles, it makes better use of widescreen monitors than a bunch of whitespace, and you can arrange your tabs into a hierarchy and keep them around while reducing clutter.

author: Joshuamcd22
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:53:37 am
content: Quote from: apelly on March 13, 2014, 04:45:51 amLOL, ya. I also built the computer.

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:55:40 am
content: Quote from: SeanB on March 13, 2014, 04:50:32 amYes.Normally. Sucks balls when it fails.Quote from: SeanB on March 13, 2014, 04:50:32 amYes. Also, I'm not sure if it's an add-on I have or std Firefox, but there is a thing to postpone loading tabs until you click on them. I use this on a couple of my RAM constrained machines.

author: Dago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 06:55:25 am
content: I usually end up with so many tabs that you can only see the logo on the tab and nothing else. Currently (at work) I have 50 tabs open. I'd keep more if Chrome would support multiple tab rows

author: mos6502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 07:36:43 am
content: Chrome is really bad with multiple tabs and seems to eat up resources a lot more than Firefox. Problem is that both Chrome and Firefox only come as 32 bit executables and so can only use 2GB of RAM. But I can comfortably keep 200 tabs open in Firefox.Of course Firefox also leaks memory like a sieve, so eventually it'll crash.

author: peter.mitchell
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 07:38:55 am
content: Dunno what you guys are doing with chrome, or what I am doing, but i usually have around 80~ tabs open and have no issues, the tabs are usually pretty media rich too, not just html web pages but lots of pdfs ect too.

author: ve7xen
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 08:25:24 am
content: Quote from: mos6502 on March 13, 2014, 07:36:43 amTime to switch to Linux

author: kolonelkadat
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 08:42:17 am
content: Quote from: magetoo on March 13, 2014, 04:41:21 amthat doesnt sound like add/adhd at all. I have some severe adhd, and only ever have 15-20 tabs open max. typically, I only have 3-4 open. When im done with a tab, im done with a tab. ... close tab button -> new tab button ... Old tab is probably gone from my memory faster than the computer's.keeping tabs open once they are no longer part of the active working group is some hoarder level mental disorder imo.

author: mos6502
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 08:57:50 am
content: Quote from: ve7xen on March 13, 2014, 08:25:24 amI do have a bunch of machines running Linux ... but my main development machine is running windows due to a lot of software being windows only.

author: G7PSK
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 09:01:22 am
content: I am a compulsive tab closer, I never have more than 4 tabs at a time. I use chrome in a Linux computer and if there is something I want to go back to I use the history log or book mark the site if I want a permanent record. I also close the browser when doing something else and turn the computer off whenever its not in use so I don't think I could ever accumulate 300 open tabs.

author: TMM
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 09:17:23 am
content: not sure if on a forum with a bunch of freaks or a bunch of trolls...What the hell do you do with 200 tabs open? Do you open every link in a new tab and never close it?At any one time i might have 3 browser windows open and 1-10 tabs in each...

author: magetoo
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 09:33:56 am
content: Quote from: TMM on March 13, 2014, 09:17:23 amIt's like what apelly said:Quote from: apelly on March 13, 2014, 04:43:47 amAnd then you keep the tabs open between sessions because it'susefuland you know you're going to come back to it anyway, and managing bookmarks is just a hassle. The next time you start up the browser, you start looking into something new, and then another thing after that, and it all just adds up.

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 09:43:41 am
content: I've 2 means for browsing the web:Daily groove"Work"Grove consists of opening my overvisited websites and closing them one by one. This ritual may repeat every 30 minutes if I'm bored, otherwise only in the morning and evening time.Work can vary from 3 tabs to 20, depending how much troubleshooting-via-google I'm doing.I can never see having open 50 tabs. Not only do I feel the standard tab bar cluttered when I have opened 10, I fail to see how one can be productive at all when all those tabs are lurking in your backmind "READ ME F5 ME READ ME AGAIN". I just can't

author: Tris20
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 09:55:43 am
content: I have a friend who usually seems to have 4 windows with at least 10 tabs in each. I can't keep track of that much, it just stresses me out. 10 at most for me. You guys should really look at getting tabcloud. Not sure if firefox has it but in chrome it lets you save your current open tabs as a group so you can just re-open them if you want.Ugh, first thing in the morning and I've only got four open. The idea of 300 tabs open right now just seems horrendous!

author: MatCat
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 10:01:17 am
content: I use Tab Mix Plus, works well for multirow tabs.200 tabs would drive me insane, I like to be able to still see some title from the page. Like previous have said 30 to 50 gives me what I need, I have about 6 to 9 websites that are ALWAYS there, I.E. gmail, redmine, youtube, litecoin mining pool, EEVBlog, a few other forums, then of course there are about 10 websites that are always open at any given time but get rotated around, I.E. ebay, digikey, mouser, then come the project tabs which take up the rest of my open tabs, generally this is going to consist of 10 to 30 tabs of things like datasheets, references, google image searches, math equations typed into google, etc.I am not a bookmarker, if I bookmark something it's because I don't plan to visit it for well over a month from now and I don't want to lose the URL.

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 10:58:58 am
content: I've put off cleaning up for some months now, I'm at 6 windows and approximately 500-700 tabs total,Though its yet to cause any slowdowns thanks to installing as much RAM as physically possibly when the PC was built (32GB)Oddly enough its only you-tube that will ever cause a crash, having too many half buffered videos just causes some kind of hang, if i kill the plugin it comes back to life and everything is happy for another 15 days,

author: Dago
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 11:45:37 am
content: Quote from: magetoo on March 13, 2014, 09:33:56 amI can only speak for myself but that seems pretty much like I handle my tabs. I have 5-10 tabs "regularly used sites" (like email, eevblog, work email, intranet etc.) that are always open. Then the tabs are pretty much "newest researched thing on the right" -kind of order. Tabs act like a post-it note of projects and work stuff I've researched. Usually when some tabs has been open for a long time (weeks) and I've done nothing with it. I usually close all tabs that I know for sure I do not need within a day or so but then theres a bunch of datasheets etc. open that are related to projects. Why close them when I need to open them anyway again.

author: apelly
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 12:53:42 pm
content: Quote from: peter.mitchell on March 13, 2014, 07:38:55 amHa. Pinged meWhy thefuckdoes youtube need to start playing automatically?Fuck you google!It's like the 90s again. Donothave muzak on your website! Donotplay media until asked!I read that chrome has a "media playing" tab notification. Does it work? Firefox tried and failed on this front I believe.Quote from: kolonelkadat on March 13, 2014, 08:42:17 amQuote from: mojo-chan on March 13, 2014, 09:10:45 amNot amazing. The start of a very good thing. Sadly it doesn't seem to have been touched for a year or two. I use it, but it needs to be a lot easier to send a page to a group, manage groups, and share groups between PCs.Quote from: magetoo on March 13, 2014, 09:33:56 amThisQuote from: Rerouter on March 13, 2014, 10:58:58 amI am not worthy!Quote from: Rerouter on March 13, 2014, 10:58:58 amYes. My problem is something else. I'm not sure yet, but perhaps I'm accidentally traffic shaping myself, my DNS cache is shit, my ISP is shit, my network foo is low some other way (likely) or I've got a kernel compiled with suboptimal options (also likely).

author: echen1024
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 03:52:53 pm
content: I generally open upwards of 20 across many windows. One time, the F1 key on my keyboard got jammed opening up 450 internet explorer windows. I used procexp to kill em all.

author: hans
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:21:38 pm
content: Quote from: apelly on March 13, 2014, 12:53:42 pmYoutube changes their playback behavior more often than a normal individual changes their underpants.Seriously, they overhaul aspects of their website so often it's plain annoying. I often use plugins to force behavior the way I want it. But then they change enough to render those plugins useless again, doh.A friend of mine thought his Google Chrome update was messed up once again (because well, Chrome is Google, Youtube is Google, they both share the same lets-change-everything-every-2-months-syndrome) because video's kept playing when he navigated to the YT homepage. I said, no it does that in Firefox too, it's a new "feature". Next question was: where can I turn this off?There are plugins for Greasemonkey (or standalone FF plugins) that will have options like stop automatic playing on load, you just have to look around. I had one for Chrome in the past, but now I have switched to FF I haven't really looked.I've installed Youtube Center recently because of some idiotic Youtube "DASH playback" feature crashed after 3 seconds on every video, rendering Youtube useless.Maybe I should. Recently they have changed something again. If you open a new video it will pause the currently playing one. Not so wonderful if you're streaming a playlist of music/video's and want to finish a song , because you know.. actually listening to music in 1 continuous way helps increase the experience (especially non-melodic long instrumental songs that build up)

author: geppa.dee
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:22:06 pm
content: Quote from: apelly on March 13, 2014, 12:53:42 pmhttp://flashblock.mozdev.org/and this problem is gone.9 dektops also help with organizing by task. Both in Linux and Windows.I absolutely love Firefox (nothing beats the likes of Firebug and extras or Scriptish/Greasemonkey) and would use it exclusively if it would behave like Chrome in regards to freeing memory when closing a tab. NoScript + Restart button + session reload help a little but only just a little.Edit:Hans beat me to recommending an extension to fix the annoying autoplay. However, I find flashblock far more useful because it works on any Flash content, youtube or not and it actually prevents the Flash object from loading until you tell it to, instead of just letting it load but not play. This keeps it out of memory until such time as it's actually wanted.

author: Phaedrus
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 04:22:28 pm
content: I normally have 4-12 open, unless I'm specifically working on something where I have a lot of datasheets to look at. I get annoyed when I have more than a dozen or so tabs, so I go through and close the ones I'm not using at the moment. If I need it later it usually takes like 2-3 seconds to find the page again.

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2014, 09:42:00 pm
content: Quote from: geppa.dee on March 13, 2014, 04:22:06 pmYup, a plugin for blocking flash autoplay does the trick for me as well. None of that annoying autoplaying crap. As for the OP, anywhere between about 10 and 200. I open a new window when I think I'll get a whole bunch of new tabs on a subject. That way when I'm done with that subject I can close all the tabs for that window.And chrome vs firefox memory management is why I use chrome for the lotsa tabs part of browsing. I sometimes have firefox on the side if I want specific handy tools. Like firebug. XD Or live http headers. or or or....

author: Hypernova
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 01:19:41 am
content: About 60+ in 5 rows, I start pruning when the tab rows start scrolling. The biggest problem is that many on the top row is about 1+ year old. It gets weird if I scroll up through the "strata" and check what I was looking at a year ago. Unlike many here I avoid using multiple windows. I set Tab Mix Plus to enforce that.Part of the reason why I got a 2560*1440 27" screen.

author: romantronixlab
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 01:57:11 am
content: At one time I got to have 50+ tabs until I found a neat feature "Group Tabs" that way I can have them by interest of by subject or any other way. As of this post only 11 tabs are open on the main with 10 in a group about hacking the PAP2 VoIP adapter.

author: BalticLab
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 02:02:00 am
content: Once I start hitting more than about 10 - 15 tabs per screen (got a 3 screen set-up), I start sorting them into separate browser Windows by some general headline like Work, Personal, Amateur Movies, etc. By item number three I of course mean YouTube videos, at least that's my story for now! That hierarchical tab thing on FF looks cool, that may make my life a whole lot easier. I will try that out later.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 10:27:13 am
content: I've been working towards a more portable and clonable system config for years. This means minimizing the amount of user-config information kept in either the standard Windows black holes (My documents, registry, etc) or stored in utilities (bookmarks, tabs, etc.) Ideally all user-config would be completely OS-independent, but that's not yet quite possible (FU Microsoft!)So almost invariably I avoid using tabs in browsers at all. I use Firefox and Opera, and keep them configured for 'separate window per instance', with tab-bar disabled. Rarely have more than 4 to 10 windows open, so the Windows taskbar is my 'tab bar'. (Which could work better, but suffices. Again, FU Microsoft.)For keeping large lists of URLs and other stuff, I just use plain text files. It helps to have a very fast-opening and clean text ed (editpad 3.4.0, no longer available.) Text files are vastly superior to bookmark files, since they are free-form, you can include whatever you want, universally portable, searchable, you can have as many as you want, and filed in places logical to their topic, etc.For commonly accessed web sites, I use a technique that takes advantage of the human brain's spacial memory - you remember visual arrangements much better than lists, etc. MS Windows is deliberately structured to cripple user ability to create stable visual-arrangement-based interfaces (crippled by randomly occurring icon auto-arrange, keeping layout info in the registry, etc) , but it's possible to bludgeon it into semi-usability.Basically, a tree of folders containing icons in manual free-arrangement. The whole tree is rooted in my own 'portable utils' folder, and is accessed via one icon on the desktop. MS Windows regularly randomly auto-arranges icons in folders on the desktop, but for folders elsewhere, deeper in the drive folder tree it doesn't do that. (Which is another demonstration that the random auto-arrange is deliberate.)So, you put your whole 'tree of folders of icon layouts that you can visually learn' hidden deep, then make a shortcut to it from the desktop.Microsoft will still arse-rape your setup now and then (Oh, you changed your monitor resolution? Let me autoarrange ALL your folders of icons!) But I can live with that, given the benefits of this technique.To assist with those rebuilds I keep a screenshot of each folder's layout, in the folder.Advantages are you can arrange things in visual groups, specify which browser to open each site, mix web-links, utils, text files and anything else in the groups, etc.Also, it's a constant reminder of the many conceptual shortcomings in MS Windows. Such reminders are useful if you like thinking about and taking notes of better ways it could be done.This method is far from ideal, but it works for me, for now.

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 02:58:52 pm
content: Just counted them: 4 chrome windows with 4, 7, 7, 25 tabs respectively. Not too bad, 43 tabs total.

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 10:18:27 pm
content: Can I choose the answer of 'you people are crazy'?Anyway to answer the question: None. I keep no tabs open. I typically have only a single page open and no more than 3 at once and then I close them once I have seen what I want to see. Heck, I dont even use tabbed browsing.I do have something like 1000 favorites though. They are all organized according to topic, not only that, I also number them so they wont fly out of order on any computer mishaps.I also actually shut my computer down at night. Why should I waste energy when I am not using it? I have a SSD, so it starts back up in mere seconds. I am sure that shutting it down also increases its life span and lessens the chance that I will have a hard drive failure before I get a new one.(so basically this would mean that my computer would be powered up for over 2000 hours less than most of you per year)

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 10:25:54 pm
content: Quote from: Tinkerer on March 14, 2014, 10:18:27 pmSure. It's the human condition. The planet is full of those crazy monkeys.QuoteWhy indeed. What does shutting down the computer have to do with amount of tabs? Using tabbed browsing != computer has to be on all the time.

author: Rerouter
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 10:47:15 pm
content: as you have an SSD, there is this wonderful feature called hibernate after x minutes of inactivity on most windows pc's.....so if you have an older ps2 keyboard, or an always on port for a usb one to be plugged into you simply hit a key and in a few seconds you back where you where,noting that for some of us when you get into a decent project you prefer to start off the next day exactly where you where,

author: Rigby
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 10:59:07 pm
content: When I'm farting around reading, I usually have < 10 tabs. When I'm coding, I can have 50+ tabs open. I even wrote a utility to help me align all the browser windows so I can see lots of stuff at once. WIN+NUMPAD[1-9] puts the active window in that half or corner of the screen. The regular Win7 WIN+[LEFT|RIGHT] moves between monitors.My point is that being able to quickly arrange windows like that makes it very easy to have dozens of browser tabs going at once, grouped by topic.

author: TerraHertz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2014, 11:43:31 pm
content: Quote from: Rerouter on March 14, 2014, 10:47:15 pmNoting that the inability of MS Windows & utilities to save the entire current UI & tools config as a single, user-named and location-specified editable text file, and be able to restore that configuration on user command (including automatically on start), is one of the (many) major failings of Windows. And all competing OSs actually.Would be nice to be able to back that stuff up (without the vast file sizes of entire installation images), and clone it to multiple machines. But nooooo....

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 03:44:51 am
content: Quote from: mrflibble on March 14, 2014, 10:25:54 pmBecause as far as I know, the tabs dont get saved once the program closes.

author: Rigby
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 04:04:59 am
content: They can. It's just a setting. "Show my windows and tabs from last time" in Firefox, I think. Chrome calls it "continue where I left off."

author: Tinkerer
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 05:30:47 am
content: Quote from: Rigby on March 15, 2014, 04:04:59 amWell I must not be the only one who doesnt know this, because every now and then I hear someone asking if there is a way to get their tabs back after the program accidently closed.

author: mrflibble
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 09:39:19 am
content: Quote from: Tinkerer on March 15, 2014, 03:44:51 amRestoring tabs from previous session works fine in both firefox and chrome. Hell, it even works in opera.

author: ablacon64
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 15, 2014, 01:51:31 pm
content: I open a lot, but organize them using the tab group feature in Firefox (Linux version).

author: GreyWoolfe
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 01:50:51 am
content: I don't think I have ever had more than 7 or 8 tabs open (right now I have 4). I use my bookmarks. I mostly use Chrome on my home computers. On my work laptop I use IE because what I access is optimized for IE and I have 2 tabs open. One is the link to the company customer care website and one tab for the VPN access. I will open up additional tabs if I have to access other company websites. I don't play on that computer and almost everything is done through files and software on the laptop itself. My multiple monitor limit is 2 on both my personal and through my company laptop docking station. I don't really have the real estate for more than that.

author: rexxar
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 06:16:41 am
content: I usually have 10 to 15 tabs open. When I'm in the middle of a project, this easily inflates to 50 or more. The nice thing is that since new tabs open to the right, I can just scroll all the way to the left, pick the tab I had open before the project, and just right click -> close tabs to the right.Usually my workflow goes something like: Google issue, oh that looks like a good solution *middle click*, okay this isn't exactly it, but I'll keep it open in case I don't find anything better, back to Google, repeat until you give up or find the solution. Either way, it's usually about 20-30+ tabs. Other times I'll see an interesting link, send it to a new tab (without leaving my current one) and immediately forget about it.I don't know if it's Firefox or something else going on with my system, but once Firefox starts doing its memory leak thing, everything just goes to hell. Everything hangs, takes several minutes to respond, I can't even get task manager to show up. Firefox is only using 1.5GB of RAM, I dunno why it'd murder everything else, when I still have over a GB free.Usually at this point I just kill Firefox's process and hope my tabs don't get eaten. I also haven't quite figured out if you need to kill Firefox's process or just close all windows to clear its cache and memory leaks, anyone know?

author: Weez
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: March 16, 2014, 01:35:59 pm
content: I usually only have 5-10 tabs open, one window. Everything is bookmarked and categorized in FF.I normally use the "open all in tabs" feature and immediately close those I won't be using. I can very quickly set up a session that way.My computer usage is nearly all recreational, though. I suppose if it's part of your job, I can see dozens of tabs/windows being open.I do shut down completely at night - my electric bill is high enough as it is. Booting up only takes a minute or so.