DigiKey unveils their new logo/branding - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Bobertsawesome
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 05:12:20 pm
content: https://www.digikey.com/en/news/press-releases/2023/may/digikey-unveils-updated-logo-and-brandA sad day for the old logo. Otherwise, nothing has changed...

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 09:04:07 pm
content: Thought the new logo looked cool.The favicon looks like crap though:

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 09:12:59 pm
content: I've never understood why companies do this. Not only do they do it, but they spend exorbitant amounts of money in many cases to pay someone to design the new logo. The whole point of a brand is familiarity, if you change the logo that's changing the brand and making it look unfamiliar, and why? I'm not any more likely to buy from DigiKey now than before, not really any less either so whatever. What would increase the likelihood of buying from them is if they would get rid of that god forsaken marketplace crap, or at the very least make it so the 'exclude marketplace' checkbox was sticky. I find having to click that every single time to be infuriating and it has pushed me toward Mouser despite DigiKey having a far superior parametric search and sorting engine.

author: Bobertsawesome
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 09:50:50 pm
content: Well they are just moving into their new fancy warehouse. My order last week was in 2 shipments with the note that they are still transferring items. My guess is it's all part of a marketing team refresh into this new automated ecosystem they have. They surely have been focusing more on their YouTube community page. I "won" a goodie bag from a contest they had a month or so ago (I say "won" because it was a 5-winner prize and exactly 5 people including me entered).But yes I concur that these companies spend silly amounts of money on rebranding. Like millions for a firm to come in and make a more basic logo, taglines, etc. Digikey is still privately owned though so no worries about major corp BS yet.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 10:48:33 pm
content: Logos have to evolve over time. This one is not particularly fancy or interesting, but that's been the trend in graphics design for over a decade now, so that's pretty average.All this flat and minimalist stuff. But I've seen more boiring - many companies have changed their logo to something with just their name using an arial font or very similar. At least Digikey used a relatively "fancy" font, that's surprising.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:01:18 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 18, 2023, 10:48:33 pmNo they don't. Not one single customer or potential customer of Digikey cares about the logo.They do care that their website works well, but IME this has been noticeably declining over the last year or so. Last couple of times I've done a big order it's been so bad I nearly gave up and went to Mouser.They do care about having useful new features that save them time, which haven't been forthcoming for some time. (e.g. easy ordering of Jellybean components).

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:08:35 pm
content: While I agree that simplifying the logo often is better but this one looks bland and font is awful IMHO.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:14:03 pm
content: If they just removed the ellipse from old logo, IMHO it would be an order of magnitude better than this and would remain recognizable too. Dunno why but this font fells really uncanny to me.

author: Benta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:26:13 pm
content: I've been through this a few times in my career at companies I've worked at, and it's got very little (=nothing) to do with customer relations or image.What happens is that there's a new owner, a top management shakeup, a new CEO, whatever. It's all at the top level.This results in a new "Company Strategy", "Mission Statement", "Focus", restructuring etc.In this, a new logo is obviously necessary to stoke the new CEO's ego, and erect her/his monument for the future. Usually costs several million $ (all documentation, brochures, signs, exhibition material, products, packaging, you name it has to be changed).If the new management is smart (very rare), nothing much happens except a bit of pep-talk at a company get-together (*). Unfortunately, it mostly results in months of chaos, insecurity, bad performance towards customers etc.So, as a general warning to all: if someone you deal with changes their logo, look around for other suppliers.(*) this applies to companies already running well where the employees know what to do. Others will die by themself.

author: Tomorokoshi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:31:53 pm
content: Contrast with:https://www.ge.com/news/reports/the-initials-of-a-friend-a-history-of-ges-iconic-monogram-logoNow, Motorola has a really good logo for quite some time. Then the MBA gang got involved and managed to come up with forgettable variations of ON Semiconductor, Freescale, onsemi, etc. after splitting things off. Remind me of how much of the cell phone market Motorola retains?Hewlett-Packard splitting up into separate businesses also managed to come up with nondescript names and uninspiring logos.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:32:23 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 18, 2023, 10:48:33 pmWhy?I really don't understand the appeal of change for the sake of change. Take for example the General Electric 'meatball' logo, it has remained unchanged for over a century, it is instantly recognizable and personally I've always found it attractive, it would be stupid to spend effort "evolving" it. Or Mitsubishi, the 3-pointed logo originally represented an airplane propeller because that's what the company made at the time, it has remained unchanged for decades. It's a logo, its sole purpose is to be a recognizable symbol, it doesn't have to represent anything specifically related to what the company is currently doing.*edit: Ok somebody posted something about the GE logo while I was typing this and technically I guess it has evolved over time but the changes are very subtle, largely just coloring and the thickness of the strokes. It's still the same recognizable logo for over a century.

author: Benta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:40:52 pm
content: Quote from: Tomorokoshi on May 18, 2023, 11:31:53 pmThat's irrelevant. All the examples you mention were divisions being sold off. We're talkind rebranding existing companies here.

author: Tomorokoshi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:50:38 pm
content: Quote from: Benta on May 18, 2023, 11:40:52 pmActually, it's completely relevant. See, for instance, how the different GE units retained the base GE logo. There was no reason that when Motorola split up, that they couldn't have split into "Motorola Semiconductor", "Motorola Communications", "Motorola Computers" or what not. Even though they would have independent management. However, that is all a separate topic of whether they should have split up at all.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 18, 2023, 11:52:01 pm
content: Quote from: Tomorokoshi on May 18, 2023, 11:50:38 pmIt's possible there were legal reasons, I don't know anything about the split but I think that was what happened with HP, one part of the company had legal rights to the HP name and logo, the one that became Agilent did not.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 12:15:58 am
content: Quote from: Tomorokoshi on May 18, 2023, 11:50:38 pmwith the split they became independent public companies, why would they retain the name Motorola if they are no longer part of Motorola?

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 12:56:21 am
content: When split happens, keeping the same name for derivatives becomes confusing, especially over time. The are cases when what you think as a single company or brand are completely different independent things. Take for example Daewoo shitshow. Still a lot of different products sold under that name and logo when original company gone bust more than 2 decades ago. And after doing extensive research, you'd be very confused about who makes what. Or take OSRAM LED bulbs which have nothing to do with OSRAM for many hears. Philips monitors and TVs are not Philips at allhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPV_Technology

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 02:26:05 am
content: Rebranding is common amongst insecure CEO's that need to feel power and in control. It's a huge waste of money IMHO, expensive therapy.One company I worked at, we did the new logo design (because only Engineering had Photoshop) and generated all the output files. Next morning CEO comes in and wants to look at it in Photoshop, makes a few tweaks and leaves.Turns out he started using HIS files meanwhile business cards, coffee cups, signs etc all had the first logo designPeople flipped out- but a neurotic CEO does as he pleases. It was funny seeing two new logos in use.But let's celebrate the new big warehouse? With the new big markup Digi-Key has had over the past year. Their prices are up, way above competitors especially for small 1,10,100-lot which was what grew the company, Ron Stordahl the founder catered to the small orders because they are related to big orders. Understood by us but not the exec's.And they've decimated their through-hole parts stock. They offer no shipment dates, like Mouser does. I could go on.Between all this and the kludgy website, I'm buying elsewhere. And we have to pay for the high interest loans for the big new warehouse? Where's the stock, my MCU is still 147 weeks out?!?!? It's all so tiresome.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 02:27:55 pm
content: Quote from: floobydust on May 19, 2023, 02:26:05 amwhy waste space in the warehouse on through-hole parts of few is buying them, and they just expire?if they can't get a date or stock from the manufacturer how should they give you a date or sell any?

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 02:59:05 pm
content: Seems kinda silly to open a new warehouse with a big logo branded on the side of it only to change the company logo 8 months later, but I'm not paid to be a CEO...

author: porter
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 04:46:32 pm
content: Maybe a name change is in the works as well.

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 06:33:25 pm
content: Quote from: james_s on May 18, 2023, 09:12:59 pmIn DigiKey's defense, the new logo certainly does not suggest they hired someone expensive to design it.

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 08:51:10 pm
content: To my taste the prior logo was visually more unique, although harder to read.Just for posterity, attached is the old logo. The king is dead. Long live the king!

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 09:04:48 pm
content: I don't blame them, for the sake of the workers, sometimes you see the company logo too much and it gets obnoxious

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 09:43:27 pm
content: If they had done what almost everyone else does these days, they would have come up with this:No doubt some will prefer it, actually, but as far as being memorable and unique, not so much.

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 09:58:00 pm
content: They should've had a contest for the new logo design, prizes for the top 10 or so. Just to have fun with customers, even if they all get rejected/overruled in the end. I have seen some companies do this and it was better than using graphics arts professionals that are clueless about the company to come up funky text. The mid-80's logo was exciting lol.In the new very big warehouse, where are the staff facilities, lunch room, games room, place to sit down for a while?The loading bays, and I've worked in some, right next to the boxing conveyors... get freezing cold and dry in winter, ESD central.Is there more to life than Amazon-tier mega-distribution?Do they have any giveaways? Cheeseball coffee cup? Advertise on EEVblog? Take the heat for their mediocre website?Quote from: langwadt on May 19, 2023, 02:27:55 pmIt's not about the warehouse size, this is cave man gronk has big warehouse lol.As Ron Stordahl stated, he found the engineers doing DIY hobby stuff at home, will at work spec Digi-Key part numbers in BoM's, so they ended up getting their foot in the door for big orders, larger builds.I'd looked for through-hole 7-seg LEDs and DIP-16 sockets for repairs, pretty much gone now.And you can tell Digi-Key has stale parts, no surplus section (aside from semi's to Rochester), no blowout pricing deals, no bait and loss leader products that I can see.Quote from: langwadt on May 19, 2023, 02:27:55 pmOther distributors not only had stock of many items, but also give order dates so I can at least gauge when stock might be available. Digi-Key gives nothing. They used to give dates. Going there to design in, is no longer possible as far as the part's lifecycle or if it's been on order for months etc. because it's masked.

author: thm_w
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 10:28:00 pm
content: Slightly more interesting:https://www.grandforksherald.com/news/minnesota/thief-river-falls-man-charged-in-death-of-digi-key-employee-man-used-sign-to-strike-victimhttps://trftimes.com/news/22223/trf-man-charged-with-murder-outside-of-digi-keyWas murdered but outside of the digikey warehouse.Quote from: tom66 on May 19, 2023, 02:59:05 pmlol come on man, thats such a small thing, digikey revenue is 3 billion dollars. Some thousand dollars on a sign is nothing.Also possible at some companies, they don't even bother updating the sign.

author: rsjsouza
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 10:39:19 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on May 19, 2023, 09:43:27 pmSilicon, I think you used the wrong palette that does not conform to the new web fancy school of design. Such new logo would be something like this.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2023, 10:43:30 pm
content: Ahah.This is arm's black logo:https://www.arm.com/-/media/global/logos/Arm-logo-black-pms432.svg

author: Siwastaja
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2023, 09:03:45 am
content: Quote from: rsjsouza on May 19, 2023, 10:39:19 pmGreat logo, here's my take at whole new website design for Digikey.

author: voltsandjolts
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 20, 2023, 09:40:30 am
content: Oh-oh.They removed the - from digi-key.What's the chances that all my Altium library links stop working in six months time

author: EPAIII
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2023, 10:04:28 am
content: Several million? Well, I guess I can believe that for a company as big as DigiKey. Personally I would never do such a thing, but I too have seen it happen. And, IMHO, in all the cases the old logo was a lot better.When I decided that I was a company (of one) I also wanted a logo. Did it myself so it only cost a few hours. That was around 20 years ago and I see no reason to change it.As far as DigiKey vs Mouser or any others, what counts for me is availability and price. I don't even notice the logos.Quote from: Benta on May 18, 2023, 11:26:13 pm

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2023, 12:13:37 pm
content: I dont care about the logo, i wish they had instead spent time fixing minor website annoyance.Like letting you have default search options, like having In Stock and Exclude marketplace set by default.OrFix the annoying thing where (if you have purchased enough $ from digikey to get custom discounted prices) you can't see all volume prices because your custom prices show by default and they don't include all the price breakdowns for the part. eg, part has 1k price but your discounted price list don't have the 1k breakdown, so you cant see it unless clicking back to standard pricing.OrAdd a tickbox to only show parts with over x qty in stock so i dont have to order by QTY and lose my order by price.

author: HwAoRrDk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2023, 05:12:59 pm
content: Quote from: Siwastaja on May 20, 2023, 09:03:45 amAhahaha, I worked with a design agency once about 15 years ago whose website was basically just that, except white text on black! It was so minimalist it was painful.

author: MarkS
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: May 20, 2023, 09:14:31 pm
content: It looks positively stupid. It gives me 1980's Macintosh Chicago font vibes and not the Truetype variant either. It looks like someone in marketing let their 8 year old design the new logo.

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2023, 06:28:49 pm
content: I was wrong- there was a giveaway of some Digi-Key merchandise celebrating their 50th year in business. Oh but wait it's the OLD logo... loser lol.The big new warehouse apparently has some restaurants and on-site health clinic so it's not all a bot shop.I agree the new logo is lacklustre, primitive and boring but is the hyphen there or not? I have to delete it from BOM and CADD libraries for the vendor name? Erase all Internet references to the "-"It's like a one character programming language feud started over the "="Still looking forward to being able to sort by voltage or less than/greater than for some component categories on the website.

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2023, 08:27:35 am
content: I honestly like the new logo a lot more of the old one.It was next to unreadable, not giving a real identity and looked really cheap.The new one, if not great, I find quite decent, and at least they eschewed the "generic sans-serif" disease of many other brands.It's quite normal for big brands to go for a logo and visual language update every now and then.Where I work, we did that in 2018, with, I must say, quite good results.Among other changes, the logo (very iconic and dating to the early 80's - the original one dated to the late 1800's) was not radically updated: a change of a couple of degrees in the slant of its graphics elements, to make it more suitable for low res displays and easier to anti-alias for higher resolution ones.

author: mikeselectricstuff
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2023, 08:51:52 am
content: Quote from: newbrain on May 22, 2023, 08:27:35 amWhat results exactly ? More customers, more profit , better service?

author: newbrain
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2023, 09:14:23 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on May 22, 2023, 08:51:52 amAll of those three indicators improved.I'm not the one that can assign causes and effects and many were of course at play in the last 5 years.I would say it did not hurt, and our logo is, as said, so iconic that I do not expect it to really change for the coming future.The new visual language is also more pleasant for us working with it.In fact, with "good results" I was thinking more of the aesthetic side than the impact on the bottom line.Are these changes absolutely needed? Probably not, but branding is an important part of how a large firm presents itself on the market.Disregarding, if not disparaging, marketing and branding, as many here seem to do, is, IMHO, a bit naïve.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2023, 02:00:09 pm
content: I think this is something inherently human.Something new, even if it is just a logo, sparks curiosity.One thing with Digikey is interesting: I barely noticed the dash. It is not relevant when spoken, but is often a hindrance when typing, since especially mobile, the dash is often a special character.Since noone would say "digi dash key", ditching the dash officially seems to be a smart move.Also, looking at the wayback machine, there essentially always waswww.digi-key.comandwww.digikey.com, the former redirecting to the latter since at least 10 years now. So why expect broken URLs now?

author: tom66
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2023, 03:44:10 pm
content: Quote from: newbrain on May 22, 2023, 08:27:35 amAs logo designs go it's fairly inoffensive and I tend to agree the old one was a bit, err, "overdone".That said I think it's a bit odd to stray so far from a logo that has been the same for quite some time. Maybe it would have been better to modernise the badge design, perhaps removing the small "corporation" text and de-bossing the badge so it looks more flat and modern.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 22, 2023, 11:05:20 pm
content: Quote from: newbrain on May 22, 2023, 08:27:35 amAgreed.As I illustrated with the arm logo (now all lowercase, arial font). It could be anything. When going from ARM to arm, they should have gone all the way and renamed themselves "arm & leg".Quote from: newbrain on May 22, 2023, 08:27:35 amYes.

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2023, 12:06:30 am
content: Quote from: newbrain on May 22, 2023, 08:27:35 amUsually because the higher-ups need to justify themselves as actually 'doing something'.But doing something that is actually useful for the company is complicated and takes real effort.So they do the easy stuff instead. Things that need decisions but have little consequences, like the colors and look of logos.Instead of things that need decisions which will cause large company changes that could get them fired or make them look bad if they make a mistake.It's human nature, but engineers see right through it.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 23, 2023, 12:12:54 am
content: Quote from: tom66 on May 22, 2023, 03:44:10 pmI don't particularly care about the logo, I care about the fact that they're wasting time and money "fixing" a logo that wasn't broken when there are other actual problems that need fixing. I usually see rebranding as a red flag, I've seen quite a few retail stores rebrand shortly before floundering.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 05, 2023, 03:12:55 pm
content: There are many fine examples of terrible logo changes, and if a contest would be made to find the worst of the worst, the top place would be awarded to General Motors.Runner up: OnSemi, or should I write instead, onsemi.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 05, 2023, 03:41:22 pm
content: Quote from: james_s on May 18, 2023, 09:12:59 pmThat's easy if you see it from the canopy management PoV:things are static or declining; bonuses are at riskcanopy management either doesn't know how to improve that or cannot improve thatMBAs/conslutants are appointed to investigate and suggest changesthe net result is no different to 2but Something must be done + this (new coat of paint) is Something => this must be doneBasically pissing about with branding is an orange flag to employees and customers. Engineers are intelligent; they recognise orange flags, even if MBAs think they don't.

author: bsfeechannel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 05, 2023, 07:15:52 pm
content: Quote from: Bobertsawesome on May 18, 2023, 05:12:20 pmI like the color.

author: AndyBeez
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 05, 2023, 07:37:29 pm
content: I remember when British Airways decided to paint 'art' on the tails of our fleet because the union flag branding was regarded as, in today's speak, not woke. Huge mistake.Branding is so hard to get right and so much easier to make a fortune getting it very wrong.Digikey? Kind of reminds me of the Radio Spares logo which has not changed in decades. Maybe that was the mission.

author: TimNJ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2023, 03:13:02 am
content: No problem with the new logo, really. If I were them, I probably would’ve just flattened out the old logo, which still had that Microsoft Office 2007 embossed effect thing going on. The oval was sort of a defining part. If they wrapped the new font in an oval, that might’ve kept it a little more on brand.But meh, it’s mostly a nothing burger to me.

author: TimNJ
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2023, 06:17:18 pm
content: There, I fixed it?

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2023, 06:45:02 pm
content: Marty start the DeLorean! go back to a time when people had some creativity and the ability to be edgy lol.Digi-Key was plain text 1974 then 1975 added the DIP IC. I like the late 80's striped one.

author: schmitt trigger
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 06, 2023, 07:13:03 pm
content: Oooooh, The early 70s. Back when the DigiKey catalog consisted of a pair of pages.I have some old magazines somewhere. Let me see if I can take a picture.

author: I wanted a rude username
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 07, 2023, 05:07:02 am
content: That typeface ... bastard child of Chicago and .com era zaniness ... somehow makes the logo look more dated than the previous logo.

author: floobydust
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 07, 2023, 05:15:07 am
content: Ahhhhh it's like a slasher flick title quit showing it ahhhhhh

author: ebastler
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2023, 05:36:52 pm
content: Quote from: 3roomlab on July 08, 2023, 04:34:12 pmIt would not have occurred to me to buy them from Digikey. But otherwise, what are you surprised about? That's what good quality beamsplitters cost if you buy them from Linos (now part of Qioptiq, now part of Excelitas).Looks like Digikey charge you exactly the same price as when buying directly from the manufacturer,https://www.qioptiq-shop.com/en/Precision-Optics/Beamsplitters/.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 08, 2023, 10:32:02 pm
content: Yep, and I don't even find that expensive for this kind of stuff.Quality optics is not cheap anyway.

author: fastbike
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: July 11, 2023, 12:28:36 am
content: Of more concern is the changes to the product labels. The important info (i.e. manufacturer part ref) and other info is too small. There's heaps of white space and too much room taken up by the Digikey logo and address. A backwards step.

author: VK3DRB
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 13, 2023, 07:37:02 am
content: Quote from: mikeselectricstuff on May 18, 2023, 11:01:18 pmNo, if the logo looks like others on Chrome tabs (and it does), it can be harder to pick it out from other logos in Chrome tabs when are busy with 20 or so web pages open at the same time. So it is important in a small way, but not so much as to launch a jihad against Digikey over.

author: Dan N
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: July 25, 2023, 09:20:08 pm
content: Saw today there is no longer a USPS First Class shipping option. Going to miss that (was $4.99 last month, $2 back in the day).

author: Veteran68
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 25, 2023, 11:30:28 pm
content: Quote from: VK3DRB on July 13, 2023, 07:37:02 amPsssh, "20 or so." Them's amateur numbers. I can't remember when I had only 20 tabs open. It's been literally years.Current screenshot of this browser session. First icon with the 325 number? That's the number of tabs open in this one window. The tabs you can see at the top are exactly one faveicon wide.

author: Ranayna
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 26, 2023, 01:01:04 pm
content: You *have* heard about this amazing thing that browsers can do, called "bookmarks"?With so little to see, do you really know whats in each tab?Also, at least with Firefox, it has been my experience that i need to reload an open tab anyway after the browsing session is resumed to refresh it.

author: Veteran68
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 26, 2023, 04:28:44 pm
content: Quote from: Ranayna on July 26, 2023, 01:01:04 pmSure have. I have hundreds of bookmarks too. If I bookmarked every tab, I'd have... thousands I guess.Quote from: Ranayna on July 26, 2023, 01:01:04 pmFor those first hundred or so visible, I usually recognize the icon. If not, or if there is no icon, hovering the mouse pointer over a tab shows a tooltip of its title. But mostly I use tab management extensions that quickly let me search, sort, save, and otherwise navigate lots of tabs pretty easily.I seldom exceed 400 tabs, which might sound like a lot to some, but I've seen others with 1000+ tabs open at a given time. Makes me look like an amateur.